By Martha Davis Wagner (Note: Long time Kelley House supporter and patron, Martha wrote this article in 2006 for a newsletter. We re-print it here in conjunction with our current museum exhibit, “When Farm to Table was Everyday.”) Apples have been growing throughout Mendocino County since the 1800’s, both commercially and as family sustenance. About 1847 good-named varieties became available. Mendocino as well as its closest [...]
Products & Producers of the Mendocino Coast Friday August 26 through Monday November 21, 2016 Members Preview Reception, Thursday, August 25, 4:30-6:00PM The museum is open Friday through Monday, 11AM - 3PM There are few things as delicious, and generally healthful, as something you grew yourself, cared for and labored over, and then brought to the table to enjoy with family and friends! If it was a [...]
The Kelley House Museum’s new exhibit “When Farm to Table Was Every Day” presents the history of agriculture on the Mendocino coast, from the perspective of putting food on the table. The exhibit may first be viewed at a “Members Only” reception, Thursday evening, August 25th, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. at the Kelley House. The exhibit will be open to the public on the following [...]
By Katy Tahja In a recent Kelley House Calendar column on the book “Big River Was Dammed” by Francis Jackson, I wrote a bit about river drives of logs on Big River. Reading Mendocino County Remembered: An Oral History, which is a collection of oral history interviews of county residents born before 1900 and compiled by Bruce Levene, William Bradd, Lana Krasner, Gloria Petrykowski and Rosalie [...]
By Katy Tahja If you didn’t know any better and were not noticing the spelling, you might think “Big River Was Dammed” is about the local watershed’s dark, disturbing history. But this book is about the 27 water-control structures erected by loggers on the river back in the boom days. The dam closest to the mill on the Big River flat was 11 miles upstream; the [...]