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Summer 2008

Volume 56 Number 2


Table of Contents

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Photo from family album A HISTORY IN PICTURES
by Deborah Meador

A handstitched family album preserves important local history.

   
Hortense Lanphere, and friend NATURAL RESOURCES AT HUMBOLDT STATE COLLEGE
by Richard L Ridenhour

Courses in natural resources are established for the first time at HSC, thanks to professors, local sportsmen, and a young researcher.

   
Ted Phillips, 1921 THE PHILLIPS HOMESEAD AT SHOWERS PASS
By Naida Olsen Gipson

More challenges, and a loss, await the Phillips family as their story continues from the Winter 2007 Historian.

   
Carmen Wagner murdered, 1925 THE COYOTE FLAT MURDERS
by Naida Olsen Gipson

Official skulduggery, unsolved killings.

   
Lafayette School 3rd Grade, 1036 - Beverly Jones, Billly Dimmick, Mary Dawn Melendy SCHOOL DAYS, SCHOOL DAYS; DEAR OLD GOLDEN RULE DAYS
by Mary Dawn Melendy

Memorable days of penmanship lessons, marching in step, single-women teachers, and "the strap."

   
Blocks of ice from Willow Creek ice house TALES FROM THE WILLOW CREEK ICE HOUSE
by Margaret A. Wooden

The art of ice-making in 1930s and 40s Willow Creek

   
LORD ASTOR'S ROUND TABLE
by Martha Beer Roscoe and Lynwood Carranco

The true story of the famous redwood crosscut sent to England by John M Vance in 1897.

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