This Saturday, Ruth Moon’s Eureka Discovery Walks take us on a visit of the O Street circle and the Eureka High School neighbourhood. She says: Homes in the O street neighborhood are products of the post-war prosperity, and reflect the era’s idea of ‘modernity’ as well as what they thought was ‘country’ with some Ranch [...]
Posts Tagged ‘events’
August Discovery Walk: O Street
Posted in local, tagged community, events, history, humboldt, local on 20 August, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Art and Murals Discovery Walk
Posted in local, tagged art, community, events, history, humboldt, local on 22 July, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The July tour from Eureka Discovery Walks is the popular Art and Murals walk, this Saturday July 25. The walk starts at 9:30AM in front of the Eureka Co-op at 4th and B streets (do not park in the Co-op lot!) Our tour guide and the driving — er, walking — force behind Eureka Discovery [...]
Sand sculptures
Posted in local, tagged beach, contest, events, fun, humboldt, local, sand sculptures on 11 June, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On Saturday, June 14, Friends of the Dunes will be hosting their 14th annual Sand Sculpture Festival. In addition, they have a new event: This year we’ve added a Friends Coast Walk to the Festival. Community members (families, friends, walkers, runners, hikers, trekkers, explorers, birders, and beach combers, whether booted, sandaled, or bare-footed) are invited [...]
You said who???
Posted in current events, science, society, tagged engineering, events, media, science, society on 4 June, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I am so very mortified. I just received the e-mail invitation from the American Society of Civil Engineers for the ASCE’s 139th Annual Civil Engineering Conference. And who do they proudly boast is the guest speaker for the Closing General Session Breakfast? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Yes, it’s Mister Ben “Expelled” Stein himself. Mr. Ben “science [...]
Brew at the Zoo on Saturday
Posted in current events, local, tagged entertainment, events, humboldt, local, mendocino on 28 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s “Brew at the Zoo” this Saturday, May 30, from 6pm to 10 pm: come to Sequoia Park zoo and try out beers from six local breweries, including: Eel River Brewing Co. Lost Coast Brewery Mad River Brewing Co. Ruth McGowan’s Brewpub Six Rivers Brewery Ukiah Brewing Company You get a free free souvenir glass [...]
Justice, as seen from the sidewalk
Posted in current events, local, tagged activism, california, events, humboldt, local, society on 27 May, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My husband and I went to the rally in Eureka last night, held in protest of Prop. 8. Rallies like this were held around the state and even the country in reaction to the California Supreme Court’s ruling upholding Proposition 8. It’s not our first rally for this cause, standing in front of the Humboldt [...]
Lovely landscapes
Posted in current events, local, nature, tagged art, events, humboldt, landscape, local on 27 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, my husband and I spent the afternoon at the Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary for a little photography and a little bird-watching. We stopped at the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center and discovered that artist Jay Brown was exhibiting some of his works there and was holding an Artist’s Reception. We had a chance to [...]
Happy Earth Day
Posted in environment, nature, science, tagged ecology, events, habitat, landscape, media, photography, physics on 22 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We live on a beautiful, fragile yet amazingly resilient world, which we celebrate on April 22. It’s the third planet from our star, the sun, formed over four and half billion years ago from accreting stellar matter, along with the rest of our system. Life developed rapidly on the new planet, taking merely half a [...]
Godwit Days next week
Posted in environment, local, tagged birds, california, environment, events, humboldt, local, natural resources on 10 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Godwit Days will be upon us April 16 to 22 — a week of birding and art in and around Arcata. The marbled godwits arrived a little while ago already, along with American avocets, black oystercatchers, willets, several kind of plovers, etc. Birding has been good at the Arcata Marsh and along the shores of [...]
Wreck of the Columbia
Posted in local, society, tagged events, history, humboldt, local on 30 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Humboldt County Historical Society will be sponsoring a talk by Ray Hillman on the “Shipwreck of the Columbia” next Saturday, as part of its Historical Lecture Series. The passenger steamship Columbia collided with the lumber schooner San Pedro in the fog off the coast of Shelter Cove on the night of July 21, 1907. [...]
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