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RE:Talk At Historical Society of the Upper Mojave Desert
(Date Posted:04/01/2008 4:58 PM)
I'm preparing my bio for the talk. What do you think? Cecile Page Vargo will be speaking on April 15th at the Historical Society of the Upper Mojave Desert. Her presentation will be Louis D. Gordon, The Man Behind Cerro Gordo’s Zinc Era. Little has been published on Louis D. Gordon, until now. Thanks to Doug Gordon, his grandson, Cecile has been able to put together the pieces of his life, before, during, and after Cerro Gordo. The power point documentary style presentation includes never before seen pictures from Doug Gordon’s vast collection, as well as personal stories from the diaries of L. D. Gordon’s wife, Cornelia. Following the Gordon presentation, which lasts approximately 20 minutes, Cecile will offer a more tongue and cheek look at Badwater Nessie, who made a rare appearance during the Death Valley floods of 2005. Cecile is a self-proclaimed historian, ghost town gossipist, and published author. When she’s not out in the backcountry exploring, she spends her time researching and writing about California’s unique past. Her website www.explorehistoricalif.com, is an online magazine, with monthly histories, as well as information about the guided 4x tours she and her husband, Roger, run several times a year. Cecile also writes for the quarterly newsletter the Panamint Breeze. The Reinvention of Cerro Gordo which was presented last year for the HSUMD, appears in the proceedings from the first annual Nevada Boomtown Conference. The Man Behind Cerro Gordo’s Zinc Era will be in the proceedings of the 8th Death Valley History Conference which will come out later this year. Cecile & Roger reside in the semi-rural suburbs of the Los Angeles foothills, and are very part time residents of the ghost of Cerro Gordo the silver and zinc mining town nestled in the Inyos that helped to put the sleepy pueblo of Los Angeles on the map. Together they are involved with the Friends of Jawbone, the Friends of Bodie, and the Mono Basin Historical Society.
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Cecile
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Well behaved women rarely make history - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Explore Historic California
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