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…

By Andy Ludlum, Museum Volunteer Ortwin Holdt and his fellow workers stood on stools and peered over a fence in Saticoy to watch…

By Andy Ludlum, Museum Volunteer Ventura County’s first organized baseball game was played in 1873, a time when new rules were beginning to…

By Andy Ludlum, Museum Volunteer Paleontologist Ed Mercurio has called Ventura County a marvel of paleontological diversity.  He told the Los Angeles Times,…

By Andy Ludlum, Museum Volunteer Early Ventura County newspapers offered one of the few ways to connect pioneer communities with stories, opinions, and…

By Andy Ludlum, Museum Volunteer Don José De la Guerra y Noriega was known to everyone as “El Capitán.” He was already one…

Written by Andy Ludlum, Library Volunteer This was the moment they had been working towards for over 25 years.  Suffragists were confident that…

Written by Andy Ludlum, Library Volunteer Recorded interviews in the Research Library’s oral history collection give us a glimpse into the lives of…

by Library Staff Three grades still in use today, the Conejo Grade, the Dennison Grade and the Norwegian Grade, played an important role…