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Thank you to all who have been able to attend the historical lecture series at the Eureka Public Library. We are taking a break for the summer. The Lecture Series will begin again in September

Join retroactive journalist Jerry Rohde on a PowerPoint journey through Eureka past and present at the September program of the Humboldt County Historical Society. See Belcher maps, Swanlund slides, and Shuster photos that depict the Eureka of circa 1910 and then study snapshots of Eureka 2010. We’ll advance past the old Vance Mill, try to find the Eureka Foundry, and cut through Cutten, all the time chronicling the city’s changes over the last century or so. Don’t delay, see Eureka—Then and Now, before the Now changes to Then.

Historical Lecture Series

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

There are no presentations during July and August. Join us in September for the first presentation in the 2010-2011 year.

This is a permanent link to the history of the Annual Luncheon benefitting the Humboldt County Historical Society. It will be updated as the subjects of the speakers' talks is discovered.

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

2009-10 Programs


• Grandpa's Museum a book talk -- Fannie B Erickson
• History of the Humboldt County Fair -- Stuart Titus
• Hupa People in Contemporary America: Holding the Past and Facing the Future -- Mary Campbell and Kristen Freeman
• History of the Humboldt County Granges -- Jack Surmani and Susie Van Kirk
• Annual Luncheon -- Renaissance of North Coast Tribes -- Chris Peters, Seventh Generation Fund
• Flood of '64 -- Captain Jeremiah Scott, Fred Nelson, Jim Hill, Arlene Hartin
• Falk -- Julie Roberts
• Stephen Shaw -- Ann Roberts
• Dutch Oven Cookery -- Richard Wild
• Humboldt Soda Works -- Catherine Mace

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