Sports historian and longtime Westport resident Steve Cardullo will speak on “Sunday Baseball in Fort Bragg.” His talk will cover the history of baseball and its movement westward after the Civil War, the development of Sunday Baseball and some of the standout players on the Fort Bragg loggers team.
Sunday Afternoon With Sandra Kearney, Discussing the Noyo Women's Rowing Crew February 12, 2017 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sandra Kearney will talk about the Noyo Women's Rowing Crew and what contemporary women on the Coast do for fun and recreation. This talk is in conjunction with the Museum's new exhibit, "Fun and Games: Mendocino at Play," running now through March 27.
Sarah Bodnar and Gowan Batist are the women who put eating locally to the test for an entire year in 2013. They went entirely off the "industrial food system" and ate only those foods they could procure locally. As noted in an article in the Ukiah Daily Journal in February 2014, the experiment challenged the "inner pioneer woman." Bodnar and Batist will speak about the experience [...]
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, [...]
On Sunday July 31st, at 3 p.m. the Kelley House Museum will present a reprise of Bruce Levene’s digital scrapbook of music, photographs, graphics, spoken voice and poetry from Mendocino in the 1970s. The revised two hour presentation, now titled “Good Hope,” contains works by 25 musicians, 6 poets, 5 interview excerpts, 6 Mendocino News Service/KMFB excerpts, 17 known photographers and artists plus numerous graphics. Due [...]
Sunday, June 26th, 2016, Lorraine Hee-Chorley, local author and resident historian of the Chinese community, will present a discussion of the history of the Chinese in Mendocino at the Kelley House Museum's "Sunday Afternoon With . . ." program. From the popular "Images of America" series Arcadia book, written by Ms. Hee-Chorley, and titled Chinese in Mendocino County, we have the following: "Lorraine Hee-Chorley, [is] a [...]
Sunday, June 12th, 2016 the Kelley House presents a talk by Dr. Elmano Costa of California State University, Stanislaus titled "Hooked to America - the Whaling Industry's Influence on Portuguese Immigration." Dr. Costa has been a professor of Teacher Education and the Director of Portuguese Studies at CSU Stanislaus since 1995. Dr. Costa has personal experience as an immigrant, having come to the Central Valley of [...]
Join us on Sunday, March 20th, at 4:00 p.m. for our next 'Sunday Afternoon With . . . Matthew Ritenour.' Matt directed the film, Impact of the Frolic, which has been featured as part of our 'Dark &Stormy Night: Mendocino Coast Shipwrecks' exhibit. Matthew Ritenour is a director and cinematographer. His anthropological education brings a rare perspective to the craft of film making. Blending the best [...]
The Frolic Shipwreck: Birth of Pioneer Mendocino Sunday, February 28, 2016 Location Escola Room of the Museum Time: 4:00-5:00PM Cost: $7 non-members; $5 members Robert Becker discusses the wreck of the Frolic in 1850 and how that led to the birth of pioneer Mendocino. Robert discusses the relative mayhem of those days in California; and how pioneers made sense of unexpected opportunities. Robert Becker is a [...]
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 [...]