Averee McNear, Kelley House Museum, Author at The Mendocino Voice

McNear: Mendocino and Miasa, Japan became “sister-unincorporated townships” in 1980

The relationship started through the Mendocino Art Center and continues with annual cultural exchanges.

Children stayed home from school but spent the day on the bluff, watching the ocean’s fury.

But what women wore to take a dip has changed dramatically.

The headlands was saved from housing development in 1974, and the town is much as it was 100 years ago.

Speeches, temperance drinks and a band called “the Horribles” entertained the crowd.

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