Trinidad’s Matthew Marshall leads a busy, productive life. Leading Redwood Coast Energy Authority and being active on the Trinidad Coastal Land Trust, Trinidad Museum and Westhaven Volunteer Fire Department are some of his responsibilities besides keeping his bagpipes in good order for the annual Memorial Ceremony at the former Memorial Lighthouse site (now called Trinidad…
Trinidad Tidings: An old-timey Christmas at Camp Creek
Mr. Shirley M. Hannah (1888-1972) taught school between 1911 and 1915, most of the period at Trinidad School. However his first school was at Johnson’s Store on the Klamath River about 20 miles below Martin’s Ferry. Shirley and Mary Day Hannah’s son, Thomas Hannah, also a former educator, school administrator and Eureka City Councilman, lives…
Trinidad Tidings: Local author explores home schooling
Trinidad’s artist and author Susan Mayclin Stephenson, who travels the world instructing educators about Montessori teaching methods, had trips to South America, Europe and Mongolia canceled this year because of the pandemic. She has filled her days writing a book, Montessori Homeschooling One Family’s Story about her and husband’s 15 years of homeschooling their son,…
Trinidad Tidings: Lighthouse Project auction set
It’s time for a Memorial Lighthouse update. The iconic structure rests near the harbor on land owned by Cher-ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria. Since it was moved on Jan. 10, 2018 from its site at Edwards and Trinity Street due to coastal erosion, the Trinidad Rancheria has been extraordinarily generous to provide…
Trinidad Tidings: The blessings of living in paradise
Thanksgiving week reminds us of infinite gratitude for the blessings of living in a place where outdoor beauty abounds all around us. Naturalist-photographer Jim Webb caught kayakers JoAnn Schuch and Joey Wauters on Big Lagoon with a flock of Buffleheads and a pair of Mergansers close by. Life is good. Baker Beach & Sotsin Point Work…
Trinidad Tidings: The Blessing of the Fleet
The 25th Annual Blessing of the Fleet, honoring Trinidad’s commercial fishing fleet captains and their crews, who begin to set their crab pots soon, will occur on Thanksgiving morning at 10 a.m. Prayers, blessings and presentation of hand made good luck talismans will be given. This year it is a Facebook Live event, virtual and…
Trinidad Tidings: A history mystery: Trinidad incorporation
Dwight Manning further tried to clear up the confusion caused by the statement of Leigh H. Irvine, in his History of Humboldt County, California published in 1915, that “Trinidad, the oldest town in California but one, is a picturesque village of 250 population.”
Trinidad Tidings: Community gives museum love
Trinidad Museum garden volunteers Ingrid Bailey and Gavin Scott have been collecting lengths of old growth redwood found on the land of local private donors. It took weeks to shape them into uniform lengths and then to place and secure them with bolts and wires in Trinidad Museum’s Native Plant Garden to beautify the…
Candidates vie for Trinidad City Council seats
Halloween looms large in Trinidad’s fall calendar. For decades, Trinidad’s children in imaginative spooky costumes, have walked through the town to the delight of most households, who leave porch lights on until their baskets of treats are empty. However, 2020’s coronavirus fear has changed everything. The City Council in last week’s meeting made the decision…
New Trinidad Museum exhibit looks at tobacco pipes, baskets
Trinidad Museum presents a new exhibit, “Native American Tobacco Baskets and Tobacco Pipes From Northwestern California” curated by Ron Johnson, Humboldt State University art professor emeritus, and assisted by Coleen Kelley Marks, Alexandra Cox and Jill Mefford. The exhibit will run for one year and then transfer to Eureka’s Clarke Historical Museum. A…