In this illustrated lecture, historian Dot Brovarney will examine many of the themes and subjects chronicled in her book, Mendocino Refuge: Lake Leonard & Reeves Canyon (2022, Landcestry). These include the interplay between a Native Pomo who inherited the traditional role of singing doctor, and another who lobbied Congress to honor an 1851 peace treaty; two homesteaders who settled the lake at the head of the canyon in 1874 (one who sold out to Eastern capitalists, the other who refused); the engineer who ran the canyon mill, logging its old growth redwood in the 19th century, and the women whose 20th century efforts saved the last of the canyon’s original redwoods and Douglas fir.

Included with Museum Admission.