In the ‘spirit’ of the season, the 2023 Fall Lecture Series and Teacher Inservice “Where the Ghosts Live” will be held at the Churchill County Museum at 6 p.m. on Tuesdays, October 3 through October 24.
The premiere speaker will be Tami Force, Content Producer of Nevada Ghost Towns & Beyond, presenting “Ghosts Towns of Nevada – A Photographic Journey Through Nevada History.” This lecture will focus on Ms. Force’s many adventures documenting Nevada mining camps, emigrant trails, and ghost towns over the past 20 years.
On Tuesday, October 10th, Kristin Sanderson, Interpretive Park Ranger at Fort Churchill State Historic Park and Buckland Station, will deliver “Fort Churchill – From Thriving
Frontier Fort to Ghostly Ruins,” tracing the fascinating history of Fort Churchill, now preserved in a state of arrested decay.
With their haunting messages, carved aspen trees are found throughout northern Nevada. Join Nancy Hadlock and Richard Potashin, self-described ‘obsessed arborglyph documentarians,’ as they address “Voices from the Ghostly White Aspens – the Stories and Spirits Behind the Carvings,” Tuesday, October 17. This lecture coincides with the opening of the Churchill County Museum’s new temporary exhibit, Arborglyphs: The Art of Heritage.
The final series speaker will be prolific writer Janice Oberding, the self-proclaimed ‘Author, Paranormal Researcher, and History Buff’ who will present “Nevada’s Famous and Infamous Ghosts – and the Places they Haunt” on Tuesday, October 24. “As arguably the most haunted state in the nation, Nevada has more than its share of ghosts with intriguing stories and historical connections,” is a quote from her latest book, “The Big Book of Nevada Ghost Stories.” Copies of the book will be available after the lecture.
Free to the public, all lectures will be held at the Churchill County Museum located at 1050 South Maine Street, Fallon, Nevada. Educators can earn up to 5.5 hours of Professional Development hours through registration and attendance of this series. For details, visit https://www.ccmuseum.org/events/inservice.
The Churchill County Museum is a public-private partnership of Churchill County and the Churchill County Museum Association, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. Located on historic Route 50, the museum is honored to be the “Best Little Museum on the Loneliest Road in America.”
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