Angels Camp Museum offers historical lecture series

Blacksmith Brian Connery will be the guest at the first in a series of lectures presented by the Angels Camp Museum Foundation.

The series is a “labor of love” between the foundation and museum historians, stated a press release. Six lectures will be offered, one each month, October through April, except in January.

The lectures will be presented from 2 to 3 p.m. on the first Sundays at the Carriage House at the Angels Camp Museum, 753

S. Main St. Cost to attend is $10 per person.

In addition to Connery, the series will include:

Nov. 6 — Greg Francek will discuss fossils in Mokelumne Hill

Dec. 4 — Rollie Fillmore will give a presentation about the Me-wuk Tribe

Feb. 4 — Lynn Downey will discuss Araquipa and Area Sanitorium

March 5 — Kristopher Mendel will discuss Art in the Gold Rush

April 2 — Sandra Hess of the Calaveras Wine Grape Alliance will give a presentation titled “Our Roots Run Deep”

The museum sits on three acres with three main buildings. Upper museum at the street level contains a gift shop and Mark Twain exhibit. Lower level has a medical exhibit focusing on medicine before and during the Gold Rush through the late 19th century into the early 20th century. Two lower buildings are over 10,000 square feet each in size. The Carriage House is home to one of the largest collections of carriages and wagons in the nation. The lower building, the Pole Barn, contains artifacts on mining, ranching and farming, and minerals, as well as a carpenter shop, printing shop and textile shop.

Visitors should plan on spending two to three hours for their visit.

For more information, call (209) 736-2963.