December 2024

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Decembers in Humboldt Have Always Been Cursed

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: A Eureka Sailor’s Memories of Naval Life in Honolulu, Just After the Attack on Pearl Harbor

November 2024

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Little Chapel Was a Waterfront Home for Eureka’s Lost and Forgotten

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The 1964 Christmas Flood Wiped the Town of Klamath From the Map

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Doomed County of Klamath Began at School Road in McKinleyville, and Too Many of Its Residents Chose a Dark Path Through Life

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Three Generations of Freshwater’s Pioneering Coeur Family — Grocers, Athletes and Soldiers

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Building Out Humboldt’s First Telephone Network, Town by Town and Switchboard by Switchboard

October 2024

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Eureka’s Groundbreaking, World-Famous Baby Orchestra

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: ‘Too Bad White Man Find This Place.’ Or, Requa at the Beginning of the Last Century

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: A Girl’s Five Days at Sea on the Whaler Lynn Ann

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Salmon Canneries of the Lower Eel River and the Death of a Fishery

September 2024

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Japanese Ambassador’s Southern Humboldt Reception Party

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: In 1908, Our Charming Seaside Town of Luffenholtz Was Destroyed by Wildfire

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Crannell Gang! A Story About a Group of Teenage Would-Be Ne’er-Do-Wells Looking for Ways to Raise a Ruckus in the Late 1940s

Humboldt Ghost Town Added to National Register of Historic Places

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Depression Years at the Mitchell School, Way Out in the Boondocks of Blue Lake

August 2024

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Holmes-Eureka Massacre, When Eureka Police and Vigilantes Shot Striking Lumber Workers Dead

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: He Turned Humboldt County Into the ‘Holland of America’ With His Flower Farms … Until the Business Went Bankrupt (100 Years Ago)

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Slaughterhouses of Early Humboldt County and the Rise of an Industry Fueled By Beef

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Story of Five Families. Or, How World Events Pushed Enterprising Youngsters From One Tiny Community in the Italian Alps to Put Down Roots in Ferndale

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Humboldt Brewery Was a Beer Behemoth in the Early 1900s, Surviving Both Fire and Prohibition, But it Was Killed by Monopoly Capitalism and the Public’s Poor Taste in Beer

July 2024

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: A Eureka Boys’ Group Made the 510-Mile Walk to Portland’s Lewis & Clark Exposition in 1905 and Arrived as Heroes

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Those Daring, Quasi-Suicidal Young Men in Their Flying Balloons

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Who Was A.W. Way? Yachtsman, Statesman and Namesake of One of the County’s Prettiest Parks

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Queen Sequoia Ruled the Three-Day Bacchanalia That Eureka Threw in 1895 For Basically No Reason at All

June 2024

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Bottlin’ Monroe Family! They May Have Been Indifferent Businessmen, Many of Them, But They Made Heavenly Sodas, Ciders and Vinegars

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Amity Birthday Club, Humboldt County’s First Black Civic Association

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Boys Are Horrible, and Nowhere Was That More True Than at the Boy Scout Camp at Tish Tang in the 1950s

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Remember Humboldt Bay’s Once-Mighty Shark and Flounder Fisheries? And: Can You Identify the Weird Fishes That Baffled Early White Settlers?

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Babes in Benbow! A Summer Job at Humboldt’s Glamorous Resort Hotel Sounded Nifty to One Eureka Girl in 1945. But Then…

May 2024

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: ‘Let’s Go!’ Eureka’s National Guard Unit Served With Distinction During World War II. Not Everyone Made it Home

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Festa na Fé! More Than a Hundred Years of Portuguese Heritage in the Eel River Valley

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Humboldt County Teacher Who Flew Before the Wright Brothers, and the Forgotten Precious Blood Catholic School in Rohnerville That Hired Him

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: When Grids Collide! Or, Have You Ever Wondered Why Eureka’s Street System Was Laid Out So Strangely?

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