Shopping in Eureka, 1959
The news lately has been so horrible l want to regress to an earlier time. This post from three years ago reflects the same feeling. The news lately has been so disturbing and distressing it’s...
View ArticleAnother Harbor Study-NOW
At the sparsely attended Humboldt Bay Harbor Working Group luncheon at the Samoa Cookhouse on Wednesday Jan 27, the small group of devotees heard from Interim Planning Director Rob Wall that a...
View ArticleA Glorious Fourth In Eureka
Or the past few years I has been my pleasure to volunteer to staff the Humboldt Democrats’ booth at the Fourth of July street fair in Old Town. With the exception of the Rhody Parade, I can’t think of...
View ArticleWill Someone Please Buy The Eureka Inn?
You don’t hear much about the Eureka Inn these days. When the current owner took over, the whole town turned out to welcome him but since then things have been pretty quiet. There hasn’t been much...
View ArticleEureka and Dick Taylor Featured In Sunset
Sunset has again published a paean to the glories of the Redwood Coast. I the September issue, they follow a couple of guys on a road trip with a Westfalia. What’s that saying about a prophet being...
View ArticleHave Your Next Party At The Zoo!
Mike McGuire’s party last week at the Zoo was a fantastic event. Lots of old friends and Danniel, the giant Holstein, was on hand along with a skunk, a charming black goat and a donkey with...
View ArticlePassages- Rest In Peace Leo Sears and the nice lady from Mike’s
Maybe it’s the short days but I always seem to feel it harder when people die around Christmastime or I don’t hear about it till then. Leo Sears was a familiar face at the Harbor group and elsewhere...
View ArticleBamboo for the Pandas
A few weeks ago I got a call from the Sequoia Park Zoo, asking about bamboo. I had apparently let them know that I had some and they were interested in getting some for the little red pandas. Who...
View ArticleGolfing on Graves? Why not?
There has been a lot of gossip lately about people playing golf at Ocean View Cemetery. Perhaps they were employees. It doesn’t sound like anyone knows for sure. There have been outraged posts in...
View ArticleMy Confederate Past
I had ancestors on both sides of the Civil War. The Confederate side was definitely the most interesting. According to the 1840 South Carolina census, Clarendon County, my great-great-grandfather was...
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