Ventura County Museums

Joy Todd will address “Impossible Women of Pleasant Valley” on July 21, 2018, 11:00AM-12:30PM, Hueneme Museum, 220 N. Market St., Port Hueneme, CA 93041 Phone (805) 488-0585 *No admission charge, although donations are appreciated* Daily Dr. in Camarillo pays homage to three brothers—Charles (“C.J.”), Erastus, and Wendell Daily—who were early settlers of the Pleasant Valley.  The “Impossible Women” Todd will introduce include the daughters of Erastus W. Daily: Nellie, Ruth, Bernice, Gladys, and Adele Flynn. Todd, who has resided in…

Hueneme Mayor Pro Tem Will Berg will address “An American Student in Asia” on July 28, 2018, 11:00AM-12:30PM, Hueneme Museum, 220 N. Market St., Port Hueneme, CA 93041 Phone (805) 488-0585 *No admission charge, although donations are appreciated*   Will Berg spent two years as a higher education volunteer in South Korea with the United States Peace Corps and holds an MA degree in Comparative & International Politics from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.  Capitalizing on being conversant in…

Eileen Tracy will address “The History of the Saviers Family” on August 4, 2018, 11:00AM-12:30PM, Hueneme Museum, 220 N. Market St., Port Hueneme, CA 93041 Phone (805) 488-0585 *No admission charge, although donations are appreciated* After her sons were grown and gone, Tracy’s career brought her to Ventura County, where she would volunteer as a docent at Heritage Square, the Stagecoach Inn and the Dudley House.  She also found researching at the Ventura County Historical Museum library “relaxing,” and eventually…

Richard Senate will address “Films Made in Hueneme Area” on August 11, 2018, 11:00AM-12:30PM, Hueneme Museum, 220 N. Market St., Port Hueneme, CA 93041 Phone (805) 488-0585 *No admission charge, although donations are appreciated* While some of you may know that “Back to the Future: Part III” starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd was shot using the Ventura County Railroad spur located behind Hueneme’s Surfside I in 1990, how many of you also heard that Jesse L. Lasky and…

Frank Naumann will address “The Pleasant Valley Cemetery & Saviers’ Grave” on August 18, 2018, 11:00AM-12:30PM, Hueneme Museum, 220 N. Market St., Port Hueneme, CA 93041 Phone (805) 488-0585 *No admission charge, although donations are appreciated* Frank Naumann was raised on a farm located just adjacent to the Hueneme Masonic Cemetery.  In fact, Frank’s father would often remind his son that the graveyard residents were the best neighbors anybody could ever have.  Naumann’s presentation is based on his 2015 book…