Ford House Visitor Center & Museum — Attraction in Fort Bragg

In this age of taking down Confederate monuments it would also be nice not to gloss over the decimation of native people and their ways of life (in this case the Pomo) with language like "Northern Pomo left to try life on reservations" as if they were not forced to do so by the U.S. government and merely got some good deal on real estate elsewhere and jumped on it. Heavy use of the passive voice in writings in these sorts of local museums ("California's native populations were steadily reduced by ninety percent") makes it seem like it was some blameless activity that couldn't have been avoided. Would love to see places like the Ford House start this trend by acknowledging this ugly past (which they partly did). Otherwise, a very cute museum with friendly and...

Ford House is the visitor center for Mendocino Headlands State Park. Be sure to see the scale model of Mendocino village as it was in the late 1800s, which is not that different than the town is today. The displays manage to romanticize the destruction wrought by the lumber industry in the past while promoting nature and conservation today. A friendly docent is always there to answer...

I go to Mendocino about twice/week and had never been in until a few days ago. I was very pleasantly surprised. I liked the museum exhibits, loved the gift shop, found the brochure wall helpful and enjoyed a brief interaction with a knowledgeable man who worked there. Then I sat outside in the sun to wait for my friend and reveled in the garden plants. Worth the...