Mattole Valley Historical Society

[Lisa Hindley]

Saturday morning greetings!

Next Saturday, February 28th the Mattole Valley Historical Society will be hosting “A View of the Valley”. This is a collection of pictorial history from the 1940s and 50s as seen through the eyes of Doris Loudermilk.

We are very happy to have guest hosting with us her son Joe who will be on hand to elaborate on the background and places where these pictures were taken.

We will have the Roscoe House at Granny Creek open from 1 to 3 and hope that you will come visit us and join us in friendship… and refreshments!

[laurac...@frontiernet.net]

Hi All, i want to thank Lisa for her invitation to our event this coming Saturday (see copy below, and her attached poster), and to add a little more info.
This is from the announcement on the Mattole Valley Historical Society's Facebook page (it's a public page; anyone can look at it and is urged to join the page-- for that matter, to join the Society!)

Doris was an accomplished amateur photographer who loved to travel the Valley on horseback. We showed many of her photos in a Petrolia presentation, back in March of 2024. The difference between that show and this one is first, that Doris’s son Joe Loudermilk will be on hand to elaborate on some of the scenes shown and generally to have more of a clue about the photos than most of us had last time; and also that we are adding several new photos, while deleting some redundant ones. A slightly different presentation!

And of course, we hope that holding the show upriver and during the afternoon will allow some of the people who could not attend last time to join us that Saturday afternoon.

Hope to see you there!-- four or five days from now.
~Laura

PS-- One of the attached photos shows Doris and possibly her last horse, around 2001; the other is a picture she took up at a Prosper Ridge cabin where Buckeye Bonnie once hung her hat (we have an image of Bonnie and dogs in front of this very cabin). The picture here is probably from the mid-1950s, and we only know half the people in it. The boys are Jim and Jerry Clark, Doris's kids and Joe's brothers; and the man in the back, center, in the cowboy hat must be John W. Mackey; his wife Florence, in the white head scarf, being right rear. I don't know who the other youngish people are. Good-looking folks, though!

Cheers!
Lisa Hindley
Hindley Ranch
Honeydew, CA
Celebrating 154 years in the Mattole Valley
1872-2026
www.hindleyranch.com

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