April 2024

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: In the Early 20th Century, a Weird Wonderland of an Estate Stood on Ryan Slough, and it Was Built By an Eccentric Russian Emigre

If You Have Strong Feelings About Julia Morgan’s ‘Federation Hearthstone,’ a Four-Sided Fireplace in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, You’re Going to Want to Get Your Ass to Sacramento Next Week

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: And Then the Men Came Back; Or, Football, Poverty and Enduring a Bad Marriage in Humboldt State’s Postwar Student Housing

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Studying and Not Studying at Humboldt State During the Second World War, When Young Women Made Up Most All of the Student Body

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Wrecked Russian Tanker Ship That Powered Eureka for a Decade

March 2024

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Shocking Scenes in the Surgery! Following Verbal Set-To Over Zonked-Out Patient, Fisticuffs Fly Between Physicians Falk

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Life in ‘Marine View Terrace,’ Eureka’s World War II-Era Public Housing Complex

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: This Old Political Cartoon Tells You Everything You Need to Know About the Great Eureka Vs. Arcata War For Humboldt State in 1913

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Is Humboldt’s Most Successful Film Actor of All Time … a Ship?

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: When Humboldt’s Votes Swung the Presidential Election and Enraged the Publisher of the Chicago Tribune

February 2024

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Life and Death of a Difficult Woman — Margaret Murray, Klamath Schoolteacher, 1905

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Humboldt People Lost Their Minds — and, in One Case, Their Life — When the First Modern U.S. Navy Did a Float-By Off Our Coast

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Getting Water to Eureka! An Exploration of the False Starts That Finally Led Us to Ruth Lake and the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Definitive History of Eureka’s South Park Racetrack, an Early Locus of Community Fun, Has Yet to Be Written

January 2024

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Incomplete Story of Blind Annie, a Wiyot Woman Who Lived by the Mouth of Elk River a Hundred Years Ago, as Told by a Boy Scout Who Needlessly Attempted to Take Care of Her

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Growing Up at the Clam Beach Inn — Mom’s Chowder, Rowdy Crannell Lumbermen, an Eccentric Museum-Keeper and the Ever-Present Thrill of a Possible Japanese Surprise Attack

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Skiing Horse Mountain! Remembering the Scene’s Golden Era, When it Was Full of People and Fun, Complete With Tow Lines, a Lodge, a Snack Shack and the Hiouska Spirit

Falk, the Abandoned Lumber Town in Headwaters Forest, Officially Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Remembering Sarah. Or, the Life and Times of Humboldt’s First Female Lighthouse Keeper

December 2023

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: All the Good Things Were Offered by Nature. Humboldt Was Once a Horn of Plenty

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: How Did Humboldt Celebrate Christmas in the 19th Century?

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Rolph Shipyards Brought Life and Prosperity to Fairhaven

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: How a Survivor of the Disastrous and Possibly Cannibalistic Greely Expedition Blackmailed His Way Into a Job as a Eureka Weatherman

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Eureka Loggers Basketball Squad Burned Brightly in the 1960-1961 Season

November 2023

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Backwoods Balls! We Used to Drive Way the Hell Out Into the Hills and Dance, Dance, Dance Until it Was Time to Milk the Cows

Humboldt Asian and Pacific Islanders in Solidarity (HAPI) Plan Memorial for Old Town as Part of ‘Eureka Chinatown Project’

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Turkey-Herders of Early Humboldt County

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Rock and Roll is Dead, But This Guy Saw Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page Play the Eureka Muni in 1966 and No One Can Take That Away From Him

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Overland Auto Stage Company — It Was Like a Stagecoach Service but With Cars, and It Could Get You to San Francisco in 23 Hours So Long as It Wasn’t Raining

October 2023

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: In 1881, a Mechanical Genius From Humboldt Invented a Device That Supercharged Logging Operations All Along the West Coast

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Why is There a Japanese Cannon Parked in Front of Arcata Vets’ Hall?

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: RIP Daly’s Department Store — A Locally Owned, Fashion-Forward, Pneumatic Tube-Powered Wonderland That Gave This Girl Her First Shot in Business

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Life and Times of an Early Fortuna Fruit Tree Man

September 2023

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: What One Teen Sax Player Learned Working at a Saucy, Prohibition-Era Old Town Cabaret

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The County’s Exhibition at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair Sounds Spectacular, but Putting it Together and Getting it Back Was Kind of a Pain in the Ass

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Big Thrills and Young Romance! Or, Growing Up Among Eureka’s Many Majestic Midcentury Movie Palaces

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Memories of a Whaling Plant Union Member, 1940

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Infamous Showers Pass Murders, and an Innocent Man Framed by Probably the Most Corrupt District Attorney Ever Seen in Humboldt County

August 2023

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Remembering the Wonderful Arcata Elementary Teachers of the 1880s, and the Horrible Ones, Along With My Schoolchums and the Scrapes We Got Into

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Humboldt County Fashion Options in the 1850s Were Truly Dismal, According to These Dandy Young Men From Pennsylvania

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Trains of Pack Mules Run By Famous Muleteers Opened Up the Humboldt Interior for Mining and Settlement

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Last Days of Chief Lassik

July 2023

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Son of Abolitionist John Brown Ran a Very Successful Humboldt County Sheep Ranch

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Bret Harte Versus the Humboldt Times — the Newspaper Feud That Started With Japes and Jests and Ended Amid Genocide

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Wild, Wild Mattole Valley of the Last Midcentury, and How it Forever Enchanted One Young Boy

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: When the Syrup Extracted From Humboldt Tan Oaks Fueled the West Coast Leather Industry … and the Local Economy

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Growing Up in Crannell, the Lost Company Town Above the Banks of Little River

June 2023

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: A Camping Trip to the Bald Hills, in 1874

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Life and Times of Jim Howard, a Civic Leader in 20th Century Eureka

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Mystery of Frank Winters, Eureka’s Pickle Man