If there was one single event every Comptche old timer had a story about it was the September 22, 1931, Comptche fire. If Mother Nature had not cooperated and the hard-working firefighters had not prevailed,…
Posts published by “Katy Tahja”
Yes, once upon a time Boy Scout troops could get permission to hike for seven days through timber company, private lands and Jackson State Forest. The hike was first done in the 1950s and last…
You really have to have a reason to be driving north of Covelo towards Humboldt County. In our case we did, as there is an interesting rockhounding site to investigate. The oak woodlands were beautiful…
Twelve hours of driving, 190 miles and $38.00 of gas provided my husband and I all we needed for a Sunday Drive over a road we hadn’t traversed in 40 years. A drive to Petrolia…
The lovely image of the old Gaskill School made me think that readers might want to know more about this survivor, empty now more than 75 years. The school, in an area then called Hermitage,…
(Please understand the following information was gleaned by a rockhound, not a geologist, I’m trying to condense millions of years of geology into a few paragraphs.) “Where were we when we saw seashell fossils in…
It was common years ago to report to the local newspaper if you had managed to grow the “biggest” of anything. From historian Nannie Escola’s newspaper clippings, we found attention directed to the “biggest” things…
Decades ago Dr. Richard White practiced medicine on the Mendocino coast. He loved sharing interesting information the gathered. His publishing of “Mendocino Medicine and Gazetteer” allowed him to share his views on rural medicine and…
In my more than seven decades of life I have traveled to places weird and unusual, but never did a view make me light-headed and dizzy, but the Steens Mountains East Rim Viewpoint did that…