The following is excerpted from Nowhere to Go but Up: What Angela Lansbury Can Teach Us About Living a Big Life by Lily E. Hirsch. In fact, the initial idea [for Murder, She Wrote] surfaced in a conversation between Carla Singer, the first woman vice president of programming at CBS in drama, and her mom. Singer had previously worked at Citytv in Canada, which was officially [...]
“Murder, She Wrote” actors Michael Horton and Debbie Zipp with tour guide Joann Mauro. Another beautiful Mendocino spring is upon us, which means another Murder, She Wrote Festival is just around the corner. As the Kelley House Museum and Mendocino prepares to welcome 200 “Fangelas,” we wanted to take a moment to celebrate our volunteers who help make the festival happen. Joann Mauro leads [...]
Mendocino is a wooden place. No surprise there, since the town’s economy was founded on trees. The lumber mill provided plentiful building supplies for homes, stores and sidewalks. What is unusual is how much of it is STILL wood. The historic district’s design guidelines do not recommend plastic. Fences are mostly wood pickets and planks, not vinyl. Signs are wooden. Windows, doors and siding are all [...]
Michelle Noe is a local artist known for her intricate hand-drawn designs that capture the natural beauty of her Mendocino surroundings. In a nod to Mendocino's famous connection to the television series Murder, She Wrote, she created a design for the Kelley House Museum’s Murder, She Wrote Festival. Michelle Noe, left. Michelle recently added her designs to the Spoonflower Marketplace, which offers on-demand printing onto over 50 different [...]
SOUTH of MAIN – Discovering the Lost Buildings of the Mendocino Headlands is available on the Kelley House Museum website, under the Exhibits tab. The exhibit takes visitors on a walk back in time, when the south side of Main Street was lined with more than twenty buildings that are no longer there. https://www.kelleyhousemuseum.org/exhibits-south-of-main/ The post office, the meat market, a photo gallery, Chinese stores, jewelry [...]
The Spring exhibit at the Kelley House Museum opens today! “Conservation Forever: 50 Years of Mendocino Land Trust” runs from April 2nd to June 1st, 2026, and celebrates five decades of the organization’s remarkable conservation legacy. If you’ve walked on a trail in Mendocino County, it’s likely you’ve walked on a trail managed by Mendocino Land Trust. Land Trust was founded around a kitchen table in [...]