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 [...]
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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 [...]
Geotourism map: California North Coast
Posted in current events, local, society, technology, tagged california, google earth, history, humboldt, landscape, local, maps, media, native peoples, software, tools on 6 April, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago, the Crescent City Daily Triplicate introduced us to an exciting mapping project: the North Coast California Geotourism project, covering the Del Norte to Marin areas, including Lake County. Working with the National Geographic Center for Sustainable Destinations, the North Coast Tourism Council and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management are [...]
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. [...]
Historical Society 49th annual luncheon
Posted in local, tagged california, history, humboldt, local on 13 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The 49th annual luncheon of the Humboldt County Historical Society will be held this Sunday at 1PM at the Elks Club. Speakers Dennis Turner and Jerry Rohde will talk about “Place Names and Places of Humboldt County”. Mr. Turner is the author of a book also called Places Names of Humboldt County, and I’m told [...]
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Posted in books, science, tagged history, mathematics, physics on 6 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This day 321 years ago, Sir Isaac Newton published Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, better known as Principia. It gave us Newton’s laws of motion — the very foundation of classical mechanics, his law of universal gravitation, and a derivation of Kepler’s laws (which had originally been empirically obtained) of planetary motion. Interestingly, although Newton had [...]
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