The Frolic Shipwreck: Birth of Pioneer Mendocino Sunday, February 28, 2016 Location Escola Room of the Museum Time: 4:00-5:00PM Cost: $7 non-members; $5 members Robert Becker discusses the wreck of the Frolic in 1850 and how that led to the birth of pioneer Mendocino. Robert discusses the relative mayhem of those days in California; and how pioneers made sense of unexpected opportunities. Robert Becker is a [...]
By Katy Tahja “A Dark & Stormy Night: Mendocino Coast Shipwrecks…” the current exhibit at the Kelley House, includes information on the first wreck known to have occurred only a few miles north. We refer, of course to the Frolic. To learn much more, plan to come to the Museum February 28 at 4 p.m. to spend a ‘Sunday Afternoon With . . . ‘ Robert [...]
By Martin Simpson “What's in a name?” as the saying goes. Well there’s a lot to learn from a name, especially with regard to geographical locations. The name of cities, towns or “villages” gives the people that live there a sense of place. Even if you’re just passing through, names speak to those locations and their place in time. In the area now occupied by the [...]
By Sarah Nathe Long before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' splashed across the silver screen, another bunch of swashbucklers captured the imagination of Mendocino: Hawaiian love pirates. Staged by Mendocino High School’s Glee Club in March of 1929, “Love Pirates of Hawaii” was an operetta in two acts set in the garden of a girls’ seminary school in Hawaii. It featured alluring young women, U.S. Navy officers [...]
This story was the winning entry in the student category Short Story Contest: "Diamond in the Drink -or- How Did the Wedding Ring End up in the Kelley Pond?" Aftan is a 5th grade student. by Aftan Ashford Fifty years ago in Mendocino town a beautiful young lady was getting married. Two big white, strong, gorgeous horses were pulling the special carriage they had hired. Thump, [...]
This story was the winning entry in the adult category Short Story Contest: "Diamond in the Drink -or- How Did the Wedding Ring End up in the Kelley Pond?" By Barry Bryan I heard about the wedding ring found in the Kelley pond and the contest for best story about how it got there. Sometimes the best story is the truth. It is my ring. I [...]
By Katy Tahja To make a historian’s heart go “pitty-pat” hand her a 104-year-old book called “History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California with Biographical Sketches.” Written by A.O. Carpenter and P.H. Millberry, it comprises 156 pages of history and 887 pages of biographies of 600 citizens who paid to have their stories included. While every man, and a few women, thought they were the most [...]