Saturday Speaker Series

Monthly Programs Sponsored by the Humboldt County Historical Society

HCHS Events: Saturday Speaker Series

Saturday Lecture Programs are sponsored and organized by the Humboldt County Historical Society in partnership with the Clarke Historical Museum. They are hosted at the Museum (240 E Street, Eureka) on the first Saturday of every month. The programs are always FREE but seating is limited - come early to reserve a seat!

All lectures will be available in person and online
unless otherwise announced.

For more information about lectures, please click here to access the Clarke’s event page. As of January 2024, separate announcements
will no longer be posted on the HCHS web site.

 
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Preservation of Your Family Heirlooms

The Humboldt County Historical Society’s First Saturday Lecture Series presents “Preservation of Family Artifacts” with HCHS’s Archivist, Pam Service.  Pam is a UC Berkeley graduate with Master’s degree from the University of London in Archaeology with a concentration in African Studies. Pam worked for almost twenty years in museum management in the Midwest, including Indiana’s Art Museum and the Monroe County Historical Museum. After returning to the west coast, she took the director/curator position at the Clarke Museum where she worked for a dozen years, before taking a job as HCHS Archivist for the past seven. Pam is the author of over 30 books for young adults.

The lecture will be hosted via zoom by the Humboldt County Library and can be viewed from the safety and comfort of home on a personal computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone. The deadline to sign up for access to the lecture is 5:00pm on Friday, February 4th, 2022. Upon registration, participants will receive the meeting ID and password.  Those interested in this lecture and others, can find information at the library website www.humlib.org by clicking on the calendar of events and finding the event listed on Saturday, February 5th 2022. Assistance in signing up is available by phone at Humboldt County Library (707) 269-1915. Links to instructional YouTube videos for guidance in understanding how to access the zoom lecture are also available through the Humboldt County Library website.