Gold Hill Hotel & Saloon

Lecture series continues! Rae Davis - Surgeon Jonathan Letterman, the "Father of Modern Military Medicine"
2026-06-18 16:30 - 20:30 UTC
Thursday, June 18th with Surgeon Jonathan Letterman, the “Father of Modern Military Medicine”
We are pleased to continue the 2026 Lecture Series!
Dinner starts at 4:30 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Description: Join Mark and Rae Davis for a discussion about the fascinating life and legacy of Civil War Surgeon Jonathan Letterman that earned him the title, “The Father of Modern Military Medicine,” and how his achievements touch our civilian lives each and every day.
Attendees will get to view both reproduction and original Civil War medical instruments, medicines, weaponry, and more! In addition, we will discuss a little bit about our upcoming documentary on Surgeon Letterman. We promise to deliver a highly interesting talk that you won’t want to miss!
Bio: Rae Davis currently resides in Murphys, Ca, with her husband, Mark She grew up in Calaveras County where she raised her two children. She is also grandmother of one.
In 1990 Rae joined the National Civil War Association, a living history group based in Northern California. At the time, the NCWA was the largest combined Civil War reenactment group in the world. For 8 years she taught the public about the medical practices of the Union Army Medical Service and headed up the speaker’s bureau for the organization. After leaving the NCWA in 1998, Rae continued to lecture at various venues for a few more years. She recently retired from the floral industry after 35 years of designing to continue work in the film industry as a producer. Although she doesn’t get to teach others about the medical practices of the Civil War as much as she’d like to, it is never far from her heart and looks forward to continuing her studies of the subject.
Lecture starts at 7:00 p.m. and costs $10 per person.
Come early and enjoy dinner before the lecture! We Serve dinner before the lecture at 4:30, 5, & 5:30 p.m.
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Lecture Series Continues! Jean-Guy T. Dubé presents "Virginia & Truckee Railroad’s Comstock Lode Depots"
2026-08-20 16:30 - 20:00
We are pleased to continue our 2026 Lecture Series!
Thursday, August 20th lecture will be Jean-Guy T. Dubé on: “Virginia & Truckee Railroad’s Comstock Lode Depots”
Dinner starts at 4:30 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Lecture Description:
Depots of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. The Virginia & Truckee Railroad was born from the riches and needs of the mining industry of the Comstock Lode. Beginning with its first spike driven on September 28, 1869, the railroad carried the ore and riches of Virginia City to Reno. On the return trip, lumber and supplies traveled up to build Virginia City and its mines. The intermediate stop, Carson City, provided service to our mint and state capital. At Reno, it’s connection to the Central Pacific Railroad provided access to our nation’s first transcontinental route.
Passenger and freight depots were integral to this process. We’ll step out on the platforms and inside the depots of Virginia City, Gold Hill, Mound House, Carson City and Reno. Grab your ticket to ride and see the V&T’s depots and wayside structures as we steam down the rails the served Nevada’s Comstock Lode.
Bio of Lecturer:
Jean-Guy T. Dubé works for the State Historic Preservation Office of Nevada as the National and State Register of Historic Places Coordinator. He is a member of the Friends of the Nevada State Railroad Museum, Southern Pacific Historic & Technical Society, the Virginia & Truckee Railroad Historical Society, and many others. Dubé received the national Leicester B. Holland Prize in 2017 from the Library of Congress and National Park Service. He is an author, architectural draftsman and historian. He has studied Southern Pacific depots since 1983 and is the author of Railroad Depots: A Southern Pacific Collection. Mr. Dubé will have copies of his book for sale and signing at the lecture.
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Lecture Series Continues! Kim Harris Chautauqua Performance as "Lizzie Borden"!
2026-09-17 16:30 - 20:30
We are pleased to continue our 2026 Lecture Series!
Thursday, September 18th lecture will be a Chautauqua performance by Kim Harris as “Lizzie Borden – guilty or innocent?”
Dinner starts at 4:30 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Description:
Perhaps one of the most notorious murders of the 19th Century was that of Andrew and Abby Borden. Andrew’s daughter Lizzie was tried and acquitted in a court of law for the axe murders of her father and stepmother in 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. The court of public opinion sentenced her to a life of public scrutiny and branded her a social pariah.
Lizzie A. Borden will share the story of her life in Fall River, her memories of the trial and how she learned to live in a world which had drastically changed for her, once she was acquitted of the murders
Bio:
Kim Harris is currently a resident of Genoa, NV and a longtime local to the surrounding Sierra communities. She was born and raised at Donner Lake, CA.
Performing as a character actress and Chautauquan since 2010 via her business “Western History ALIVE!”, Kim regularly portrays several local and national historic figures which include stagecoach driver Charley Parkhurst, Genoa and Nevada suffragist Lillian Virgin Finnegan, frontierswoman Calamity Jane and Libbie Custer, the wife of General George Armstrong Custer.
Kim has also served on the advisory boards of the Lake Tahoe Historical Society and the Douglas County Historical Society. Presently she is the events manager of Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park in Minden, NV and is the president of the Genoa, NV based Friends of Snowshoe Thompson group.
Lecture starts at 7:00 p.m. and costs $10 per person.
Come early and enjoy dinner before the lecture! We Serve dinner before the lecture at 4:30 p.m., 5:00 p.m., & 5:30
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