Historical Lecture Series

Eureka Public Library
First Saturday of the month from September - June 1:30PM

Programs listed below are available for viewing on DVD at the Humboldt County Historical Society. These are not available for reproduction.

2008-9 Season Programs


• Eureka Was My University -- Mel Lavine
• Historical Arcata -- Joseph Wilhelm and Kevin Hoover
• Historic Atlas of Humbodt Bay and Eel River Delta -- Aldaron Laird
• The Humboldt Bay Area, 1946-1955 -- Jerry Rohde
• Doors of Eureka -- Janie Walsh & Gretchen Howard
• Annual Luncheon -- Places and Place Names of Humboldt County -- Jerry Rhode & Dennis Turner
• Flood of '64 -- Captain Jeremiah Scott, Fred Nelson, Jim Hill, Arlene Hartin
• Shipwreck off Shelter Cove -- Ray Hillman
• Bringing Water to Humboldt Bay Communities -- Jerry Colivas
• History of the Farm Bureau -- Donna Moxon, Gene Senestraro

2007-8 Season Programs


• Grant in Humboldt County -- Catherine Mace
• Wagons Ho! to Mendocino -- Jerry Rohde
• Fifty Years in Early Ferndale -- Ann Roberts
• Falk: The Beginning and End of the Elk River Company Town -- Julie Clark, BLM Headwaters Park Ranger
• Axel Lindgren - Annual Luncheon Presentation
• Erik Hollenbeck - Tools and Trades of the Past
• Dione Armand - History of Sequoia Park
• Rosemary Hunter - The Art of Indian Basketry
• Jack Irvine - The Humboldt County Hospital

2006-7 Season Programs


• McKinleyville Then and Now -- Jerry Rohde
• Changes in Henderson Center -- Mary Lou Lorenson
• Preserving Humboldt County History -- Ray Hillman
• History of Development of Humboldt Bay -- Don Tuttle
• A Brief Overview of Humboldt County History -- Ray Raphael
• The McKay Company -- Roger Rodoni
• Peter B Kyne's Valley of the Giants -- Arlene Hartin
• Early Day Pack Trains, a lecture in three parts -- Jerry Rohde
• Driven Out -- Jean Pfaelzer

2005-6 Season Programs


• Talkin' Baseball -- Jack Nash
• Architectural Changes on Eureka's Waterfront -- Ray Hillman
• The History of Henderson Center -- Mary Lou Lorensen
• HCHS Annual Luncheon and Program, Reb 12, 2006, Speaker: Lowell S Mengel II