Explore local color at the next online Humboldt County Historical Society Program with Journal Art Beat columnist and art history professor Gabrielle Gopinath. Gopinath’s presentation “Public Art for Eureka: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” on Saturday, May 1 at 2:30 p.m. examines the history of public art in Eureka from its 1970s beginnings through the 1990s mural […]
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Early Breweries on Tap at Humboldt County Historical Society Program
Humboldt’s hop history is on tap for this month’s Humboldt County Historical Society Program, Mercantile Brewing in Humboldt County, happening Saturday, April 3 at 2:30 p.m. via Zoom. Presented by Michael Berry, this journey back in time chronicles every commercial brewery known to have operated in Humboldt County from 1854 to the present day — and […]
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Crimes from the Past
Recorded in the eloquent handwritten script of a bygone era, a set of recently rediscovered ledgers contains more than just a list of the individuals who were led through the doors of the Humboldt County jail starting back in the 1880s. The seven logs, along with an equal set of mug shot books, also offer […]
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Fundraise the Roof
On the rooftop of an old two story colonial revival house in Eureka, missing shingles threaten the preservation of Humboldt County’s history. During a late September rain, water spills over the building’s unique barrel-roofed dormer and trickles down toward a recessed second story balcony of the Gross-Wells-Barnum House, the current home of the Humboldt County […]