Presentations
Learn about history that challenges assumptions, uncovers forgotten stories, and connects the past to the present.
Lynette Mullen offers engaging presentations based on original archival research. Programs can be adapted for libraries, museums, historical societies, universities, civic groups, book clubs, community organizations and private events.
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Women of Eureka's Barbary Coast *The Forgotten Lives Behind the City's Vice District*
Women of Eureka's Barbary Coast *The Forgotten Lives Behind the City's Vice District*
Women of Eureka's Barbary Coast *The Forgotten Lives Behind the City's Vice District*
Who were the women who lived and worked in Eureka's red-light district? Far from stereotypes, they were daughters, mothers, property owners, immigrants, and survivors navigating limited choices and impossible circumstances.
Through the stories of women like Catherine "Kittie" Warren, Bay Wilson, Eva Calkins, and Mamie Wright, this presentation explores the human cost of vice regulation and reform.
Ideal for: Historical societies, women's organizations, universities, museums
Length: 45–60 minutes
Humbuggery in Humboldt *Miracle Healers, Clairvoyants, and Con Artists *
Women of Eureka's Barbary Coast *The Forgotten Lives Behind the City's Vice District*
Women of Eureka's Barbary Coast *The Forgotten Lives Behind the City's Vice District*
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Humboldt County developed a reputation as fertile ground for fortune tellers, "bloodless surgeons," spirit mediums, and medical showmen promising impossible cures. Meet the Great Fer-Don, Russell De Sang, Elsie Reynolds, and other colorful figures who exploited hope, fear, and human vulnerability.
Ideal for: Libraries, senior centers, civic groups, community education programs
Length: 45–60 minutes
The Nimble-Fingered-Gentry *The Lives, Language, and Tricks of Pickpockets*
Women of Eureka's Barbary Coast *The Forgotten Lives Behind the City's Vice District*
The Nimble-Fingered-Gentry *The Lives, Language, and Tricks of Pickpockets*
The nimble-fingered-gentry traveled the world and lived a life unique to pickpockets, with their own language, methods, and community. Learn about, how they lived, the techniques they used to separate marks from their money and how the public and police tried to stop them.
Ideal for: Libraries, historical societies, museums, civic groups, true crime audiences, and university audiences.
Length: 45–60 minutes
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