On the fourth Sunday, April through October, the Kelley House Museum hosts tales of local yore. Speakers are invited to talk on a variety of subjects regarding family history or their experiences living on the Mendocino Coast. Presentations take place in the Escola Room of the Museum from 3-5 pm. Cost is $7 non-members; $5 members. Refreshments are served following the talk.
* Denotes the following programs for which DVD copies are available for sale at the Kelley House Museum. 707-937-5791
2009
April* Dr. Don Hahn and Dr. Jim Swallow
May* Bruce Levene, Author of “Perley Maxwell’s Mendocino”
June* Cammie Conlon, First Executive Director of the Kelley House Museum
July* Tom Ugrin, “Stories about Leo Ugrin, Mendocino Coast Deputy Sheriff”
Aug Bruce Levene, “Mendocino & the Movies”
Sept* Barry Cusick, “Mendocino Water Towers”
Oct* Rick Sacks, sign maker, “Signs of the Coast”
2008
Apr Jerry Philbrick Family
May* Dean Stone
June Bill Brazill & Lance Johansen, Stories of our “Outlaw” Dads
July Juntilla-Stenback Family, Part 2
Aug Charlie White
Sept Bruce Levene
Oct Father Lou Nichols & Bill Gibson
2007
March* Kerrs, the Woodwards, and the Stenbergs
April* Saving the Headlands – Mildred Benioff
May Memories of Caspar with Mae Johnson
June* Rachel Binah – Off Shore Oil Protest
July* Local Granges
August George Hollister
Sept* Graham-McKerricher
October* Peterson Family
2006
March* Whale Wars Wilson
April* Coulson Stump
May Juntilla-Stenback Family, Part 1
June* Robertson-Macdonald Family
July* Canclini
August* Stories of Docker Hill by Geri Young
Sept* Hee family
October* Nicholas Wilson
2005
April Steve Jordan, Part 2
May* The Tahja Family of Comptche
July Zacha Family
August Celebrating Women’s Suffrage
Sept* The Lemos Family
October Helen Todd Haun
2004
March Mendosa Family
July Alice Piccolotti Ivec
Aug* Mary Murry (Stone) Keski
Sept* Fraga Family
October Paoli Family
Dates unknown
Miriam Newman
Steve Jordan, Part 1