Northern Mariposa County History Center Updated information (4/5/18): Event Cancelled Due to Weather
HISTORY CENTER’S SPRING SPEAKER SERIES
Saved By Hardluck Lin!
March 25, 2018 - We were disappointed when our March presentation with Scott Carpenter had to be postponed due to weather. Now, our second program, on Saturday, April 7th, has to be rearranged, as Julia Parker, the wonderful native American basket maker and historian, has had to cancel her appearance. We are most fortunate that Hard Luck Lin (aka Linda Tiegland Clark) was able to rearrange her schedule and move her visit up a month!
In the manner of those early California Argonauts who sat about campfires warming hands, drying britches, and telling stories that would one day be memorialized as history, legend, and even as myth, Hardluck Lin will edu-tain young and old alike. She will share true yarns about Gold rush-era folks who fill the pages of our local history including how gold really got discovered.
She will have copies of her book, THE SMALL WINDOW: The Story of Hardluck's Beginnings with her and will autograph copies. As Hardluck says, “Books, ya know, they make good gifts. They ain’t gotta be plugged in; they ain’t needin’ batteries; and a body kin even learn hisself somethin’ and it ain’t gonna be painful neither!”
The program will include period music and conclude with tasty refreshments. Donations are always appreciated. It will be held at the Big Table Ranch, a new local event center, located at 5586 Greeley Hill Rd. (2 ½ miles East of Coulterville/4 miles west of Greeley Hill) from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The program is designed to entertain and educate kids of all ages from 6 to 96!
Plans for May are pending at this time.
Northern Mariposa County History Center Breakfast
JOIN THE NMCHC FOR BREAKFAST on APRIL 15th!
Enjoy a great breakfast at the Coulterville Old Schoolhouse, located at the corner of Broadway and Cemetery Streets on Sunday, April 15th. All-you-can-eat pancakes, eggs cooked the way you want them, bacon or sausage are served from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Adults are $5.00, children just $3.00 and a family of 4 (2 adults, 2 children) is $15.00… a great bargain for you and an important fund-raiser for the museum…held every month on the second Sunday! If you’re an early riser, your assistance helping serve and/or clean up would be gratefully appreciated (just this once, or every month)! Just call the museum at (209) 878-3015 to learn more.
HERITAGE ROSE TOUR
This year the annual Heritage Rose Tour is on Saturday, April 21st, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m., starting at the Coulterville History Center. This year, representatives of the Rose Rustlers will lead not one, but two walking tours through the historic town of Coulterville. Both will get underway at 10 am, with the shorter tour breaking away and circling around the Jeffery block and back to the History Center while those interested in seeing more varieties will proceed up the hill eastward towards Sun Sun Wo before heading back to the museum.
Rooted cuttings from a dozen varieties of local roses will be available to purchase including: Blush Noisette, Cecile Brunner, Coulterville Red, Dr. W Van Fleet. Dutcheese de Brabant, Fortune's Double Yellow, Lady Forteviot, Lamarque, Madame Berard, Paul Neyron, Russell's Cottage, Seven Sisters.
Those in one-gallon pots are $7 and 5 gallon sized are $15. One of these varieties, the Lady Forteviot was identified just this year.
Be sure and check out what’s happening at the museum on the “Northern Mariposa County History Center” Facebook page. The Northern Mariposa County History Center is a 501c3 private, non-profit charitable organization established in 1976, with the museum opening to the public in 1980. Displays and historic photos provide an authentic glimpse of the life and times of the pioneers who helped settle the local area in the 1800’s and early 1900’s. This year we are kicking off a capital funds campaign to restore the Frank and Ila Barrett wing, donated to the museum in 2017.
Learn more by visiting the Northern Mariposa County History Center website and Facebook page.
