Minnie Greenwald and the Tragedy of the Annie and Mary
Melvin Shuster
Norwegian immigrants arrive in Eureka towards the end of the 1800s.
Lieutenant Samuel Greenwald
Nan Abrams
Humboldt County born Samuel Greenwald joins Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders in Cuba during the Spanish American War.
The Humboldt Foresters Semi-Pro Football 1964-1965-1966~
Jeremiah Scott, Jack Nash, and Fred Whitmire
Semi-pro football comes to Humboldt County in the 1960s.
Hydesville: As It Was in 1910
Leslie Rocha
An up front and personal look at Hydesville in 1910.
Banner School at Tompkins Hill: School Closed but Memories Linger
Rowetta Miller
Remembering one of Humboldt’s many one room schoolhouses as it was in the early 1950s.
“We won! On the cover is a copy of the program from the Humboldt Foresters vs. the Oakland Gladiators semi-pro football game played in 1964. Handwritten in red ink next to each team is the final score of that game. A group of young women who supported our first and possibly last local semi-pro football team produced the program. Carefully preserved in a large scrapbook kept by player Tom Colbert was every aspect and moment of the semi-pro team from newspaper articles to letters to photographs. Although football doesn’t usually grab my interest, the story of this team did. Knowing that all of the men who played were doing so while holding down a job to make a living for their families was compelling and yet they followed their passion—football. Working with the authors, two of whom had been on the team, I began to understand why those young men at the time and these not-so-young men now had to play. They had a community that believed in their passion and the community did its best to make their dream come true. It is that team spirit that I hope we all bring to this time of year. And if we do, we will have won!”