The Kelley House Board is pleased to announce Anne Cooper has been hired as the first ever Curator of the organization. Instead of an executive director, this new, full time, position will encompass the job of director and archivist responsible for the development and management of the museum. Instead of the old model of a full time executive director and a part time archivist, the Kelley [...]
Back by popular demand! To wrap up the current exhibit Hippies Use the Back Door, the Kelley House will present a repeat of last month's sold out, standing room only, Sunday Afternoon With...sound slideshow on November 15, 2015 at 4:00PM. Bruce Levene will again present “A Mendocino Review”. This video slideshow with sound features music and photographs from an audio recording made at a 1973 Preston [...]
This photograph was part of the Eleanor Sverko Collection but has no identifying information. Eleanor Feodora Stolpe Sverko was born on August 20, 1920. She was the daughter of Finnish immigrants, Johannes (John) and Regina Stolpe who settled in Greenwood/Elk. Many Finnish settled there as well as Comptche to work in the mills. They probably all knew each other. Perhaps this photograph is of a family [...]
To complement the current Kelley House exhibit, “Hippies Use the Back Door,” we excerpt here Tales of Mendocino: The Way We Were, local author Jay Frankston’s 2006 memoir of life here in the late 60s and early 70s. The exhibit runs Fridays through Mondays until November 30. People came here from everywhere, from the east coast, from Chicago, from L.A. Most were getting away from something like [...]
This portrait of a woman in her late 20’s or early 30’s portrays her as a serious person, with a sensible haircut, glasses and an understated pearl necklace. The name on the photograph says “Hazel Pruett.” We are wondering why Hazel’s photograph is in the collection of the Kelley House Museum. Ancestry.com lists a Hazel Pruett born October 8, 1890 in Ukiah to Robert and Cangrada [...]
This photograph looks as if it was taken in the 1920s. It appears to be a performance or presentation at the Company Store in Fort Bragg. What ARE these women up to? Do you know the answer? Can you identify anyone? [kh_mystery_blurb subject="Coneheads"]
On July 26, 2015 for our Sunday Afternoon speaker series, legendary club manager Lee Larsen White presents insight on Toad Hall and the colorful characters and subculture alive and boogie-ing in Mendocino during the 70s. Join us!
Exhibit of the Arrival of the Counter-Culture Starting Friday, July 17 and continuing through November 30, 2015.Members Only Preview night will be held Thursday, July 16, 5:00-7:00PM.The museum is open Friday through Monday, 11AM-3PM Mendocino had been energized by the Bill Zacha art revival and formation of the Mendocino Art Center in the late 1950s. But a new change was on its way in the 1960s [...]
Remarkable Women of Mendocino An exhibit of the remarkable women who shaped helped shape the Mendocino Coast Starting April 24 and continuing through July 16, 2015 The museum is open Friday through Monday, 11AM - 3PM The women of Mendocino were true pioneers. They were a force to be reckoned with, even before getting the right to vote. This exhibit features some of the remarkable women [...]
The Case of the Diamond in the Drink Or How did a Wedding Ring get into Kelley Pond? And the Winners Are... Thirty-one stories were entered in the Kelley House short story contest, as part of the fundraising effort to restore the pond. Each was accompanied by a $25.00 entry fee. Seventeen of the stories were submitted by students from the Mendocino Middle School, sponsored [...]