Mendocino Words, or just Mendo Words, is two minutes of local poetry, weekly. Mendocino County is rich with poets writing about our natural beauty, our politics, and the little lives we can make for ourselves here. Mendo Words is hosted by Frej Barty, Mendocino County Youth Poet Laureate, with the mission to spread poetry across the county. Local poetry calendar: https://theresawhitehill.com/events/. Website: https://mendocinopoetlaureate.mymcn.org/youth-poet-laureate/ Insta: @mendocinoyouth ...
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Linda Pack reads episodes of her immensely popular public radio program Mendocino County Remembered. She edits and interprets selections from the oral histories collected and published under the auspices of the Mendocino Historical Society for the American Bicentennial in 1976. A new episode every Sunday.
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Mollie E. Moore, Mendocino City: Spring pleasures
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An eloquent appreciation of the special beauty of living on the Mendocino Coast.Av Linda Pack
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Aldah Nunn Rooks, Town of Christine in Anderson Valley: Murder in the family
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Sad tales of an unlucky family in the late 1800's.Av Linda Pack
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Tom Jimerson: Importance of family for the Pomo
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A strong statement about the ethics of Pomo families.Av Linda Pack
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The sighting of Haley's comet in 1910 terrifies a stock driver.Av Linda Pack
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The practice and pride in the skills of raising goats in Anderson Valley.Av Linda Pack
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"Hitting the bamboo" and drinking "Jackass" at the turn of the 20th Century in Point Arena.Av Linda Pack
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George Hee, Mendocino: Coming from China
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The story of the family that built the temple of Kwan Tai in Mendocino Village.Av Linda Pack
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David Warren Ryder, Potter Valley: Revival meetings
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Traveling evangelists provide surprising winter entertainmentAv Linda Pack
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William Robertson, Covelo; Myrtle LeValley, Kibesillah; Annie Michaels, Duffy: Home Remedies
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Lively and useful recollections about home remedies.Av Linda Pack
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Bey Barnwell, Branscomb: Playing the violin
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The heart-breaking story of a lumberman who yearns to be a classical musician.Av Linda Pack
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Lura Reed McKinley, Mina: Homesteading and a Winter burial
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The hardships of living and dying in the northeast corner of Mendocino County in the early 1900's.Av Linda Pack
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Tom Moungovan, Point Arena: Talking about Abalone and blacksmiths in winter
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Anecdotes about livelihoods on the Mendocino CoastAv Linda Pack
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Irene Carlson, Fort Bragg: Finnish theatres and sauna
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The Finnish immigrants to the Mendocino Coast create elaborate entertainments for their community in the early 20th century.Av Linda Pack
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Chester Mack, Comptche: Up a stump by a wild boar
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A young boy encounters a dangerous critter on his way to school.Av Linda Pack
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Remembrances of Christmases Past, Part 3
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Melissa Kendrick, Anderson Valley & Ukiah; Lena Meshishnek, Comptche; Elise Pimental, Covelo; and Ruth Hood, Little River all relate their memories of Christmas in Mendocino County in the early 1900's. More of these wonderful stories are Episodes #37 & #38, Remembrances of Christmases Past Parts 1 & 2.…
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Itinerant salesmen and the first cars in the county.Av Linda Pack
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Monte Bloyd, Anderson Valley: Gambling & Robbery
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An emphatic account of crime and punishment.Av Linda Pack
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Hattie Kerr, Bell Springs: Getting & making food
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Providing for a remote homestead in the early 1900's.Av Linda Pack
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Mart Hurt, Covelo: Cattle & Indians `
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A story about he herding of both cattle and Indians into Round Valley.Av Linda Pack
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Caspar Hexberg, Fort Bragg: Steam schooners
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A port captain explains the complexities of loading and shipping lumber in the early 1900's.Av Linda Pack
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Elsie Farnsworth, Navarro Flat: Smoking salmon
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Preparing the delicious bounty of the Mendocino Coast.Av Linda Pack
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Tom Jameson, Redwood Valley: Panthers & Grizzly Bears
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Terrifying tales of protecting stock from dangerous predators.Av Linda Pack
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Elsie Allen, Ukiah Valley: Rediscovering her basket weaving art
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An inspiring story from an extraordinary woman reclaiming her Pomo heritage.Av Linda Pack
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A proud lifelong railroad man talks about his career.Av Linda Pack
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Aldine Gorman, Greenwood: The “River Drive”
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A thrilling and lyrical recounting of getting the logs down the river.Av Linda Pack
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John Fayal, Mendocino: Playing accordion at dances & saloons
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Having fun at dances and drinking all over town.Av Linda Pack
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Ernest “Sharkey” Rawles, Boonville: Uncle Joe
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Amazing anecdotes of a tough character in the 1860's.Av Linda Pack
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Lura Frati, Covelo: Teaching at the Indian School
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Starting the first school on the Round Valley Indian Reservation in 1910.Av Linda Pack
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Cecil Gowan, Philo: The original Anderson Valley Apple Show
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The beginnings of County agriculture and transportation in the early 1900's.Av Linda Pack
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David Warren Ryder, Potter Valley: Uncle Fields
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A wonderful anecdote about a Mountain Man.Av Linda Pack
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Effie Johnson, Manchester: Home Grown Food
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Working with the glorious abundance of salmon, dairy, and produce in the early 1900's.Av Linda Pack
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Ernest “Sharkey” Rawles, Boonville: The Devil's Dance
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An epic poem about how a feud between Boonville and Philo turned into a brawl.Av Linda Pack
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Lena Meshishnek, Comptche: Kids Just Playing
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Memorable mischief and fun growing up in timber country.Av Linda Pack
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Manuel Figueiredo, Fort Bragg: Commercial Fishing
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It was a hard way to make a living - fishing for salmon, shark, tuna and cod.Av Linda Pack
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Albert “Kit” Penitenti, Fort Bragg: Prohibition
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Speakeasies, bootleggers and rumrunners on the Mendocino Coast in the the dangerous 1920's.Av Linda Pack
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Max Rawles, Anderson Valley: "How the Joints Were Closed"
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An story poem about the local option for prohibition, with some Boontling -- an archaic local languageAv Linda Pack
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The agricultural year and a remedy for poison oak from the early 1900s.Av Linda Pack
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George Hall, Fort Bragg: Union Lumber Company Strike
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An eye-opening story of the two year long strike for safety rules and overtime, 1946 - 1948.Av Linda Pack
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Louella Williams, Upper Redwood Valley: 1st Day of School
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A proud young woman begins her career as a teacher.Av Linda Pack
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A hot snd prickly summer job provides needed income.Av Linda Pack
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Lucy Young, Round Valley: A True Indian Story, Part 7 of 7: "Finale"
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The Saga of Lucy Young, a Wailaki Indian girl, who, in 1862, when she was around 10 years old, fled from soldiers and from white men who trafficked in Indian children. In 1939, when Lucy was in her 90s, she told her story to her neighbor in Covelo, the ethnobotanist Edith Van Allen Murphey. Lucy Young wanted the truth to be told. Part 7 of 7 "Final…
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Lucy Young, Round Valley: A True Indian Story, Part 6 of 7: "Running to Safety"
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The Saga of Lucy Young, a Wailaki Indian girl, who, in 1862, when she was around 10 years old, fled from soldiers and from white men who trafficked in Indian children. In 1939, when Lucy was in her 90s, she told her story to her neighbor in Covelo, the ethnobotanist Edith Van Allen Murphey. Lucy Young wanted the truth to be told. Part 6 of 7 "Runni…
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Lucy Young, Round Valley: A True Indian Story, Part 5 of 7: "Escaping Again"
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The Saga of Lucy Young, a Wailaki Indian girl, who, in 1862, when she was around 10 years old, fled from soldiers and from white men who trafficked in Indian children. In 1939, when Lucy was in her 90s, she told her story to her neighbor in Covelo, the ethnobotanist Edith Van Allen Murphey. Lucy Young wanted the truth to be told. Part 5 of 7 "Escap…
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Lucy Young, Round Valley: A True Indian Story, Part 4 of 7: "The Capture of Chief Lassik"
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The Saga of Lucy Young, a Wailaki Indian girl, who, in 1862, when she was around 10 years old, fled from soldiers and from white men who trafficked in Indian children. In 1939, when Lucy was in her 90s, she told her story to her neighbor in Covelo, the ethnobotanist Edith Van Allen Murphey. Lucy Young wanted the truth to be told. Part 4 of 7 "The C…
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Lucy Young, Round Valley: A True Indian Story, Part 3 of 7 "Surviving"
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The Saga of Lucy Young, a Wailaki Indian girl, who, in 1862, when she was around 10 years old, fled from soldiers and from white men who trafficked in Indian children. In 1939, when Lucy was in her 90s, she told her story to her neighbor in Covelo, the ethnobotanist Edith Van Allen Murphey. Lucy Young wanted the truth to be told. Part 3 of 7 "Survi…
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