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Music, Chautauqua and Local Author at Dangberg Historic Park June 20

Event Date: 
June 20, 2024 - 6:30pm

A concert by The Sierra Sweethearts, a Chautauqua of Laura D. Fair, and local author Gregory Crouch are featured as part of the Dangberg Summer Festival in June.

On Thursday, June 20, from 6:30 – 8:00 pm, The Sierra Sweethearts will play a blend of bluegrass music spiced with humor.

Thursday evening concert ticket prices are $20 for 17 years and older. Youth 16 years and younger are free when accompanied by an adult. Tickets can be purchased at the event. Members of Friends of Dangberg Home Ranch will receive discount pricing and should contact the park for more information. The gate opens at 5:30 pm.

On Friday, June 21, from 10:00-11:00 am, Kim Harris will portray Laura D. Fair who was the owner of Virginia City’s Tahoe House and a convicted murderess.

Four times married, twice widowed, and twice divorced all by the age of 33, Laura D. Fair was the first woman in California sentenced to hang for the murder of her lover, Alexander Parker Crittenden in November of 1870. Arriving in Virginia City, Nevada Territory in 1863, Fair ran the newly built Tahoe House as an upscale boarding house where she met successful San Francisco attorney A. P. Crittenden. Her seven-year affair with Crittenden, and emotional ups and downs led to his murder, for which she was eventually acquitted.

Kim Harris is an accomplished Chautauquan with over 15 years’ experience, having presented local and national historical characters, from California to Bronxville, NY. She is the owner of Western History ALIVE! where she presents the lives of many famous and infamous historical figures.

All Friday morning Chautauquas are free for all to attend.

On Saturday, June 22, from 10:00-11:00 am, The Bonanza King author Gregory Crouch, will discuss Comstock mining legend John Mackay, who got his start in the United States as a destitute Irish immigrant brought to New York City in 1840, when he was 9 years old. Mackay grew up in the notorious Five Points slum, came of age amid the violent mayhem of the California Gold Rush, and rose to the full power of his manhood in the dangerous mines of the Comstock Lode beneath Virginia City, Nevada.

The extraordinary wealth John Mackay extracted from the Comstock Lode drove wild stock market frenzies in San Francisco, and launched his wife, Mary-Louise Mackay, on a meteoric social career among the finest European aristocrats. When John Mackay died in 1902, he was the fifth richest American.

In addition to The Bonanza King, Gregory Crouch is also the author of the true-life World War II flying adventure China’s Wings and the mountaineering memoir Enduring Patagonia. Crouch has published stories in The Atlantic, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Time, the Wall Street Journal, and a host of other national and regional media.

This event is free for all to attend.

Please bring your own seating and no pets allowed – certified service animals only. Guests are welcome to bring a picnic to enjoy as no food or beverages will be sold at these events. All events are held outdoors. For more information on these events, or on visiting Dangberg Historic Park, please visit https://www.Dangberg.org/

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