We all have to die sometime. If you’d like to see how some of your fellow representatives of humanity addressed this fact, and hear their stories, consider joining the Cemetery Tour, offered by the Kelley House Museum on Saturday, October 1st, beginning at 6:00 p.m. Your tour guide at the cemetery will be none other than “J.D. Johnson.” Who was J.D. Johnson (note use of past [...]
Enjoy a delicious dinner in the MacCallum House Dining Room or the Grey Whale Bar Cafe on your own schedule Wednesday, October 26th. The MacCallum House will donate proceeds from the bar and food to the Kelley House Museum! We are certain that long time Mendocino teacher Alma Mendosa, far right in this photo, would have wanted you to get a group together for the evening! [...]
One of the experiences which should be common to all childhoods is the wonder of witnessing the sprouting of a seed. Many of us recall the anticipation and fun of placing a dried bean between the glass wall of a jar and a damp paper towel, or similar material, and placing that jar in a space where light and air could reach it. In a few [...]
Cherie Christiansen, host of the KZYX Farm and Garden Show and founder of the Seed Exchange at the Mendocino Farmer’s Market, will be the speaker Sunday, September 25 at the Kelley House Sunday Afternoon With… program in conjunction with the current exhibit When Farm to Table was Everyday. She will talk about why seeds—the beginning of any food crop—are essential to the health of our food, [...]
By Sarah Nathe If you went down in the woods some days starting in the 1880s, you would not find teddy bears having a picnic. The picnickers were much more likely to be members of the well-off families from the communities along the coast. People who didn’t actually have to work in the woods thought it was great fun to go out and eat in them. [...]
Join J.D. Johnson, Mendocino's pioneer builder and undertaker for a Mendocino Cemetery Tour. In the 1880s, he could house you in this life and the next! On October 1st he will introduce you to some of Mendocino's famous and not-so-famous historic characters at their final resting places. Be at the Kelley House, 45007 Albion St., Mendocino, at 6:00PM Saturday, October 1. The tour begins at 6:30 [...]
By Martha Davis Wagner And, now on to Caspar; supposedly among the most historic apples in that area were those planted by the Canadian, John Simpson Ross who became well known as a traveling North Coast minister. Reverend Ross served frequently in Eliza Kelley’s Baptist Church in Mendocino. He purchased acreage in Caspar in 1870 north of town on the west side of the then Coast [...]