Healdsburg residents are proud of their history, and the presence in town of the stately Healdsburg Museum building—itself a piece of history, formerly a Carnegie Library—does much to make the past come alive through its exhibits, resources and, for the past three years, its History Talks.
These informal summer lectures and tours originate in the Plaza’s Gazebo, and crested with last year’s program that saw over 100 people attend some of the Saturday programs, which started at 10am. Most programs consist of an hour or so of lecture and discussion, which sometimes transitions to a walking tour of nearby sights.
Starting next Tuesday, a new iteration of the museum’s History Talks—a winter season series to be held at the Healdsburg Library—begins. The first Talk will be Tuesday at 6pm, with two of the museum’s active docents, Nita Miller and Joanne Taeuffer, each presenting their own subject.
“This is a chance to get an overview of the town’s history,” said Taeuffer, the chair of the Museum Docents History Talks program. “If you don’t know who put the ‘Heald’ in Healdsburg, if you’ve never seen the town’s first grand city hall building and if you wonder who owned all the great old houses back in the day … this talk’s for you.”…