This is a little off beat. The above recipe was from June Moller, one of my instructors at Menopause Manor. She would give those of the second floor of the Lassen County Courthouse a jar at Christmas. They are bit on the spicy side. June’s mother-in-law Hazel was born in Grasshopper Valley and had a post office named for her.
Another tidbit, once upon a time, the county recorder, would record most anything in Official Records. Not only one might stumble across poetry, but recipes, too.
Tim
Actually, I had something ready to go , but due to some unforeseen circumstances I had to pull it for a later date.
In a conversation on Sunday about the Purdy Brothers logging episode and the one log load. I happen to witness my Dad’s last one log load. It was a huge sugar pine located near Poison Lake, i.e. Swains Hole. For those who knew my father, lets just say this was a very colorful episode. One party that was not pleased was the Sierra Pacific’s mill in Susanville. They no longer had the sawing capacity to handle such a large log and had to dynamite it in to two pieces.
Tim
P.S. – A piece of evidence was found many years later in Dawson Arnold’s basement!
In 1928, Bank of America bailed out the Lassen Industrial Bank. The latter was near financial collapse due to the outstanding loans with the Honey Lake farmers who were heavily invested in Leon Bly’s failed Eagle Lake enterprise. However, it was not until the end of 1931, that Bank of America got around to replace the Lassen Industrial Bank signage with their own.
There is no doubt that 2020 has presented many challenges. For me, it was on October 27, 2019 that was a preview of the year ahead. It was on that date that I experienced my “fall from grace” and broke my leg. Before there was the “shelter in place,” scenario, I had three months practice at it, before I finally I was able to navigate on my own. Onward ho, for better things to come!
Tim
The historic Hulsman Ranch has been in the family since 1862, and suffered major losses from the recent Sheep Fire that devastated Diamond Mountain. While some may not know the property by its name, they know the property in the pretext as it surrounds Peter Lassen’s Monuments. It should be noted that in 1952, the Hulsman family donated the property of Peter Lassen’s final resting place to Native Daughters, who in turn gave it to the Masonic Lodge, and has been for over century a popular picnic spot.
Among the losses the Hulsman Ranch sustained was the original hay barn built in 1878, by founder, John F. Hulsman. You can read more on the Go Fund Me account, which there is a link below.
There are two ways to contribute:
Send a check direct to Hulsman Ranch,, P.O. Box ,850 Susanville, CA 96130
There is s Go Fund Me Account,
Thank you.
Colored linen postcards were quite popular during the 1940s. This particular one caught my interest. There is no place in Susanville that looks like the scene depicted. Every now and then, especially of years by gone, the names of Sunnyvale and Susanville get mixed up. Whether this is a scene in Sunnyvale, I do not know as I have never been to that Bay area community. Then again, the company that made this postcard may have had a standard image that was applied to many communities.
P.S. – I am aware that spring was yesterday, the earliest in 124 years. However, I had obligation for yesterday’s post.
While the proposed Lassen Park/Western Pacific Railroad did not pan out, the Western Pacific did not abandon Halls Flat. In 1931, when the Western Pacific constructed its Highline route between Keddie, Plumas County to Bieber, Lassen County, they constructed a depot at Halls Flat. This is rather peculiar since not a single person resided for miles in the vicinity of Halls Flat. Little did any one know at the time, that this would suddenly change in a few years and then for the next fifteen years it would be a hub of activity.
The next installment is that of the Halls Flat CCC camp that operated from 1933 to 1942.
