by Library Volunteer Andy Ludlum One hundred years ago a tragic mix of poor judgment, navigational errors, irregular currents, and fog cost 23…

By Library Volunteer Andy Ludlum Ventura residents were shocked in February 1921 when they read about girls rioting at the local state training…

By Library Volunteer Andy Ludlum This is the story of an early Ventura County sheep rancher. His remarkable tale has been overlooked and…

By Library Volunteer Andy Ludlum It was a stand-off worthy of the old Wild West. The taciturn lawman was face to face with…

By Library Volunteer Andy Ludlum The frail old man, known to everyone in Simi as “Grandpa Stones,” practically had to be carried over…

By Library Volunteer Andy Ludlum It was the opening day of duck season in October 1925. The last thing the hunters expected to…

By Library Volunteer Andy Ludlum When two pirate ships appeared off the California coast in November 1818, it was a moment the governor…

By Library Volunteer Andy Ludlum The Sunday, December 7, 1941 edition of the Oxnard Press Courier ran a banner headline “FIRST WAR EXTRA”…

By Library Volunteer Andy Ludlum It was January 15, 1945, a chilly Monday evening near the end of World War II. Saticoy farmer…

By Museum Volunteer Andy Ludlum In March 1918, an Army cook named Albert Gitchell was hospitalized with a 104-degree fever at Camp Funston…

By Museum Volunteer Andy Ludlum Two pipe organs – each more than 150 years old – have traveled to Ventura County from the…

By Museum Volunteer Andy Ludlum On New Year’s Day 1919 Phillip Van der Meide, the manager of Ventura’s bath house said that after…