Kim Harris kicks off the 2025 Gold Hill Hotel lecture and entertainment series Thursday night March 27th at the Gold Hill Hotel!  She will be doing a Chautauqua performance as Caroline “Cad” Thompson!  Lecture starts at 7 p.m.

Caroline “Cad” Thompson (Bio):

She owned the grandest “Parlor House” in Virginia City, NV during the early days of the Comstock Lode. Caroline “Cad” Thompson was born Sarah Hagen in Ireland, in 1827.

She came to the Comstock a shrewd businesswoman, determined to capitalize on the lustful miners’ need for women. She was beloved by her “girls” and had a raucous sense of humor.

Take a moment or two to listen to some tales of her times on the Comstock, and what it was like to walk in the steps of Mark Twain and the reporters of the Territorial Enterprise Newspaper. Cad’s girls were the best girls on the row!

Kim Harris (Bio):

Kim Harris is an accomplished Chautauquan who has portrayed living history characters at various venues including Genoa Cowboy Festival, Pipers Opera House, the Gold Hill Hotel, Granlibakken, Dangberg Historic Park and The Lake Tahoe Chautauqua Festival.

Harris currently serves as Events Manager at Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park in Minden, NV, and is the owner and operator of Western History ALIVE!  where she portrays several Chautauqua characters including Julia Bulette, Charley Parkhurst, Libbie Bacon Custer and Lizzie Borden.

Harris was born and raised at Donner Lake, CA growing up immersed in the history of our West.  She enjoys not only sharing what she has learned about our history, but continuously learning from those that have lived it themselves.