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• Lecture Series 5: CAMP LASSEN ON CHICO CREEK, A Summer Camp for Chico Boy Scouts

  • When
    Sat, May 04, 2024
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    10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    Chico History Museum, 141 Salem St. Chico, CA 95928

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  Dave Nopel will draw from family photographs as well as photos and information collected by his father, John Nopel, telling the story of Camp Lassen, upstream from Chico some 35 miles, at Chico Meadows. Dave will touch on the early Boy Scout story in the United States and then in California and Chico. The Boy Scouts would have their first summer camp, Camp Na-Wa-Kwa, in the Humbug Valley just west of Lake Almoner, but would move their summer camp to Chico Meadows in 1934. Pictures will portray Camp Lassen from it’s construction down to today, where its very future is threatened by the swirling circumstances of our present day.

  
  

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• Chinese Tea Tasting

  • When
    Sun, May 05, 2024
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    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    141 Salem St, Chico, CA 95928

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• Lecture Series 6: Before Ishi: The Life and Death of the Yahi

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    Sat, May 25, 2024
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    10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    Chico History Museum, 141 Salem St. Chico, CA 95928

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  Long time Chico newsman, Steve Schoonover will be speaking on his book “Before Ishi: The Life and Death of the Yahi”. The book sprung from a failed effort Schooner made to share with his son some of the on-the-scene knowledge about a bit of local history, namely the life and death of the Yahi Indians of eastern Tehama County. The failure prompted several years of research that found the accounts of the destruction of the tribe were just plain wrong. The author feels an obsession with promoting the myths of Ishi made getting the story right important. The book is an effort to correct the mistakes and focus on the Yahi rather than Ishi.

  
  

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