This column is a further exploration into the history of log rafts on the Mendocino Coast and the topic will continue for the next few weeks. When a historian finds all kinds of interesting historical facts while researching, and it just won’t fit in one story, the topic becomes a series. Steam ship towing a log raft out of Noyo Harbor near Fort Bragg. (Virginia Lycan [...]
One of the dilemmas I get into as a historian is that I start out with an idea for a Kelley House column… “I’m going to write about tugboats and log rafts…” then when researching I get side-tracked and diverted by other interesting facts. Pretty soon I’ve got more than enough research for three or four columns, all relevant to my original search. So, if readers [...]
While a very few nice positive things could be said about state representative John B. Sanford of Ukiah 110 years ago… “He was a good businessman, a man of faith, he served his community as a teacher and principal”… the man had a colossal fault in his character. Sanford would turn livid at the suggestion that woman should get to vote. A 1914 anti-suffrage cartoon by [...]
What in the world are the women in this photograph doing? Young women practicing their broom maneuvers. Pictured (not in order): Harriet “Hattie” Powell (Peggy Quaid’s great grandmother), Grace Monroe, Minnie Gates, Maggie Arthur, Marnie Conway, Mary Bowlin, Miss Reed, Sutie Howins, Anna Westover, Lily Kimball, Miss Sawyer, Estell Taylor, Rose Purcell. (Photo courtesy of Peggy Quaid, Kelley House Museum) This is one of four curious [...]