"I love this house. There's no question that it's the focal point of our family, of all our traditions. It's like a museum, a museum that's always open. Artifacts, furniture, family--they're all here. And I grew up with the history around me. I lived it. I think that's why I don't feel any confusion about my role as a modern person as well as a person who's part of old tradition."
"Stephen Michael Rios, 37, former Marine, former counsel to a governor's commission and overseer of a local family tradition that is nearly two centuries old. He is a man who lives and works in the 20th Century, but feels a powerful responsibility to keep vital the traditions of the 18th and 19th."
Stephen Michael Rios, a 37-year-old attorney and former Marine, resides in the Rios Adobe of San Juan Capistrano, a state landmark built in 1794 and the oldest house in California's oldest residential neighborhood. His office occupies what was once his great-great-great-grandfather's kitchen. The Rios family has continuously inhabited the adobe for generations, and Rios views it as a living museum preserving family artifacts, furniture, and history. Born in Santa Ana, Rios spent his childhood split between the city and the adobe, where his father Dan Rios, a county sheriff's investigator and later marshal, maintained the property. Rios feels no conflict between his modern professional role and his responsibility to preserve the family's 18th and 19th-century traditions.
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