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We would like to have a complete collection of Ferndale High School Year Books. Please consider donating a year book if you have an extra, inherited it, don't want it anymore, etc. We would appreciate it.
Color Changing Tote Bags
Guess what we have come up with for the gift shop now! Tote bags that change color in the sun! Wow! what a great gift idea. These fantastic totes have postcard snapshots of Ferndale scattered across the front. The layout was designed by Joan Katri. The special inks take the pictures from black and white to sheek to eye catching color when you go outside. THE COLOR CHANGING TOTE BAGS ARE NOW IN! COME IN AND BE AMONG THE FIRST TO GET YOURS!
Time Keeps Tickin' On
Gordon Green has come to the rescue again. Our seismograph clock needed work. It can be very difficult to keep old equipment like that going. The seismograph doesn't run without it. Gordon stepped up to the plate and has repaired it for us again. Thank you Gordon.
An Afternoon at a Country Estate
August 24, 2008 The Ferndale Museum will present An Afternoon At A Country Estate Wine, food, music and a tour of the Grizzly Bluff home and gardens of Herb and Terry Russ. COme and enjoy this beautiful setting between 12:00 noon and 4:00 p.m. This is a cone home and garden tour so you will have time to take it all in without having to rush.
Elk Prarie Vineyard will be providing the wine. Admission will be $20.00 and tickets will be on sale at the Museum, Rings Pharmacy, Lentz' Department Store in Ferndale. In Fortuna you may purchase them at Green's Pharmacy or Fortuna Fabric and Crafts. We hope to have locations for purchasing tickets in Eureka and Arcata also but don't have them in line yet. You can send a check to the Ferndale Museum for $20.00 and an SASE and we will be happy to mail them to you. Ferndale Museum, PO Box 431, Ferndale, CA 95536
It's a Bit Puzzling
Do you need something to while away the time? Want to keep your mental faculties sharp? Doctors say the best way to stave off dementia is to keep using your brain. so, clean out those cobwebs by coming down to the Museum gift shop and pick up one of our new wooden puzzles. We have many to choose from. We also have wooden traveling chinese checkers boards - great for those car trips when you want to keep the kids occupied. For at home try the wood "haystack" game. Remove pieces until the stack tumbles. We have two pull train toys for little ones also.
Ann Roberts Talk Well Attended
Ann's recent talk on Ferndale history was met with a lot of enthusiasm by all who attended. Ann has done a lot of research on Ferndale. She can be found many days pouring over documents, photographs, files, articles, etc. in the back room of the museum. She also spends a great deal of time at the Humboldt County Library in Eureka.
We have her talk on Ferndale on CD in our gift shop. Ann contributes much to this newletter as well and I am eternally grateful. She is always ready to help with research and has many good tips on how to go about finding the information you need.
How's That Again?
In Blythe it is against the law to wear cowboy boots unless you already own at least two cows.
In Hollywood it is illegal to drive more than 2,000 sheep down Hollywood Blvd at one time.
In Baldwin Park, nobody is allowed to ride a bicycle in a swimming pool.
In Riverside, one may not carry a lunch down the street between 11:00 and 1:00 o'clock.
I couldn't find any nonsensical laws in Ferndale's old books.
Hints from 1908 Ferndale Enterprise
Here are some helpful tips taken from century old wisdom and experience. Maybe you can use them now.
***How to make shampoo soap. Put a teacupful of water into a saucepan, and into this cut up an inch cube of castile soap. Place on the stove and let simmer, not boil, for an hour. Remove from the fire, add one tablespoonful of ammonia and set away until cooled and jellied. Take the white of one egg, beat stiffly and whip into the soap jelly. Use at once if desired. It will keep nicely in a cool place. This leaves the hair soft and fluffy and not sticky, as is usual with hard water.
***How to make a cheap filter. The most impure water may be purified by filtering through charcoal. Take a large flowerpot, put a piece of sponge or clean moss over the hole in the bottom and fill three-quarters full of equal parts clean sand and charcoal. Over this lay a linen cloth large enough to hang over sides of pot. Pour the water into the cloth, and it will come out pure.
***How to clean enamel paint. Soap never should be used in cleaning paint, especially white enamel or any paint with a gloss, as it removes the gloss, which is its chief charm. If in washing enameled woodwork a cupful of common carpenter's glue is melted and poured into a pail of warm water it not only will facilitate the cleaning, but will leave a high gloss such as new paint has. If once used this common glue will become a household necessity.
Fern's Facts and Musings
Q. Dear Fern, How long have the Ferndale Firemen's Games been going on? Signed - Friend of the Firemen
A.Dear Friend, The Ferndale Volunteer Fire Department's first annual program of drills and games was scheduled for February 22, 1956, but the event was called on account of rain and serious Francis Creek flooding the day before. The Firemen spent the day with their hoses, brooms and shovels cleaning up the streets instead. The Firemen and their ladies did enjoy a pot luck supper at the Pavilion that evening though. The games have been held close to Washington's Birthday ever since then. Around the Turn of the century the Firemen always held an annual May Day event featuring a parade, drills, games, dinner and dance. This went on until 1915.
Ferndale purchased a fire engine in 1883 and organized a volunteer group called the Franklin Fire Company. we have photographs of them in their snappy uniforms which they always wore to the Firemen's Ball. One picture was taken at an event in 1885 along with the CIvil War Veterans and Kausen Band.
***Please submit questions to the Ferndale Museum for Fern's Musings either in person, in writing to PO BOX 431, Ferndale, CA 95536 or email museum@ferndale-museum.org.
Memorials
Memorial Contributions were given to the Museum this last quarter in memory of those listed below:
Diamantena Aguiar
Mike Ambrosini
William Beal
Joseph Brucia
Joe Christen
Paula Shaw Dolf
Mark Hackett
Harlan Hansen
Gordon Hicks
Joyce Hubler
Carl Pingitore
Norman Renner
Laura Shaner
Manuel Souza
Enid White
The Ferndale Museum thanks the donors and wishes to extend condolences to family and friends.
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