On the fourth Sunday, April through October, the Kelley House Museum hosts tales of local yore. Speakers are invited to talk on a variety of subjects regarding family history or their experiences living on the Mendocino Coast. Presentations take place in the Escola Room of the Museum from 3-5 pm. Cost is $7 non-members; $5 members. Refreshments are served following the talk.
DVD copies of the following programs are available for sale at the Kelley House Museum.
2011 Program
April 24 • Gene Lewis: Redwood logging on the Coast 1885-1949
May 22 • Harriet Rhodes: Native Americans of the Mendocino Coast
June 12 • Marcia Andre: The Andre Family from the Azores to Mendocino
July 24 • The Seagull
Aug. 28 • Stuart Tregoning: The Tregoning Family at Jughandle Creek
Sept. 25 • The Mendocino Volunteer Fire Department
Oct. 23 • Jim and Judy Tarbell: The Ridge Review/Black Bear Press
Previous Programs
2010
Apr 25 • Four Merchants and a Banker
May 23 • Louis Hough, “Schooners & Steamers of the Redwood Coast”
June 27 • “Glen Blair: Brigadoon of the North Coast”, Denise and Mike Stenberg
July 25 • The Making of the Movies in Mendocino,” Bruce Levene
Aug 22 • The Poets of the 1970s and 80s”
Sept 26 • “Country Women,” Harriet Bye, Carmen Goodyear & Arlene Reiss
Oct 24 • “The Ross Family on the Coast,” John Ross
2009
April • Dr. Don Hahn and Dr. Jim Swallow
May • Bruce Levene, Author of “Perley Maxwell’s Mendocino”
June • Cammie Conlon, First Executive Director of the Kelley House Museum
July • Tom Ugrin, “Stories about Leo Ugrin, Mendocino Coast Deputy Sheriff”
Aug • Bruce Levene, “Mendocino & the Movies”
Sept • Barry Cusick, “Mendocino Water Towers”
Oct • Rick Sacks, sign maker, “Signs of the Coast”
2008
Apr • Jerry Philbrick Family
May • Dean Stone
June • Bill Brazill & Lance Johansen, Stories of our “Outlaw” Dads
July • Juntilla-Stenback Family, Part 2
Aug • Charlie White
Sept • “Perley Maxwell” by Bruce Levene
Oct • Father Lou Nichols & Bill Gibson
2007
March • Kerrs, the Woodwards, and the Stenbergs
April • Saving the Headlands – Mildred Benioff
May • Memories of Caspar with Mae Johnson
June • Rachel Binah – Off Shore Oil Protest
July • Local Granges
August • George Hollister
Sept • Graham-McKerricher
October • Peterson Family
2006
March • Whale Wars, Wilson
April • Coulson Stump
May • Juntilla-Stenback Family, Part 1
June • Robertson-Macdonald Family
July • Canclini
August • Stories of Docker Hill by Geri Young
Sept • Hee family
October • Nicholas Wilson
2005
April • Steve Jordan, Part 2
May • The Tahja Family of Comptche
July • Zacha Family
August • Celebrating Women’s Suffrage
Sept • The Lemos Family
October • Paoli Family
2004
March • Mendosa Family
July • Alice Piccolotti Ivec
Aug • Mary Murry (Stone) Keski
Sept • Fraga Family
Dates Unknown
Miriam Newman
Steve Jordan, Part 1
