On Samoa Road there is a mile marker that always puts a smile on my face: Hum Co 0. The zero line is across the street from a not-so-secret trail, opposite the Samoa Boat Ramp and campground. A quiet path to the beach is sandwiched between dune restoration, a U.S. Coast Guard station and trails […]
World War II
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Swing Time Travel: Photos and Video from the Taiko Swingposium
Last weekend, the San Jose Taiko Swingposium Immersive Theater Experience’s On the Road show transformed the Bayside Community Hall into a World War II-era dance hall in a Japanese-American incarceration camp. While under armed guard and having lost their homes, possessions and rights as Americans, those in the camps played music and held dances like these […]
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The Donbass Saga
A recent essay on the Clarke Historical Museum’s website about how Eureka came to be electrified attracted a single, terse comment: “Nothing beats the story of the Donbass.” Although the essay didn’t mention the Donbass, old-timers will surely know what’s being referred to. It’s quite a tale. Prior to Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt wanted […]
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Donate to Toys for Tots and see ‘Red Tails’ for Free on Veterans Day
Wondering what to do with your Veterans Day? How about a night at the movies honoring those who’ve served while helping kids in need? At 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 11, the Eureka Theater is joining up with Toys for Tots to show Red Tails (2012), the World War II action drama about the Tuskegee […]
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Taiko Swings up to Humboldt
Imagine a 1940s dance hall full of swing dancers sporting pin curls and pompadours moving to the big band sound of saxophones, trumpets and trombones. Now imagine the precision of traditional Japanese taiko drumming leading the beat and the dance taking place in the mess hall of a World War II Japanese American internment camp. […]
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Photos from the Lantern Floating Ceremony
A large crowd attended the 37th annual Lantern Floating Ceremony at the Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary on Saturday evening under clear skies. A gentle breeze helped push a few hundred lanterns that had been created earlier that morning on the Arcata Plaza out across Klopp Lake. The original Japanese ceremony uses floating lanterns to […]
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Trinidad Ordnance Destroyed by Military Disposal Team
A World War II era ordnance that prompted the brief evacuation of a Trinidad neighborhood was originally found by a property owner more than a decade ago but, after coming across the device again Tuesday, he decided to call authorities, according to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. Members of the HCSO explosive disposal team arrived […]
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Time Travel Via Witchcraft
As its four engines rev up, the Nine O Nine, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, blows a plume of black smoke across the tarmac at Buchanan Field Airport in Concord. During World War II, hardy B-17s — stories abound of the planes landing with blown out engines and destroyed stabilizers — were heavily deployed but this one […]
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TL;DR: Last Night at Roy’s
Busy week? We get it. Here are some highlights from this week’s cover story, “Last Night at Roy’s,” to get you caught up. If you noticed the smell of garlic and the glow of neon missing from D Street in Old Town, it’s because Roy’s Club Italian Restaurant has finally closed, ending the Fanucchi family’s […]
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The Oldest Living Christmas Tree
Since the early 1980s, the Humboldt Redwoods Interpretive Association has been celebrating the winter holidays by lighting a Christmas tree in front of the visitor’s center at Burlington, off Avenue of the Giants. Unknown to many is the fact that this continues a tradition started in the 1930s. The vision of “living” Christmas trees began […]