Exhibit of the Arrival of the Counter-Culture Starting Friday, July 17 and continuing through November 30, 2015.Members Only Preview night will be held Thursday, July 16, 5:00-7:00PM.The museum is open Friday through Monday, 11AM-3PM Mendocino had been energized by the Bill Zacha art revival and formation of the Mendocino Art Center in the late 1950s. But a new change was on its way in the 1960s [...]
The Mendocino area’s reputation for “live-and-let-live” was not always the norm. The local 1909 “dry” election, eliminating legal liquor sales and saloon licensing, grew from seeds planted decades earlier by Little River’s first pioneers. The Coombs, Stickneys, Stevens, Dennens, and other Maine families packed their belongings, and carried especially close their religious beliefs, morality, and state’s temperance history. These, as much as the customs and beliefs [...]