Saturday Speaker Series: The Archaeology and History of Falk Presentation

Name: Saturday Speaker Series: The Archaeology and History of Falk Presentation
Start: 2024-10-05T14:30:00-07:00
Location: 240 E St, Eureka, CA, United States, California 95501

Schedule

Sat Oct 05 2024 at 02:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

240 E St, Eureka, CA, United States, California 95501 | Eureka, CA

The Archaeology and History of Falk Presentation with Forest Service Public Affairs Officer, Julie Clark, and Archaeologist, Jamie Roscoe at the Clarke Museum
How to join: Free and open to the public, no registration is required. Link to view virtually https://www.youtube.com/@clarkemuseum240/streams

Getting There: The Clarke Museum, 240 E St, Eureka, CA 95501

Description: Julie Clark, author and former Bureau of Land Management Park Ranger for the Reserve, and Jamie Roscoe, local Archeologist, will speak to the 2000 Field Archeological study of the once-busy historic mill town of Falk (2023 National Register
Historic District) within the Headwaters Forest Reserve. The talk will focus on the Archeological Inventory of Falk as well as the critical importance of oral history integrating a larger picture and understanding of how the town of Falk fits into the larger
picture of Humboldt County history. Hosted by the Humboldt County Historical Society Free Lecture Series and the Clarke Museum.

Julie Clark Bio: Julie Clark is a Public Affairs Officer for the USFS. For over two decades she worked as a Park Ranger for the Bureau of Land Management, extensively at the Headwaters Forest Reserve. She graduated from Humboldt State University in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts in art education and minor in history. She received her Master of Arts degree in Social Science, Teaching American History from Humboldt State University. Her thesis was titled “Company Towns in the American West”. She is the author of two local history books, Images of America series, titled “Falk: Lumber Company Town of the American West” and “The Lighthouses of Humboldt County.”

James Roscoe Bio: James Roscoe conducted an archaeological field study and inventory of Falk with Humboldt State University (HSU), now Cal Poly Humboldt, in 2000, leading to the site’s 2023 listing on the National Register of Historic Places. James was born and raised in Humboldt County, graduated from Eureka High School, and completed his BA in history at HSU. He has worked as an archaeologist in the North Coast for more than 45 years and has extensive knowledge of the prehistory and history of Northern California. He has an M.A. in cultural resource management and archaeology from Sonoma State University. As the Principal Investigator of Roscoe and Associates and the former Director of the HSU Cultural Resources Facility, James has completed over 1000 cultural resource projects in Humboldt, Siskiyou, Sonoma, Mendocino, and Del Norte Counties. James was an educator for 28 years at Eureka High School, worked as an instructor and lecturer in archaeology and history at HSU (now Cal Poly Humboldt) and at College of the Redwoods. He is a former president of the Humboldt County Historical Society.

This event is a collaboration between the Humboldt County Historical Society, Humboldt County Library, the Bureau of Land Management, and Clarke Historical Museum.