Over the past couple of months I have had the pleasure of driving to Ukiah weekly to see a foot doctor. This has given me the opportunity to become familiar as never before with every twist, turn, and straightaway on Highway 20, and to notice for the first time the little red schoolhouse tucked into the woods on the east end of the meadow at the [...]
Saturday, October 6 was a night to remember at Mendocino's Crown Hall. The Kelley House Emporium & Speakeasy Cocktail Party featured lavish food, custom cocktails, live music from the Dorian May Quartet, and both silent and live auctions. Here are some photos from the event. Tom Burnham as Al Capone's mother Guest Jennifer Taylor and volunteer Karen Latham with luscious appetizers! [...]
Make Merry at Mendocino's Kelley House Museum! This holiday season, you can experience a Victorian Christma and the five whisky regions of Scotland -- all at the Kelley House in Mendocino. On Saturday, December 8, the Kelley House Museum will hold special evening hours during the annual Candlelit Shopping Night in downtown Mendocino. From 5-7 p.m. you can explore the beautiful period home and museum while [...]
In a historian’s world, primary resources are original materials which researchers can study in order to write books or articles about any person or subject. If someone collected my handwritten draft of this newspaper article and saved it, they would have a primary resource. Once the Mendocino Beacon put the story in print in a published issue, that story becomes a secondary resource. The Peralta [...]
The Westport Bell Like many of the objects from the nineteenth century, the Westport bell was made to last. There are some gaps in its history, but according to a Kelley House newsletter article by Teresa Jardstrom, a teacher at the Westport School from 1932 to 1952, the bell’s working life began on board a ship. Unfortunately, the name of that ship has been [...]