September 2024

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

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