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• Tahoe Truckee Annual airshow 2024 - some spectacular photos available at this link of the airplanes and activity - just in case you missed it!  ​Photos courtesy of President Greg Zirbel.
• Our very own Greg Zirbel, current TDHS President, received the Paul Harris Fellow award from Rotary International in March 2024.  This award is given to a non-rotarian in "appreciation of tangible and significant assistance given for the furtherance of better understanding and friendly relations among peoples of the world." Greg - you certainly fit that description.  Congratulations!
• PBS Reno WILD NEVADA featured Museum of Truckee History Curator Greg Zirbel sharing Truckee's history with viewers.  In case you missed it, it is episode 608 (Season 6, Episode 8, first aired Thursday, December 21).  What a fabulous job Greg did as MoTH's and TDHS's spokesperson sharing Truckee's unique history. ​Thank you to all involved!
• Badge # 500 - Story of Gautsche - Guy F. Coates Summer 1997
• Vets Hall and RST (Truckee Veterans Memorial Building and Rocking Stone Tower)
• Truckee's Gems - The Museum of Truckee History, and more - by Judy DePuy 
• The Reed-Lincoln connection by Heidi Sproat
• The 1970s proposed Independence Lake Project, Part 1. Disneyland in the Sierra - Part 2. by Judy DePuy
• Presentation Tuesday evening, June 20, the Chilling History of Truckee Ice, links to the recordings made for that presentation.  Option 1, or Option 2.
• Screening of the film LEGACY, shown May 10, 2023 on the 154th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad
• We lost another old building in downtown Truckee - snow slide!
• Snowmageddon 2023 - Greg Zirbel being interviewing about visiting snowbound Truckee in March.
• Prezifier donation - a modern scanning instrument for books!
• Scale model railroad donation 
• Serendipity! JAX  and Gingerbread House - by Heidi Sproat
• Boca and Loyalton Railroad triggered rapid development - by Daniel Cobb, TDRRS.org
• Hobart Mills and the Hobart Estate Railroad - by Daniel Cobb, TDRRS.org; in TDRRS Snowshed newsletter, Vol. 15, No. 2, Aug. 2022, pp. 2-3
• Tom Macaulay Map Collection - Diamonds in the Rough - by Heidi Sproat
• Tom Macaulay's Book Collection - Windows to the World - by Barbara Czerwinski and Heidi Sproat
• What Makes Truckee a Historic Town - by Heidi Sproat
• Commercial Row 1898 - 2021 Comparison - by Lilly
• Truckee Tahoe Airport Show, Saturday, July 23.  Facebook pictures by Greg Zirbel.​
• Saturday, July 16 was the Old Timers' Picnic at Truckee River Regional Park. A few pictures!
• Saturday, July 9 we recognized the McGlashan Butterfly Collection plaque dedication at the
  Truckee-Donner Recreation & Park District,10 am.  Sierra Sun article, 7/3/2022.
• In case you missed the 15 June program, "An Evening at the Museum" (Museum of Truckee History), Truckee in the 1940s: Scrap Metal, Shortages, Sacrifice ... and more,
  here is a link to the slide show presented that evening. 
• Dairy Industry in Truckee - by Judy DePuy
• Meet and Greet at TDRPD about Truckee-Donner Historical Society
• The history of aviation in Truckee and Donner Summit - by Jerry Blackwill May 2022
• Movies in Truckee
• Then ... and Now - 50 years between train images
• Jibboom! Jibboom! Truckee's Red Light District program
• Recollections of Jim Roth - early Truckee years, 1960 Olympics
• Tribute to Dr. Johan Hultin - by Heidi Sproat
• African Americans - A requestor recently inquired for any information Truckee-Donner Historical Society held about a Mr. Albert Johnson (1832-1911), a well-known and respected resident of the area during the late 19th century, and about the broader African American community in the area during the 19th and early 20th century. Here is a link to a preliminary draft prepared by Chaun Mortier addressing those two questions.  
• Photos of Children's rides on the Railroad, December 2021
  On Saturday, December 4, Truckee-Donner Historical Society and Truckee Donner Railroad Society members joined forces to host the children's railroad that runs through Truckee Donner Recreation and Park District's tract.  The weather was fantastic and the kids and parents were lined up from the station to past the railroad crossing gates for both rides and sign ups.  427 signups and 680 rides (plus or minus). 
• Rainbow Bridge: Beauty in the Mountains - by Bill Oudegeest and Judy DePuy
• Railroad Checkerboard - by Nelson Van Gundy and Daniel Cobb 
• Roberts and Doan Steam Wagon - by John Taubeneck 
• Donner Ridge Fire of 1960 images in DSHS Flickr collection; and 2 images from Sierra College's ejournals collection, Photo 1, and Photo 2, both taken in 1963
• Stanford of the Sierras - by Thomas Viano
• Truckee Ice and the Pacific Fruit Express - by Daniel Cobb
• History: Joseph Gray - Early Pioneer and leader in Truckee - by Guy Coates
• History of Old Greenwood - by Conor Villines 
• July 17, 2021 Old Timers' Picnic photos
• History of Trout Creek - by Judy DePuy
• Truckee Hotel - by Judy DePuy
• Chinese Herb Cabinet Lettering
• TDHS submitted an application to the Nevada County Historical Landmarks Commission (NCHLC) about the McGlashan Butterfly Collection currently housed in the Truckee-Donner Recreation and Park District on Truckee Way.  On December 15, 2020, NCHLC approved this collection as NEV 20-05 as a Cultural Resource!!  For specific details, see the NCHLC Resolution documents.  AND
  TDHS learned that an article was published online in the Dallas County Master Gardener Association in Texas about our own McGlashan Butterfly Collection.   And a June 2020 article in The Tahoe Quarterly about Tahoe Butterflies by Will Richardson.
• Logging - by Judy DePuy
• CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) and Fire Lookouts - by Heidi Sproat
• Perilous Stage - by Bill Oudegeest and Judy DePuy
• Railroading - by Daniel Cobb
• Truckee Train Depot - by Ed Czerwinski
• Chinese Heroes of the Railroad - by Jerry Blackwill
• Veterans Day
• Flume Riding - by Judy DePuy
• Flumes of Truckee - by Judy DePuy
• Native Americans - by Judy DePuy
• Shootout at Hurd's Saloon
• Count's Cars
• Santa Claus - by Thomas Viano
• Forlorn Hope
• Sidewalks - by Thomas Viano
• Farewell Message from our President Katie Holley 2018 - 2020
• CCC and Fire Lookouts - by Heidi Sproat
• Sawdust in the Truckee River (Truckee Lumber Company) - by Heidi Sproat
• Ice Harvesting and the "Hot Tamale"! - by Heidi Sproat
• Truckee River Railroad Platform - by Heidi Sproat
• ​Stampede and Boca Reservoirs - by Heidi Sproat
• US TRUCKEE - by Heidi Sproat
• ​Truckee Intermediate Field - by Heidi Sproat
• 150th Image Additions - by Heidi Sproat
• Donated Propeller - by Heidi Sproat
• ​Book Donation
• ​Albert Bierstadt - by Heidi Sproat
• Remembrance of a Child
• Pilot Claire Vance Updated
• Theodore Roosevelt 1903 Visit - by Heidi Sproat
• 1861 Central Pacific R.R. manuscript map
• Truckee's Ice Palace and Carnival - 1896
• "Rafferty's Bell" - Independence Lake C-47D Oct. 26, 1950 crash - by Heidi Sproat
• August 2020 new discoveries:  Official Road Guide to the Lincoln Highway (1918), a 1948 Presidential visit to Truckee, and a slew of new images from the University of Reno at Nevada online collection.
• Eder:  Fire, Ice and Romance   -  anyone know WHERE Eder is/was? Neither did we until one enterprising researcher unearthed details - new images added 5/27/2020 - by Thomas Viano
• 100 + years ago - the 1918 'Spanish Influenza' Pandemic 
  Moonshine Ink article 5/18/2020 - The Great Plague of 1918 Hit Truckee Like a Runaway Train - by Heidi Sproat

Truckee then ... 1971 ... and now ... 2022