Back-to-back Blue Moons happen only every 37 years, so put on your dancing shoes and get ready to howl at the Twice in a Blue Moon Dance Party, March 31, at Crown Hall in Mendocino, a benefit fundraiser for the non-profit Kelley House Museum. Dance to the rock, blues and funky boogie music of the Mighty T-Bones, the premier dance band on the Mendocino Coast. A [...]
Sunday Afternoon With Our Emergency Medical Responders February 25 4 - 5 p.m. Mendocino Volunteer Firefighters cliff rescue PHOTO: David Russell Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a first responder on our wild and beautiful Mendocino Coast? Getting the call, being first on the scene? Rappelling down crumbling cliffs to rescue an ab diver? Or mounting a Jet Ski in fifty-degree [...]
Whether you have lived on the North Coast for a lifetime or you are just passing through it is clear that this part of the world, with all its attendant beauty, can be a dangerous place. The early days were marked by various accidents, many of which happened in the context of the lumber industry. Inside the mill near whirring saws and slippery belts, working the [...]
When created in 1865, the historic Little River school district had an average daily attendance of nine pupils. By 1874, a larger school building was needed and it was built on the east side of the road which became Highway 1, on the north side of School House Creek. In 1877, with a school population of 70, a new school was built on a site about [...]
by Katy Tahja, Kelley House Museum docent In exploring the archives of the Kelley House Museum, I discovered a list of business establishments existing in Mendocino in 1883. Here is a sample of the variety of commercial enterprises, which formed the business district 135 years ago, as listed in the Mendocino Beacon. There were seven hotels in the town, one of which was “dry” serving no [...]
If you’ve ever been to the Kelley House Museum, you no doubt have seen the 150-year-old wedding dress on display in the front hall. The two-piece brown plaid taffeta jacket and skirt belonged to Phoebe Allen Marsan, who married John Peter Marsan in Kansas in the late 1860s. Their only child, David Allen Marsan, was born March 19, 1870, in Ossawatomie, Kansas. The young family headed [...]