Kathryn Kanjo wants to tell the story — ok, one story — of Orange County.

That she wants to do that as part of her new job, as director of the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art, means she’ll be telling the story mostly via pictures and objects. It also means the story she’ll tell will center on the county’s environmental and physical transformation since the start of the last century.

A lot of other Orange County plot points — surfing, the rise and fall of malls, “Housewives,” citrus packing, Mendez v. Westminster, all things Disney, etc. — figure to be told by others because they’re not central to the newly merged collection at the local museum of art.

Still, Kanjo is stoked.

“One of the things that’s exciting about the museum, at this moment, is that it is bringing togeth

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