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Arkley House Sold – January 20, 2010
Kevin L. Hoover Eye Editor ARCATA – The stately and historic Victorian house at 980 14th St. where the Matthews and Arkley families have lived for more than six decades has been sold. Known as The...
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A Few Questions For Ingrid Hart – July 8, 2010
Note: The story originally appeared in the Arcata Eye on April 3, 2007 – Ed. What was involved with amassing the doodads Leoni’s wearing/holding? Most of the items that Leoni was wearing belonged to...
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The Life And Death Of Historic Alliance Store – July 13, 2010
Alliance Store in June, 1982. Photo by Don Mahler Kevin L. Hoover Eye Editor ARCATA – During Humboldt’s setttlement era, mule teams which had provisioned at Brizard’s in what is now Jacoby’s...
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Stillman Receiving California Preservation Foundation Legislator of the Year...
City of Arcata Press Release ARCATA – Longtime Arcata City Councilmember and former Mayor Alex Stillman has been chosen by the California Preservation Foundation to receive its 2011 Milton Marks Award....
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The Terrible Demise Of Young George Blank – September 3, 2011
California Barrel Company employees on the platform of the original building. Top row, left to right: John Piasco, Mr. Kimball, George Porter, Harvey Tighe, Mr. Larson, Bert McCreery, Ernest Schorling,...
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Sorelle Fluke: On Being Grounded To Your Roots – January 10, 2012
Where we come from and who we are is all because of the past, because of our roots. Every moment in history since the beginning of time has led up to you, here and now, in your life, reading this. We...
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HSU Teams With Yale To Digitize Local Historian’s Photos – March 21, 2012
HSU Press Release Hundreds of historic photographs collected by the late Humboldt State University photographer Peter Palmquist (’65, Art) will be available online for students, researchers and...
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How The Arcata Union’s Photo Archives Wound Up In Connecticut – March 21, 2012
Note: This story was originally published July 8, 2003. – Ed. By Emily Gurnon Special to the Eye Humboldt native Peter Palmquist, the nationally known photo collector and historian, amassed a quarter...
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Matina Kilkenny: Palmquist’s Humboldt History Archive – His To Sell And Ours...
Note: This opinion column was originally published July 8, 2003. – Ed. It’s time for me to write for the public eye my thoughts about Peter Palmquist’s photograph collection going to Yale. In last...
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Arcata History: Our ’Cata Was Originally Their Kori And Oket’oh
This is the first of a series on the history of Arcata, excerpted from a 137 page report prepared by Guerra & McBane, LLC, for the City of Arcata, Department of Planning and Community Development....
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1850 Was A Huge Turning Point In Arcata History
This is the second of a series on the history of Arcata, excerpted from a 137-page report prepared by Guerra & McBane, LLC, for the City of Arcata, Department of Planning and Community Development....
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The Gold Rush Eased Into The Settlement Era
Union had become an important shipping point supplying local redwood for the Northern Mines and for the new settlements in San Francisco Bay and in the Sacramento Valley. This was the era of Tidewater...
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Settlers Begin To Transform The Landscape
In 1853, Emil Dresel and Charles Conrad Kuchel formed the lithographic firm of Kuchel and Dressel. The two issued lithographs based on drawings Dresel made during extensive travels through Northern...
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