Thoughts about things we find facinating
By Library Volunteer Andy Ludlum
This is the story of an early Ventura County sheep rancher. His remarkable tale has been overlooked and almost lost over time.
Source: Museum of Ventura County
By Library Volunteer Andy Ludlum
The Sunday, December 7, 1941 edition of the Oxnard Press Courier ran a banner headline “FIRST WAR EXTRA” and described the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Wartime hysteria and long-simmering racial prejudice would lead to 120,000 people of Japanese descent losing their homes, farms, jobs, and businesses as they were forced to spend the next several years in desolate concentration camps….
Source: Museum of Ventura County
By Library Volunteer Andy Ludlum
It was January 15, 1945, a chilly Monday evening near the end of World War II. Saticoy farmer…
Source: Museum of Ventura County
Written by Andy Ludlum, Library Volunteer
In the 1896 statewide general election, national leaders saw California as a turning point, a chance to prove their movement could succeed beyond…
Source: Museum of Ventura County
Written by Andy Ludlum, Library Volunteer
Recorded interviews in the Research Library’s oral history collection give us a glimpse into the lives of two remarkable women who were members of the earliest African American families to settle in Ventura.
Source: Museum of Ventura County