Saturday Speaker Series

Monthly Programs Sponsored by the Humboldt County Historical Society

HCHS Events: Saturday Speaker Series

Saturday Lecture Programs are sponsored and organized by the Humboldt County Historical Society in partnership with the Clarke Historical Museum. They are hosted at the Museum (240 E Street, Eureka) on the first Saturday of every month. The programs are always FREE but seating is limited - come early to reserve a seat!

All lectures will be available in person and online
unless otherwise announced.

For more information about lectures, please click here to access the Clarke’s event page. As of January 2024, separate announcements
will no longer be posted on the HCHS web site.

 
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A Look At the Early Days of Baseball in Humboldt County with Jack Nash

The Humboldt County Historical Society is pleased to present a lecture in honor of its 75th anniversary with its continuing lecture series. The lecture  subject is the development of Humboldt County’s baseball teams and leagues in their earliest years (1874-1944) and will be presented by Jack Nash, 5th generation Humboldt County native. Nash attended Marshall and Eureka Junior High, graduating from Eureka High School in 1962.  Nash saw service in the US military from 1967-1970 and later became a partner in the family clothing business, Arthur Johnson’s from 1970-1995. He also worked at Living Styles Furniture from 1997-2014. Nash is a past President of the Humboldt County Historical Society and has written on a variety of subjects for the Humboldt Historian.

 The lecture will be hosted via Zoom by the Humboldt County Library and can be viewed from the safety and comfort of home on a personal computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone. The deadline to sign up for access to the lecture is 5:00pm on Friday, June 3, 2022. Upon registration, participants will receive the meeting ID and password.  Those interested in this lecture and others, can find information at the library website www.humlib.org by clicking on the calendar of events and finding the event listed on Saturday, June 4, 2022. Assistance in signing up is available by phone at Humboldt County Library (707) 269-1915. Links to instructional YouTube videos for guidance in understanding how to access the zoom lecture are also available through the Humboldt County Library website.