January 2026

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: An Itinerant Bookseller Peddles His Wares Around 1870s Humboldt

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Las Memorias del Gran Fuego — My Immigrant Family Lived in the Dean Victorian When it Caught Fire

The Wiyot Senior Housing Development Behind Eureka City Hall is Officially Underway

The Eureka Chinatown Monument is Coming to First and E Streets, and There’ll be a Groundbreaking Ceremony Next Week

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Day They Floated a Complete Two-Story Victorian Across Humboldt Bay

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Great Fire That Leveled Blue Lake in 1911

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: I Was Waylaid by 500 Razorback Hogs on the Road to Hoopa

December 2025

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Wild River — Life and Loss on the Banks of the Capricious, Destructive Eel

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Let Charity Sweeten the Chalice

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: A Desperate Trek to Iaqua During the Worst Snowstorm Anyone Had Ever Seen

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Snug, the Louvre, the Oberon, and Some Other Violent Logging Bars of Old Old Town

Celebrating ‘The Green Book’: How a Group of Volunteers Cataloged Rich Eureka’s Architectural History and Saved Its Historic Victorians

November 2025

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Eureka Was My University — Or, a Cub Reporter Learns His Trade From the Masters at the Humboldt Times

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Every Day a Feast; Or, Inside the Kitchen at the Korbel Cookhouse

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Poultrymen! Back in the Day There Were Plenty of People Who Made Their Scratch Off Half-Wild Turkeys and Chicken Farms

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: From Troublemaking Eureka Scamp to West Point Cadet to Leader in the Fight Against Pancho Villa — One Eureka Veteran’s Life In and Out of the Service

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Cattle Dogs I Have Known

October 2025

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Who Were the Mawenoks? Remembering Humboldt’s Lost Native American Tribe, Whose Territory Was Along Mad River From Blue Lake to Iaqua

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Glory Days of Weott, and How They Were Brought to an Abrupt End

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: How Ruth Dunn Cared For Humboldt’s Polio-Stricken Children in the Years Before the Vaccine

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Fixing the Earth With Music and Dance

September 2025

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: To Run Dairy Cattle in the Wild and Remote Bear River Watershed, You Needed a Different Kind of Cow

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Memories of Lloyd H. Brubaker, an Early Weirdo in the Mountains of the Mateel

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Lessons Learned and Pies Eaten During a Lifetime of Huckleberry Picking

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Disgrace of Grace Gwinn, a Pretty Mountain Girl Who Could Bear it No Longer

August 2025

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Cement Men of Olden Times, and The Backs They Broke to Build a Concrete Eureka

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Just A Kindergartner Jumping Rope All the Way to the Old Marshall School, Where Generations of Eurekans Learned Their ABC’s

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Fishing at Fernbridge Pool, the Most Famous Salmon Hole in the West

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: A Lebanese Immigrant to Humboldt at the Turn of the Last Century, and His Many Successful Business Ventures

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Remembering ‘Shipwreck,’ King Salmon’s Weird, Nautical-Themed Roadside Attraction

July 2025

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: ELTA-MANIA! The Exploits of the Fastest Woman in America Thrilled Her Hometown of Eureka, But the 1928 Summer Olympics Didn’t Go Exactly According to Plan

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Timber Magnate Henry Neff (‘Pap’) Anderson Was Brained to Death by a Piece of His Own Mill, and His Dream Model Town of ‘Andersonia’ Was Just as Doomed as He Was

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Eureka Business College, Conveniently Located at Second and E Streets, Prepared Generations of Young Humboldters For a Career in Commerce

June 2025

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Wheel-men! In the Gay Nineties, Humboldt Went Gaga For Bicycles

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Summers Spent at Boehne’s Camp in Fort Seward, on the Banks of the Eel

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Visiting the Old Scotia Swimming Hole Was All There Was for We Children of the Depression to Do in the Summer, and it Was More Than Enough

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Ferndale’s Frank Ferguson Had a Hell of a Run as a Beloved Hollywood Character Actor in Cinema’s Golden Age

May 2025

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: An Inside Look at County Bureaucracy in the Early 1950s, From the Beautiful Old Courthouse and the Viewpoint of the Dog Licensing Desk

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Ah Kow, Lim Gow, Mayor Walsh and Sheriff Brown — Revisiting Eureka’s Chinese Expulsion

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Back in the Day, Getting to Eureka From Siskiyou County Was an Amazing Days-Long Adventure Involving Railroads, Steamships and the World’s Largest Ferry

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Who Shot David Kendall? 140 Years Later, the Event That Sparked the Chinese Expulsion is Still Shrouded in Mystery

April 2025

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: 105 Years Ago, This Ferndale Kid Pitched All 26 Innings of the Longest Game in Major League Baseball History

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Life and Times of Incubator Flat

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Big Four Inn Was Northern Humboldt’s Favorite Roadhouse Restaurant, and These are the Italian Immigrants Who Made it Happen

After ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime Discovery,’ Cal Poly Humboldt Archaeologists Help Uncover an Ancient City

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: I Came To Loleta In 1894

March 2025

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Ages and Bridges of Bridgeville, That Once-Promising Metropolis on the Banks of the Van Duzen

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Who Was Kate Buchanan?

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: School Years During the Great Depression

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The ‘Sporting Girls’ of Old Town in the Golden Days of Eureka’s Prostitution Industry