By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian School is now out this week for the summer. The mountains were considered a favorite summer vacation destination for many generations of Southern Californians. Of course, the cooler summer weather in the mountains was the first...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian When the first sawmills were established in the mountains, in the 1850-80s, they were only operated during the good weather months (after the last snow) and closed around harvest time in the valley or at the first snow. Some...
BY RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian J. Putnam Henck spoke to the Rim of the World Historical Society in 1994, sharing his memories of his family and especially his mother, Mary Putman Henck. Despite living in the mountains, and being an older mother, Mary Henck...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian In July 1994, almost 32 years ago, Joseph Putnam Henck (Joseph for his father and Putnam after his mother but was known as Putty) spoke before the Crest Forest Historical Society at Leisure Shores in Crestline. Putty had a...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY HISTORIAN Mary Putnam Henck, after whom the Rim of the World Unified School District’s Intermediate School in Lake Arrowhead was named in 1969, was a very active person her whole life. The naming of the school was a well-earned honor for...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian Joseph E. Henck and his uncle and father purchased the 440 acres that have become Skyforest from the Kuffel family. The Kuffels were an early pioneer family, who have a canyon named for them. They had homesteaded the area...
