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KZYX Mendocino County Remembered

Linda Pack reads episodes of her immensely popular public radio program Mendocino County Remembered. She edits and interprets selections from the oral histories collected and published under the auspices of the Mendocino Historical Society for the American Bicentennial in 1976. A new episode every Sunday.

Mollie E. Moore, Mendocino City: Spring pleasures

5 mins; March 31, 2024

Aldah Nunn Rooks, Town of Christine in Anderson Valley: Murder in the family

5 mins; March 24, 2024

Tom Jimerson: Importance of family for the Pomo

5 mins; March 17, 2024

John Snider, Covelo: Haley’s comet

5 mins; March 10, 2024

Leo Sanders, Philo: Angora goats

5 mins; March 03, 2024

Dan Jensen, Pt. Arena: Smoking opium

5 mins; February 25, 2024

George Hee, Mendocino: Coming from China

5 mins; February 18, 2024

David Warren Ryder, Potter Valley: Revival meetings

5 mins; February 11, 2024

William Robertson, Covelo; Myrtle LeValley, Kibesillah; Annie Michaels, Duffy: Home Remedies

5 mins; February 04, 2024

Bey Barnwell, Branscomb: Playing the violin

4 mins; January 28, 2024

Lura Reed McKinley, Mina: Homesteading and a Winter burial

5 mins; January 21, 2024

Tom Moungovan, Point Arena: Talking about Abalone and blacksmiths in winter

4 mins; January 14, 2024

Irene Carlson, Fort Bragg: Finnish theatres and sauna

4 mins; January 07, 2024

Chester Mack, Comptche: Up a stump by a wild boar

5 mins; December 31, 2023

Remembrances of Christmases Past, Part 3

5 mins; December 24, 2023

Blanche Brown, Philo: Peddlers

5 mins; December 17, 2023

Monte Bloyd, Anderson Valley: Gambling & Robbery

4 mins; December 10, 2023

Hattie Kerr, Bell Springs: Getting & making food

5 mins; December 03, 2023

Mart Hurt, Covelo: Cattle & Indians `

5 mins; November 26, 2023

Caspar Hexberg, Fort Bragg: Steam schooners

4 mins; November 19, 2023

Elsie Farnsworth, Navarro Flat: Smoking salmon

5 mins; November 12, 2023

Tom Jameson, Redwood Valley: Panthers & Grizzly Bears

5 mins; November 05, 2023

Elsie Allen, Ukiah Valley: Rediscovering her basket weaving art

5 mins; October 29, 2023

James Brashear, Willits: Railroading

4 mins; October 22, 2023

Aldine Gorman, Greenwood: The “River Drive”

5 mins; October 15, 2023

John Fayal, Mendocino: Playing accordion at dances & saloons

5 mins; October 08, 2023

Ernest “Sharkey” Rawles, Boonville: Uncle Joe

5 mins; October 01, 2023

Lura Frati, Covelo: Teaching at the Indian School

5 mins; September 24, 2023

Cecil Gowan, Philo: The original Anderson Valley Apple Show

5 mins; September 17, 2023

David Warren Ryder, Potter Valley: Uncle Fields

4 mins; September 10, 2023

Effie Johnson, Manchester: Home Grown Food

5 mins; September 03, 2023

Ernest “Sharkey” Rawles, Boonville: The Devil's Dance

5 mins; August 27, 2023

Lena Meshishnek, Comptche: Kids Just Playing

5 mins; August 20, 2023

Manuel Figueiredo, Fort Bragg: Commercial Fishing

5 mins; August 13, 2023

Albert “Kit” Penitenti, Fort Bragg: Prohibition

5 mins; August 06, 2023

Max Rawles, Anderson Valley: "How the Joints Were Closed"

5 mins; July 30, 2023

Hal Case, Willits: Farming

5 mins; July 23, 2023

George Hall, Fort Bragg: Union Lumber Company Strike

6 mins; July 16, 2023

Louella Williams, Upper Redwood Valley: 1st Day of School

5 mins; July 09, 2023

Hazel Pittman, Ukiah: Picking Hops

5 mins; July 02, 2023

Lucy Young, Round Valley: A True Indian Story, Part 7 of 7: "Finale"

4 mins; June 25, 2023

Lucy Young, Round Valley: A True Indian Story, Part 6 of 7: "Running to Safety"

5 mins; June 18, 2023

Lucy Young, Round Valley: A True Indian Story, Part 5 of 7: "Escaping Again"

5 mins; June 11, 2023

Lucy Young, Round Valley: A True Indian Story, Part 4 of 7: "The Capture of Chief Lassik"

5 mins; June 04, 2023

Lucy Young, Round Valley: A True Indian Story, Part 3 of 7 "Surviving"

5 mins; May 28, 2023

Lucy Young, Round Valley: A True Indian Story, Part 2 of 7 "Hiding from Soldiers"

6 mins; May 21, 2023

Lucy Young, Round Valley: A True Indian Story, Part 1 of 7 "Grandfather's Dream"

5 mins; May 14, 2023

Tom Jameson, Redwood Valley: High School Track Champions

5 mins; May 07, 2023

Vernona Goranson Granvall, Fort Bragg: Working the Switchboard at the Union Lumber Company

5 mins; April 30, 2023

Elsie Farnsworth, Navarro Flat: Stealing the Egg Money

5 mins; April 23, 2023

Remembrances of the 1906 Earthquake: Part 3

5 mins; April 16, 2023

Remembrances of the 1906 Earthquake: Part 2

5 mins; April 09, 2023

Remembrances of the 1906 Earthquake, Part 1

5 mins; April 02, 2023

Clare Anderson, Caspar: No Law & Order

5 mins; March 26, 2023

Earl Long, Covelo: Dirty History

5 mins; March 19, 2023

Goldie Gowan Ward, Shelter Cove: Women’s Rights

5 mins; March 12, 2023

A.T. “Jack” Furlong, Albion: Saw filing

5 mins; March 05, 2023

Louise Dixon, Fort Bragg: Fashion

5 mins; February 26, 2023

William Sierck, Hopland: Shearing sheep

5 mins; February 19, 2023

Harriet DeVilbiss Swift, Rockport: Travel by Steam Schooners

5 mins; February 12, 2023

Lola Short, Covelo: Wedding at Spy Rock

5 mins; February 05, 2023

Frank McCarthy, Hop Flat: Getting the Tanbark

5 mins; January 29, 2023

Max Ware, Fort Bragg: The Chinese Settlement

5 mins; January 22, 2023

Myrtle LeValley, Kibesillah: Working in the Telephone office

5 mins; January 15, 2023

Elizabeth Scholl, Ukiah: Tender Memories

5 mins; January 08, 2023

Merril Williams, Lost Town of Cahto

5 mins; January 01, 2023

Remembrances of Christmases Past, Part 2

5 mins; December 25, 2022

Remembrances of Christmases Past, Part 1

5 mins; December 18, 2022

David Warren Ryder, Potter Valley: Major Wilsey’s wife

5 mins; December 11, 2022

Ruth Hood, Little River: The Old Gray Mare

4 mins; December 04, 2022

Othel Sawyers, Willits: Early housekeeping appliances

5 mins; November 27, 2022

Herman Fayal, Mendocino: Logging camp cookhouse

5 mins; November 20, 2022

John Vinton, Round Valley: Hog Drives

4 mins; November 13, 2022

Ray Scammon, Coyote Valley: Hard times on the ranch

5 mins; November 06, 2022

Lillian Sterling, Point Arena: Lost on Halloween

5 mins; October 30, 2022

Dorothy Hutchings, Willits: California Dry in 1914, Part II

5 mins; October 23, 2022

Dorothy Hutchings, Willits: California Dry in 1914, Part I

6 mins; October 16, 2022

Mae Clarke Winchester, Ukiah: Grace Hudson & the Bugsville Chronicle

6 mins; October 09, 2022

Leila Romer, Boonville: Stage hold-up

5 mins; October 02, 2022

Dan Jensen, Point Arena: Catching salmon

5 mins; September 25, 2022

Ed Downing, Laytonville; Chief Dock, Ukiah; Harry Hopper, Potter Valley: Indian Stories

6 mins; September 18, 2022

Nanny Escola, Mendocino: The Love of Teaching

5 mins; September 11, 2022

William Chessall, Ukiah: Early County schools

5 mins; September 04, 2022

Albert Wantt, Covelo: Hops picking and drying

4 mins; August 28, 2022

Clare Coombs Wilsey and Kate Mallory, Little River & Mendocino: Tom Bacon

5 mins; August 21, 2022

Walter Sandelin, Ukiah: Hotels and Tourists

4 mins; August 14, 2022

Mark Walker, Willits: Joel Starkey stories

4 mins; August 07, 2022

Leo Sanders, Philo: Boontling nursery rhymes

4 mins; July 31, 2022

Aldine Gorman, Cuffey’s Cove: Caught on the railroad trestle

4 mins; July 24, 2022

George Emerick, Comptche: Falling down a log chute

5 mins; July 17, 2022

Thelma Sawyers, Willits: A medical miracle

5 mins; July 10, 2022

Maurice Tindall, Mendocino; Whit Ham, Covelo; Walter Sandelin, Ukiah: In honor of Independence Day,

5 mins; July 03, 2022

Emil Lindberg, Fort Bragg: Becoming an American citizen

5 mins; June 26, 2022

Zola Snider, Boonville and Wanda MacFarland, Fort Bragg: Their Grandfathers

5 mins; June 19, 2022

Ewell McMillen, Gualala: How his dad made a living

5 mins; June 12, 2022

Hazel Pittman, Ukiah: Secessionists

4 mins; June 05, 2022

Ken Ornbaum, Yorkville: Family Feud

5 mins; May 29, 2022

Lillian Sterling, Point Arena: Childhood Photograph

5 mins; May 22, 2022

David Warren Ryder, Potter Valley: Halley’s comet and the strange wind

5 mins; May 15, 2022

Claire Kempe, Ten Mile, Remembering Her Mother

5 mins; May 08, 2022

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