Living History Day, July 26 @ Ehrman Mansion

Posted on July 9, 2008
Filed Under Cultural Heritage, North Shore Events |

This only happens once a year.

Ehrman Mansion will be open to the public for free!

Here’s your chance to step back in time at one of the most scenic spots along the shore and one of our most famous houses.

Living History Day @ Ehrman Mansion at the
Sugar Pine Point State Park

Saturday, July 26
10am to 4pm

FREE

In addition to local artists in action, kids activities, speakers and historical re-enactments, there will be 2 guided hikes and the showing of Lake of the Sky: The Saga of Lake Tahoe Part II film in the theater.

Ehrman Mansion Open House
Walk through Pine Lodge, the mansion built by Isaias Hellman in 1903. Experience the lavish lifestyle enjoyed by his daughter, Florence Hellman Ehrman, and three generations of family and friends who spent 60 summers at their private lakefront retreat.

Historical Speakers
Join the great-great grand-daughter of Isaias Hellman, Frances Dinkelspiel, in the gazebo at noon for a preview of her book, Towers of Gold: Isaias Hellman and the Creation of California.

Washo elders tell the stories of the original residents of Lake Tahoe.

Artists-in-Residence
Meet local artists Bill Clausen, Andy Skaff, and Cathy McClelland as they work down at the lakefront, painting images of the estate, its buildings, boats, and animal life.

“General” William Phipps’ Cabin
The cabin of the West Shore’s first homesteader from 1860 is open to the public. This is the one day of the year that you can walk into his cabin and view his pioneer life.

Mountain Man
In the grassy area just west of the cabin, another pioneer has set up camp. The dangers of life in the wilderness require proficiency with a rifle which will be part of his black gun powder demonstration.

Vintage Car Display & Vintage Wooden Boats from the Tahoe Maritime Museum

Free Guided Hikes
10:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. - Meet at the nature center for an easy, forty-minute hike to the site of what was the world’s highest light house. This hike goes through the Z’berg Preserve and returns along the lake.

11:30 a.m. - Leave from the nature center and follow the Path of the Water Babies on this completely paved walk along the lake front. This is an easy, thirty-minute stroll into Washoe history.

For more information, click here or call (530) 525-9528.

Ehrman Mansion illustration by Bill Clausen