Chico History Museum is proud to present an evening with the Chico Peppers. The Peppers were a women’s fast pitch softball team that came together in the early 1960’s and continued until the early 2000’s. They were very successful, not only in Northern California, but they went on to win a Gold Medal and Silver Medal at the Senior Olympics.
The evening will start with a presentation by two of the early team members, giving some insight and history of the team. We will then have an open platform where everyone can interact and share memories.
Presenter Brian "Butch" Peterson (born at Enloe Hospital in Chico), is an instructor of history at Shasta College (Redding). A graduate of Oriand High School, Mr. Peterson earned degrees at the University of California, Berkeley (BA, History), California State University, Chico (BA II, Music/Spanishi MA, History, CA State Teaching Credential), Harvard University (EdM, Learning and Teaching), and Yale University (MDIV, Latinx Theology; STM, Congregational Leadership). He has given academic papers at: National Council for History Education, International Country Music Conference, New England Historical Association, Northeast Popular Culture Association, Society for American Music, American Musicological Society, Midwest Popular Culture Association, Society for Ethnomusicology), and Music Educators' National Conference. He was a charter member of the Fabulous Swing Kings (1996-2011),-under the direction of the late Bernie Farmer of Chico. He was honored as "Citizen of the Year" in Orland (2016). A resident of Chico, Brian is an ordained pastor serving a congregation in Willows. He will be giving three papers in the fall at conferences out-of-state including the "It's a Wonderful Life" Museum Festival in Seneca Falls, NY.
A look at the people, places, and events in the area around the mouth of Chico Canyon, Hooker Oak, Five Mile Recreation Area, and the 21st Subdivision, from the 1850s to the 1920s. The presentation will cover, in chronological order, the fascinating history of this unique area northeast of Chico.
Robert Whitaker grew up in Chico and has been interested in local history since an early age. Since the 1970s he became particularly interested in the area around his family's home near Five Mile Recreation Area.
Dave Nopel will use the several photo albums and scrapbooks of Anna Marks to illustrate his presentation about life in Chico and the surrounding area from 1905 to about 1960. Anna moved to Chico with her family as a teenager, and would spend the rest of her life here, and from about 1905, she would begin to take snapshot photographs of her doings and events in Butte County. Dave Nopel has used the Anna Marks photographs in earlier presentations and projects, and he will again use a wide-sweeping array of Anna pictures to look back through time at an absorbing and illustrative collection of pictures.
Hours:
11AM to 4PM - Thursday to Sunday
Closed - Monday to Wednesday
Suggested Admission:
$5.00 - Adult
$3.00 - Senior/Veteran/ Student
FREE - Child under age 5
(530) 891-4336
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141 Salem & 2nd St, Downtown Chico, CA 95928
P.O. Box 6988, Chico, CA 95927
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Special thanks to the City of Chico for its generous support of Chico History Museum.