Lecture Series Continues! "Wicked Virginia City" by Pete Mires
2022-09-15 16:30 - 20:30 UTC
Lecture Series Continues! – Thursday, September 15th with Pete Mires “Wicked Virginia City “
Dinner starts at 4:30 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Description: Perched on the side of a mountain in the Nevada desert, Virginia City existed for one reason only: to make money. The mining frenzy of the mid-nineteenth century uncovered veins of precious metals that would be expressed in billions today, attracting the enterprising madam Cad Thompson, the charismatic highwayman Nickanora and a plethora of swindlers. Miners, flush with their wages, supported a healthy economy of gambling, drinking, and prostitution and even launched a few political careers. Sam Clemens, who became Mark Twain while reporting for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, called it “the livest town that America had ever produced.” Join author Peter B. Mires as he explores the seamy side of this quintessential mining boomtown. He will be selling and signing copies of his book Wicked Virginia City at the event.
BIO: Peter B. Mires, a Vermont native, first came out west in 1990 and has been fascinated with northern Nevada ever since. He received his Ph.D. in historical geography from Louisiana State University in 1988 and subsequently taught at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, the University of Delaware, and Western Nevada College. His publications include six books and more than fifty scholarly articles, book reviews, and op-ed pieces. Dr. Mires is retired and lives in Reno, and when not reading or writing he may be found hiking the Tahoe Rim Trail or exploring the Nevada outback.
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2022 Lecture Series Continues! "Nevada Black Bears" by Carl Lackey
2022-07-21 16:30 - 20:30
Lecture Series Continues – Thursday, July 21st with Lackey’s “Nevada Black Bears”
We are pleased to continue the 2022 Lecture Series!
Dinner starts at 4:30 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Carl Lackey, a wildlife biologist with Nevada Department of Wildlife, has been studying bears since 1997. He will present the recent history of black bears in the state and the current conservation of the species.
Black bears have been in Nevada long before we lived here, but by the early 1900s they had been exterminated from the state. Conservation efforts and habitat regeneration allowed black bears to begin coming back into Nevada and reinhabit their old stomping grounds. Carl will give us a unique perspective on the current state of the black bears in Nevada and the efforts being made to prevent us from repeating the past!
Lecture starts at 7:00 p.m. and costs $10 per person.
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2022 Lecture Series Continues! ** Thursday, June 2nd, Featuring “Frank Sinatra, the Rat Pack, Mobsters and the Rest of the Story” by Guy W. Farmer
2022-06-02 16:30 - 20:30
2022 Lecture Series Continues – Thursday, June 2nd, Guy Farmer with Special Guests Mike Fischer and Mike Archer bring to conclusion the Frank Sinatra Cal-Neva Story!
Dinner starts at 4:30 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Description: Guy W. Farmer, the Nevada Appeal’s award-winning political columnist, will speak on “Frank Sinatra, Mobsters and the Cal-Neva Adventure”
Learn all the sordid details firsthand of how Nevada’s gaming control agencies revoked Sinatra’s gambling license for hosting Chicago Godfather Sam “Momo” Giancana at North Lake Tahoe’s Cal-Neva Lodge and Casino.
Mike Fischer and Mike Archer will help tell the other side of the story and how Frank Sinatra did eventually regain his Nevada Gaming License. It will be a fun evening as the story unfolds from both sides perspective!
Bio: Guy W. Farmer, the Nevada Appeal’s award-winning political columnist grew up in Seattle and graduated from the University of Washington Journalism School, worked for daily newspapers in Washington and Oregon before coming to Carson City in January, 1962, as Associated Press (AP) capital correspondent.
In 1963 Gov. Grant Sawyer hired him as public information officer for the Nevada Gaming Commission and State Gaming Control Board. Farmer was the “bug” on the phone line when Frank Sinatra called Gaming Board Chairman Edward A. Olsen in a failed attempt to head-off revocation of the singer’s gambling license for hosting Giancana, who was listed in the state’s famous “Black Book” of unsavory characters — gangsters, that is!
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Lecture Series Continues! “Capitalism Lost: The Systemic Road to Recovery” by Corrado DeGasperis
2022-05-19 16:30 - 20:30
Lecture Series Continues – Thursday, May 19th with Corrado DeGasperis’ – “Capitalism Lost: The Systemic Road to Recovery”
We are pleased to continue the 2022 Lecture Series!
Dinner starts at 4:30 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Description: Mr. DeGasperis will present a current and compelling view of capitalism and how current practices, paradigms and short term views (greed and fear) are undermining society and how a more sustainable, systemic view of capitalism and our society must pervade for society, as we know it, to sustain and prosper. This presentation aggressively challenge current norms, including economic, monetary and accounting policies and usually result in lively debates with the audience.
Bio: Mr. DeGasperis is Executive Chairman, Comstock Mining Inc., since September 2015, President and Chief Executive Officer since April 2010, also a founding member and the Chairman of the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture, a 501(c)3, not-for profit organization dedicated to the preservation and restoration of Comstock Lode Historic District and the Chairman of the Virginia City Tourism Commission.
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Lecture/ Entertainment Series Continues! Gus Fincel "Nevada Territory Vigilance Committee 1858-1887 Part 1"
2022-04-07 16:30 - 20:30
2022 Lecture/ Entertainment Series Continues! “Nevada Vigilance Committee 1858-1887 Part 1″ by Gus Fincel – Special Guest David John!
Thursday, April 7th
Dinner starts at 4:30 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m. $10 each
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Lecture Notes:
The presenter of this lecture, Gus Fincel, is a member of the historical community services non-profit organization, known as “601 Vigilance Committee” in Virginia City. He will be sharing some insights in his lecture on the historical perspectives of the Vigilance Committees of the Nevada Territory as well as the State of Nevada after statehood. Gus has been a member of the “601” since 2009, served as compliance officer for six years and three terms as Chairman. His insights into the history of Vigilance Committees of Nevada is unique, thought provoking and an exciting trek though local history.
Joining Gus with various solo musical complements is David John. David is a musician, song writer, and owner of Aztec Records. With extensive experience in the music industry as a song writer in Nashville and Los Angles, he has performed for over 40 years.
His classic western songs about the American West and Westward expansion in the 81850’s will definitely add to the evenings enjoyment.
Bio:
A U.S Marine veteran, 35 years in law enforcement veteran, Gus held previous positions as an Deputy Sheriff, Officer, Sergeant, Lieutenant, Captain, Assistant Chief and Deputy Chief as a Division Commander. He was a founding member of the California Peace Officers Killing and Assault Task force at the Peace Officer Standards and Training for the State of California. Gus is a Nationally recognized expert witness for State and Federal courts involving police policies, procedures, weapons and officer safety tactics.
He has over 43 books, numerous archived newspaper articles and manuscripts dating back to the 1850’s involving the history of Nevada and the American Western expansion of the era including the Comstock.
Lecture starts at 7:00 p.m. and costs $10 per person.
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Joe Curtis presentation tonight! "If Sutro Tunnel Is not a Tunnel then what is it?!"
2021-10-07 16:30 - 20:30
2021 Lecture/ Entertainment Series Continues! – Thursday, October 7th, Joe Curtis with “If Sutro Tunnel Is not a Tunnel then what is it?!”
– Part 1 October 7th
-Part 2 November 18th
Dinner starts at 4:30 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Lecture Description: It’s a presentation, not a lecture. As such, he may have some prizes available for those that participate! This is the first part of the presentation about the research Joe has conducted about the Sutro Tunnel and his experience as a guide. The second and final part of the presentation will be Thursday November 18th, here at the Gold Hill Hotel.
A Nevada wonder that everyone wonders about. A photo review and open discussion about the 5 W’s of an amazing project in support of the Comstock workings. A project that cost $14 per inch ($336.00 today) to dig the 3.88 miles from Dayton Valley to the Savage Mine in the 1870’s.
Bio – Joe Curtis: Joe arrived from Carson City in 1958 with his parents who opened an historical museum in VC and thus Joe was steeped in the history of the Comstock. He began collecting old photos and old original source history materials as a teenager.
Joe is a purist in the history of the Comstock. Myths are fun and ok but need to be so identified. He has worked with Discover, National Geographic, History Channel and Smithsonian on Comstock history as well as a number of private documentaries and authors.
He served several years in the Army, retiring from Carson City Sheriff’s Dept. Joe operated the Mark Twain Bookstore for 22 years, has his own graphics and sign business and currently serve as the Director of Emergency Management for Storey County.
If it’s Comstock history, Joe is on it!
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Last lecture of the year! "Beyond the Tunnel" About Adolph Sutro - by author Mark Stern
2019-11-21 17:00 - 20:30
Last lecture of the year! – Thursday, November 21st with Mark Stern’s “Beyond the Tunnel” A book presentation & lecture about Adolph Sutro
We are pleased to continue the 2019 Lecture Series with the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture!
Dinner starts at 5:00 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Adolph Sutro was famous for three things: the tunnel under the Comstock Silver Mines which bore his name; his dominance over the real property in San Francisco where he owned one twelfth of the city’s real estate; and his election as Mayor of that city. Earlier biographical treatments of Sutro concentrated upon construction of the tunnel and devoted little space to his other accomplishments. This book emphasizes the years after he had left the tunnel project and tells the story of a great entrepreneur in real estate, entertainment and community leadership against dedicated enemies.
Bio: Mark Abbott Stern is a mechanical engineer (Purdue University, 1951) who spent 38 years in the aerospace business before writing his first book – also a biography – about David Franks, a merchant in Philadelphia during the 1700’s who supplied meals and other materials to the British Army from the French & Indian War through the Colonial period and the Revolutionary War. Since retiring from aerospace, Stern spends a portion of each week servicing pianos in the workshop of a prominent re-builder. When he can find the time, he enjoys playing tennis.
Lecture starts at 7:00 p.m. and costs $5 per person.
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Lecture Series Continues! "Dominique Laxalt, An Iron Man that Started in a Wooden Wagon" by Mike Fischer
2019-08-01 17:00 - 20:30
Lecture Series Continues – Thursday, August 1st with Mike Fischer’s “Dominique Laxalt, An Iron Man that Started in a Wooden Wagon”
We are pleased to continue the 2019 Lecture Series with the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture!
Dinner starts at 5:00 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
The legendary Laxalt family is well known in Nevada. In many ways, Dominique Laxalt is the prototypical Basque. Leaving his homeland to seek economic opportunity in America, he struggled but through hard work and perseverance, succeeded against long odds. There is no way that could have occurred without the aid of his wife, Theresa. The program follows the ups and downs of of the Laxalt family’s journey and ends with the successes of the next Laxalt generation as Theresa and Dominique go to their final rewards!
Bio: Mike Fischer, a life long Nevadan and former Dental Surgeon, Once retired he served as the “Director of the Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs” under Governor Gibbons and Governor Sandoval’s Cabinet until the department was formally disbanded. He is now an independent scholar whose interests include the history of Nevada, cowboys, ranching, politics, bootlegging, gambling and crime.
Lecture starts at 7:00 p.m. and costs $5 per person.
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Lecture Series Continues! Neal Cobb with “Harold’s Club” Nevada’s Oldest Casino Remembered”
2019-05-16 17:00 - 20:30
Lecture Series Continues – Thursday, May 16th with Neal Cobb’s “Harold’s Club” Nevada’s Oldest Casino Remembered
We are pleased to continue the 2019 Lecture Series with the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture!
Dinner starts at 5:00 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
To a fast-buck carnival man like Raymond I. (Pappy) Smith, it was like the ring of a silver dollar when Nevada legalized gambling back in the 1930’s. He didn’t know much about casino games, but he figured he couldn’t go wrong by sending his sons to Reno to set up shop with a couple of nickel slot machines and a penny roulette game.
Even in the midst of the Great Depression, the pioneer venture in a small room fronting North Virginia Street showed promise.
Pappy promoted “The Biggest Little City in the World” far and wide. “Harold’s Club or Bust” signs featuring the outline of a Conestoga wagon soon appeared in remote corners of the world.
Business became so good that he built a seven-story tower billed as the “World’s Largest Casino.” The place had a Western theme, and employees dressed in Western garb to complete the effect.
The biggest slot machine pay-out was a jackpot on which the reels showed pictures of the Smiths. The casino’s off-the-wall promotions included “mouse roulette,’ in which the winner would be decided by a mouse crawling out of a hole and resting on a certain number.
It was 50 years ago this March that Harold Smith Sr. and Raymond I. Smith opened Harold’s Club, Nevada’s oldest casino.
Bio: Neal Cobb was born in Reno in 1939. As an adult he worked in the family business Modern Photo. Worked at KNEV-FM 95.5, Dec 25 1953 – 1980 which was Nevada’s first “Successful” FM station.
Neal served four years with the U.S. Navy as Radioman, later as a craps dealer at Harold’s Club, eight years on Board of Adjustment Washoe County, eight years Washoe County Planning Commission, eleven years City of Reno Historical Resources Commission, and recognized author of two books “Reno Now and Then”, books 1 and II, and as an integral part of the Nevada Historical Society since 1988.
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Lecture series Continues! Bert Bedeau with "Hucksters and Bohos and Hippies, Oh My!"
2019-04-18 19:00 - 20:30
Lecture Series Continues – Thursday, April 18th! “Hucksters and Bohos and Hippies, Oh My!” by Bert Bedeau
We are pleased to continue the 2019 Lecture Series with the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture
Please note this lecture WILL NOT be at the Gold Hill Hotel.
It will be at the: Comstock History Center
20 North “E” Street
Virginia City, NV 89440
Lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Most people are familiar with the 19th century story of the Comstock–silver strikes, miners, Mark Twain, John Mackey, bonanza and borracsa! But there is more to the story. How did a dying mining town of a few hundred souls change into the tourist mecca that we know today?
The tale is as fascinating as the stories of mining glory. Come hear about Hucksters and Bohos and Hippies, Oh My! As told by your friendly neighborhood preservation bureaucrat Bert Bedeau.
Bio: Presented by Michael A. “Bert” Bedeau who has served as the District Administrator for the Comstock Historic District Commission in Virginia City since 1999. Previously he worked for the State Historic Preservation offices in Idaho and South Dakota. He holds a BA in History from Occidental College and an MA in Historic Preservation Studies from Boston University.
Lecture starts at 7:00 p.m. and costs $5 per person.
To sign up for this exciting lecture please email Steven Saylor: steven@comstockfoundation.org

Final Lecture of the Season! Gregory Crouch with "The Bonanza King" - John Mackay - Sold Out!
2018-11-29 17:00 - 20:30
This will be the final lecture of the 2018 Season with the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture!
Thursday, November 29th lecture will be Gregory Crouch with: “The Bonanza King” – John Mackay

** This lecture is sold out! Sorry, we cannot take anymore reservations **

Dinner starts at 5:00 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
In his talk, Gregory Crouch will discuss local-legend John Mackay, who got his start in the United States as a destitute Irish immigrant brought here when he was 9 years old. Mackay grew up in New York City’s Five Points slum (“The Gangs of New York neighborhood), came of age amid the violent mayhem of the California Gold Rush, and rose to the full power of his manhood in the deep, rich, and outrageously dangerous mines of the Comstock Lode beneath Virginia City and Gold Hill, Nevada, the ultimate Old West boomtowns.
On the Comstock, Mackay worked his way up from nothing, battling the pernicious “Bank Ring” of California capitalists who’d monopolized the lode, and struck the legendary Big Bonanza, a stupendously valuable body of gold and silver ore buried 1,500 feet below the center of the town.
The extraordinary wealth Mackay extracted from the Comstock Lode drove wild stock market frenzies in San Francisco and launched his wife, whose beginnings were every bit as humble as his own, on a meteoric social career among the finest European aristocrats. When John Mackay died in 1902—with a personal fortune equivalent to about $50 billion modern dollars—front page obituaries all over Europe and the United States hailed him as one of the most admired Americans of the age.
Speaker/ Bio: Gregory Crouch is an author who specializes in adventurous and historic subjects. He has five major books in publication.
He has published stores in The Atlantic, National Geographic, National Geographic Adventure, Smithsonian, Time, American History, World War II, Islands, Outside, Popular Mechanics, Backpacker, and many other national and regional media, and dozens of adventure stories for Rock & Ice, Ascent, Alpinist, and Climbing.
In 1988, Gregory Crouch graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he studied military history.
He lives in Walnut Creek, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.

Lecture Series Continues! "The Great Flume Ride" by Tony Ilradi
2018-11-15 17:00 - 20:30
We are pleased to continue our 2018 Lecture Series with the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture!
Thursday, November 15th lecture will be Tony Ilradi on: “The Great Flume Ride”

Dinner starts at 5:00 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
In 1875, an East Coast newspaperman was treated to the trip of a lifetime. H.J. Ramsdell, a New York Tribune reporter, was assigned to Virginia City to report on the Comstock. He got more of a story than he bargained for.
While touring the various mining works, mining magnate John Mackay suggested Ramsdell visit to his company’s flume. Two days later, Ramsdell met with Mackay’s partners, James Fair and James Flood, in Virginia City. Joining them on the trip was John Hereford, the contractor who built the big flume. Flood and Fair challenged Ramsdell to join them for a ride down the flume by hog trough. Hog troughs were crude boats, V-shaped like the flume and 16 feet long. The 200-pound reporter could not believe what he was hearing, but he thought, “If men worth 25 to 30 million dollars apiece could afford to risk their lives, I could afford to risk mine which is not worth half as much.” For a bit of comfort, two small boards were installed as seats.
One experienced flume shooter warned, “A flume has no element of safety. You cannot stop, you cannot lessen your speed; you have only to sit still, shut your eyes, say your prayers, take all the water that comes…and wait for eternity.”
Reporter Ramsdell was able to write a good story, but his main satisfaction came from the fact that his wealthy hosts were so battered and sore, they could not get out of bed the next day.
Bio:
Tony Ilradi is a historian, lecturer, cowboy poet, musician who has entertained folks across the nation for over 25 years. And, a former employee of Sierra Pacific Power / NV Energy before that.
Lecture starts at 7:00 p.m. and costs $5 per person.
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Lecture series continues! The Life & Times of George Hearst / Comstock Miner, by Fred Holabird
2018-11-01 17:00 - 20:30
We are pleased to continue our 2018 Lecture Series with the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture!
Thursday, November 1st lecture will be Fred Holabird on: “The Life & Times of George Hearst / Comstock Miner”

Dinner starts at 5:00 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
George Hearst of Comstock fame was raised in a log cabin on his family’s farm in rural Missouri.
He headed to California in 1850 for the gold rush. In the summer of 1859, Hearst learned of the wonderful silver assays of the “blue stuff” on what was to become the Comstock Lode. Hearst hurried over to the Comstock where he arranged to buy a one-sixth interest in the Ophir Mine. That winter, Hearst and his partners managed to mine 38 tons of high-grade silver ore, packed it across the Sierra on muleback, had it smelted in San Francisco, and made $91,000 profit, or roughly $2,500,000 in 2016 dollars.
Our guest lecturer , Fred Holabird is well know Nationally as a historian and antiquities specialist.
Lecture starts at 7:00 p.m. and costs $5 per person.
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Lecture series continues! Larry Martin with “Gold is where you find it, or not”
2018-10-18 17:00 - 20:30
We are pleased to continue our 2018 Lecture Series with the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture!
Thursday, October 18th lecture will be Larry Martin on: Metal Detectors, Visual Observation, Buried Treasure and “Gold is where you find it, or not”

Dinner starts at 5:00 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
This fascinating lecture will discuss and demonstrate how to visually identify gold and silver on the surface of the ground and better yet how to find it with a metal detector.
I think we all agree on one thing with regards to digging for gold and treasure – finding it quickly & regularly isn’t possible without the best gold detector. There’s no two-ways about it, investing in a less than adequate device simply isn’t going to work and will likely end in nothing more than sheer frustration.
Larry’s lecture and demonstration is to ease the burden for budding newbies and also the more experienced who are interested in improving their chances of finding gold.
Various metal detectors will be demonstrated at the lecture. Bring your detectors to the lecture and let’s have some fun testing them out.
Bio:
Larry Martin – Currently: Director of Exploration and Chief Geologist Comstock Mining Inc, Virginia City, NV
Born and raised in northwest Kansas. Graduated Colorado School of Mines: BSc. Geologic Engineering & minor in Mining Engineering
Certified Professional Geologist / American Institute of Professional Geologist
39 years professional experience in mining or related geological and engineering disciplines. Assigned to several Nevada mines ranging from early grass root exploration, to development and expansion phases: Borealis, Manhattan, Hog Ranch, Olinghouse, Granstville, Rawhide, Sleeper, Comstock
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Lecture series continues! Cliff Jennings with "Mysteries of the Hale & Norcross Mine: Waste Trestles, Bins & Dumps"
2018-10-04 17:00 - 20:30
We are pleased to continue our 2018 Lecture Series with the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture!
Thursday, October 4th lecture will be Cliff Jennings on: “Mysteries of the Hale & Norcross Mine: Waste Trestles, Bins & Dumps”
A Story of Site Observations, Model Making and Comstock-V&T History

Dinner starts at 5:00 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Lecture Description:
In its heyday, the Comstock’s major mines were visually dominant and architecturally striking. But when one attempts to make a scale model of one, questions emerge that drives one to research. Archival photos and drawings are crucial, and site investigations gives clarity. But once in a while, one ends up with a bigger stack of questions then at the start.
This is a story of one such mine, and the attempt to research and model it: The Hale & Norcross, ca. 1890. It is also a story of observations on the ground and from the air; over the Internet and via email. All will help in understanding the structure and making a model of them. And during the process, a story will emerge of a mysterious little shed whose remains still reside on an man-made hilltop in Virginia City, Nevada.
Lecturer Bio:
Cliff Jennings is a mechanical designer living in Maryland. Raised in California and about ten years ago, his interest returned to Comstock mining and the V&T Railroad. His hobby has become his passion with a mix of model railroading, V&T history and the research and modeling of Comtock mines in their prime.
Lecture starts at 7:00 p.m. and costs $5 per person.
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Lecture Series Continues! Corrado De Gasperis with "Gold and Money"
2018-09-20 17:00 - 20:30
We are pleased to continue our 2018 Lecture Series with the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture!
Thursday, September 20th lecture will be Corrado De Gasperis on: “Gold and Money”
Dinner starts at 5:00 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Lecture Description:
Monetary policy is one of the most impactful, powerful regulatory tool that, when combined with destructive practices in the financial, banking, capital markets and money management industries, threatens the sustainability of capitalism and fundamentally the quality and manner of our lives. Mr. DeGasperis will challenge the assumptions around these monetary practices, expose the implications of reckless and irresponsible fiscal policies, at all levels of government, and discuss gold and other alternative currencies (Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, etc.) role in the global monetary system, and ultimately, their immediate, near-term and potential implication on Nevada.
Lecturer Bio:
Corrado De Gasperis has been President and CEO of Comstock Mining since April 2010, and appointed to the Board of Directors in June 2011, and its Executive Chairman in September 2015.
Mr. DeGasperis is a founding member and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture and is also a Director of the Gold Hill Hotel Inc., the most historic, continuously operating Hotel in Nevada. He is also the Vice Chairman of the Virginia City Tourism Commission the Northern Nevada Development Authority and the Northern Nevada Network.
He brings almost 30 years of industrial metals and precious mining, operational and financial management and capital markets experience.
Lecture starts at 7:00 p.m. and costs $5 per person.
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Lecture series Continues! "History of the Virginia City Gold Hill Water Company"
2018-09-06 17:00 - 20:30
We are pleased to continue our 2018 Lecture Series with the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture!
Thursday, September 6th lecture will be James Bonar on: “History of the Virginia City Gold Hill Water Company”
Dinner starts at 5:00 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Lecture Description:
In the 1860’s when the Comstock got it’s start, water on the Comstock was as precious as gold.
This lecture speaks to the early days and then the construction of the water system from Lake Marlette to Virginia City, still in use today.
This visual presentation and educational lecture explores the history of Comstock water and the development of this amazing gravity flow project.
Bio – James Bonar
James Bonar, a Nevada resident for over thirty years, his interest is to protect and teach the legacy of our history. He served as President of the Nevada Chapter of the LHA, Lincoln Highway, and then Nevada State Director.
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Lecture series Continues! "Camels on the Comstock" by Eric Moody
2018-08-16 17:00 - 20:30
We are pleased to continue our 2018 Lecture Series with the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture!
Thursday, August 16th lecture will be Eric Moody on: “The Virginia City-Austin Camel Freight Business of the 1860s”
Dinner starts at 5:00 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Lecture Description:
Just about everyone who’s been in Nevada for a while is aware that camels were used here in the nineteenth century as beasts of burden. Mostly they were seen in and around Virginia City and the other communities of the Comstock during the 1860s and 1870s. It’s also pretty well known that the 1875 state legislature passed a law prohibiting camels from the main streets of towns because they spooked horses.
Less well known is the story of the camels’ use in the major freighting business that developed between Virginia City and Austin in central Nevada in the early 1860’s. Austin was the most important mining center outside the Comstock, and between 1863 and 1869, when the transcontinental railroad extended its tracks across the state, great quantities of goods were hauled eastward to Austin and its neighboring mining camps – and tons of salt were carried westward for use in the Comstock mills. The hauling was done by freight wagons, stage coaches, and pack trains of mules, burros – and camels.
This illustrated presentation takes a look at the Comstock-Austin camel freighting activity of the 1860’s – and the personalities involved, documenting an unusual and largely forgotten episode of Nevada history.

Bio: Eric Moody
I have been a resident of northern Nevada since 1968, when I came to Reno to attend the University of Nevada. After living in Reno, then Washoe Valley (for 25 years), I now reside in Sparks, where I serve on the board of trustees of the Sparks Museum.
For thirty years I worked at the Nevada Historical Society in Reno, as Curator of Manuscripts, and then as acting Director the last two years before I retired. During this time I also taught history classes for Truckee Meadows Community College, Western Nevada College, Old College, and Chapman College (now elevated to University).
I’m presently a partner in Nevada in the West Publishing, which produces periodicals and books about the Silver State’s fascinating past. From 2010 to 2017 I was editor of Nevada in the West magazine; I’ve since graduated to the editorial chair of the Reese River Reveille (a magazine-style revival of the pioneer Austin, Nevada, newspaper that began in 1863).
I have written widely in the fields of Nevada and Western history, with books that include a biography of Nevada governor Vail Pittman; Western Carpetbagger: The Extraordinary Memoirs of “Senator” Thomas Fitch; Flanigan: Anatomy of a Railroad Ghost Town; a study of early casino gambling in Nevada (1931-1945); and Brewed in Nevada: A History of Nevada’s Beers and Breweries (a booklet coauthored with Robert Nylen).
The last time I lectured at the Gold Hill Hotel was back in 1999 – almost twenty years ago. Not wanting to wear out my welcome, I have strategically spaced my appearances….
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Special Lecture Tonight! "Most Intrepid Author’s Posse"
2018-07-26 17:00 - 20:30
We will be hosting a special lecture tonight for our 2018 Lecture Series with the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture!
Thursday, July 26th we will host the “Most Intrepid Author’s Posse”
Dinner starts at 6:00 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Lecture Description:
The Most Intrepid Western Author’s Posse is comprised of four published, award-winning western authors who love to tell exciting tales of the Old West – some true, some with a twist.
Take a literary ride with the Author’s Posse as they travel from across the west into Gold Hill on July 26 where they will speak at the Gold Hill Hotel.
Stories told by the posse promise to transport readers back to the days of the wild frontier when times were rowdy and justice was swift. The Posse will be discussing their books and the taming of the Wild West. Their books will be for sale at each stop and the authors will be available to sign them.
Bios of Lecturers Include:
Monty McCord author of Mundy’s Law: The Legend of Joe Mundy and Hastings: The Queen of the Plains;
Sherry Monahan author of Mrs. Earp: The Wives and Lovers of the Earp Brothers, The Cowboy Cookbook, and Frontier Fare;
Bill Markley, author of Deadwood Dead Men and Dakota Epic: Experiences of a Reenactor During the Filming of Dances with Wolves;
Chris Enss, author of The Pinks: The First Female Operatives, Detectives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, The Principles of Posse Management: Lessons from the Old West for Today’s Leaders, Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West, Hearts West: Mail Order Brides of the Old West, and Object Matrimony: The Risky Business of Mail-Order Matchmaking on the Western Frontier.
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Lecture Series Continues! Tonight’s – Paul Franklin's “Anatomy of an Ingot"
2018-07-19 17:00 - 20:30
We are pleased to continue our 2018 Lecture Series with the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture!
Thursday, July 19th lecture will be Paul Franklin’s “Anatomy of an Ingot”
Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Lecture Description:
Follow an investigation of a mysterious ingot and the three mining engineers and assayers on a journey that takes you back to the early mining days of the West.
Their careers, spanning the second half of the 19th century, intersected much of the early mining history in California and the territories of Arizona and Nevada in addition to meeting some of the important figures of the period.
Bio of Lecturer:
Paul Franklin has been an executive in the semiconductor industry for over 45 years. Now retired, he still consults, splitting his time between several start-ups and his passion, Western Americana History, especially researching mining and its technology in the west.
Following his Western Americana passion, he has published articles in professional journals, been a guest lecturer at UNR and appeared on the local TV program: Old tales of Nevada: Past and Present.
He recently published his first book, Anatomy of an Ingot, which follows the careers of three mining engineers and assayers who figured significantly in Nevada’s early silver mining boom.
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Lecture Series Continues! Tonight’s – "Tuned Up and Twisted Cowboy Poetry at it's Best" By Tony Argento
2018-07-05 17:00 - 20:30
We are pleased to continue our 2018 Lecture Series with the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture!
Thursday, July 5th lecture will be Tony Argento with: “Tuned Up and Twisted Cowboy Poetry at it’s Best”
Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Lecture Description:
Tony calls his style o’ recitin’; ‘TUNED UP & TWISTED.” Once you see him perform, you’ll know why.
Tony is a nationally recognized Cowboy Poet. “COWBOY POETRY” has been ‘round since the years followin’ the Civil War. It’s unique form continues to show the Cowboy an’ the American West is alive with stories o’ elevated humor, PATRIOTISM, serious an’ solemn verse. It’s a GREAT source o’ entertainment for the entire family.
Bio of Lecturer:
Tony is a nationally recognized Cowboy Poet. He was introduced to “COWBOY POETRY” from his Granddad. From that point forward, he began recitin’ ‘at age .
The “Kamikaze Cow” poetry/song/story contest an’ the “Overall Audience Entertainment Value” competition; (voted upon by the audience).
An’ featured Cowboy Poet of the 2013 “National Day O’ The Cowboy” celebration at the Kenniwick, Washington “Cowboy Gatherin’” on the Columbia River.
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Lecture Series Continues! Tonight’s - “A Travel through time” by Neal Cobb
2018-06-21 17:00 - 20:00
We are pleased to continue our 2018 Lecture Series with the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture!
Thursday, June 21st lecture will be Neal Cobb with a: “Travel through time”
Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Lecture Description:
This exciting lecture will give you a visual presentation of Virginia City from the 1870’s through the 1940’s and beyond. Through old photos, many not seen previously, a unique look inside some of the saloons and stores that existed here in the 30’s and 40’s, and buildings that are no longer with us. Also presented are photos of the boardwalk and the surrounding hills as a setting for the staging of a pretty young model.
The disastrous World Premier of the 1940’s Warner Brothers movie, “Virginia City” staring Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott and Humphrey Bogart and how they weren’t all that welcome in VC.
Also featured are photos of the October 31st 1945 running of the Lions Club V&T train. 1946 festivals with the greased pole and a drilling contest along with an “artist’s competition” painting of Piper’s Opera House featuring a large audience with funny expressions watching intently.
Bio of Lecturer:
Neal Cobb was born in Reno in 1939. As an adult, he worked in the family business, “Modern Photo.” Then worked at KNEV-FM 95.5, from December, 1953 to 1980, which was Nevada’s first “Successful” FM radio station.
Neal served four years with the U.S. Navy as a Radioman, and later as a craps dealer at Harolds Club, eight years on the Board of Adjustment, Washoe County, eight years Washoe County Planning Commission, eleven years City of Reno Historical Resources Commission, and a recognized author of two books “Reno Now and Then”, books 1 and II, and as an integral part of the Nevada Historical Society since 1988.
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Comstock Foundation Lecture Series Continues! "Nevada State Trooper" A 1950's NBC TV series - EVENT SOLD OUT!
2018-05-03 17:00 - 20:30
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Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Lecture Description:
This NBC TV series “State Trooper”, featured three episodes, 22 minutes each, on the Comstock taking place in Virginia City and Silver City. During this lecture Scott will introduce the series, give a little back round on the series, and then we will actually watch the 3 episodes! After that, Scott will take questions from the audience.

1. 1956 “Meeting at Julia’s” – About the “Comstock Lode Mine” payroll robbery of $40,000.00 in Silver City. Great shots of the DeltaSaloon, Bucket of Blood, C Street and Badwater Bill and his Donkey.

2. 1959 “The Silver Spiral” – Escaped mental patient kidnaps his nice from Piper’s Opera House. Great shots of Storey County Court House, Visitors Center, Territorial Enterprise with publishers Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg playing themselves. The Virginia Garage, Crown Point Mill and American Flat Mill.

3. 1959 “The Trap that Jack Built” – Murder at the mill. Do you know what a “bear set” is? You will! Almost exclusively filmed at the Dayton Consolidated Mill in Silver City while still in pristine condition. Great shots of Virginia City and the 4th Ward School.
Speaker:
Scott Jolcover is Comstock Mining’s General Site Manager and the Director of Business Development. He has been working in Nevada mining for over 38 years, including the last 22 with Comstock Mining Inc., and one of its predecessors, The Plum Mining Co. LLC. Mr. Jolcover has extensive real estate transaction experience and worked as a licensed agent. He currently serves on the Board of Nevada Works and was formerly the Chairman of the Virginia City Tourism Commission in Storey County and is a member of the Northern Nevada Development Authority Construction and Design Committee.
Lecture starts at 7:00 p.m. and costs $5 per person.
Come early and enjoy dinner before the lecture! We Serve dinner starting at 4 p.m. and the last seating before the lecture is 6 p.m.

Lecture Series Continues! "Logging on the Comstock, Fire Management, and What to Expect in the Future"
2018-03-15 17:30 - 20:30
We are pleased to continue our 2018 Lecture Series with the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture!
This year, we will be holding the lecture series on the First & Third Thursday’s of the month – each month – until November 15th
Tonight’s lecture will be: “Logging on the Comstock, Fire Management, and What to Expect in the Future”
Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
Description:
Logging history and fire have changed the landscape and the forests of Northern Nevada, and going forward they are the two most important management issues to consider.
Literally, hundreds of millions of board feet of lumber were used in the mines on the Comstock.
We can learn a great deal about the future by taking a close look at what has happened since gold was discovered in the area around 1852. The Conservation Movement, the creation of the US Forest Service, the Environmental Movement have all taken place since the Mining Era and changed everything.

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Scott Imus is a retired environmental consultant with an MS in Forestry from the University of Washington. Been in Nevada since 1987.
Lecture starts at 7:00 p.m. and costs $5 per person.
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Lecture Series Starts Tonight! “Prostitution, Vice Lords, Drugs, Crime, Politicians and Kickbacks”
2018-03-01 18:00 - 20:30
We are pleased to announce the start of the 2018 Lecture Series with the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture!
This year, we will be holding the lecture series on the First & Third Thursday’s of the month – each month – until November 15th
Tonight’s lecture will be: “Prostitution, Vice Lords, Drugs, Crime, Politicians and Kickbacks”
Reno and Storey County 1900 – 1950
Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.
This lecture is an eye opener into our colored past.
Reno held national prominence and influence with Vice Lords, drugs, crime, prostitution and kickbacks in high political places.
The Vice Lords literally owned and operated Reno the biggest city in the State.
The speaker, Mike Fischer, a life long Nevadan and former Dental Surgeon, Once retired he served as the “Director of the Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs” under Governor Gibbons and Governor Sandoval’s Cabinet until the department was formally disbanded.
He is now an independent scholar whose interests include the history of Nevada, cowboys, ranching, politics, bootlegging, gambling and crime.
Lecture starts at 7:00 p.m. and costs $5 per person.
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Candace Wheeler talk on Comstock Cemeteries
2017-11-16 17:30 - 20:30
Candace Wheeler continues our lecture series tonight with a talk about the Comstock Cemeteries.
Candace Wheeler has been the executive director for the Comstock Cemetery Foundation for nearly 20 years. She is a Historical Geographer and the subject of her thesis was the Silver Terrace cemeteries in Virginia City. Candace will provide a different perspective on our relationship with cemeteries and historic landscapes and provide a better understanding of the role of “sense of place” in their development.
Cemeteries, studied, analyzed, and experienced, touch the human senses and convey a sense of place for both the past and the present. For the Silver Terrace cemeteries the evolution from cemetery for the mourner to a tourist destination has been a 150 year, sixty-five-acre, human tale of interaction with a regional cemetery landscape.
Analyzing cemeteries plays an integral role in increasing our knowledge and understanding of the thoughts, feelings, ideas, and value systems of people who interacted with the landscapes of the past. Understanding how landscapes were created and how they evolved is the story of our relationship with the land and with death.
November 16th at 7:00 PM. It will be an interesting evening! Discover the Comstock Cemeteries! See sign up form below:
Please note that we have only 50 total seats for people to see the lecture. Due to the crazy interest in the lecture series, and the fact that we are selling out each week, we will have to closely monitor the sign ups for this lecture series.
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Lecture Tonight! The SS Central America Treasure - by Fred Holabird
2017-11-09 17:30 - 20:30
Fred Holabird continues our lecture series tonight with a talk about the SS Central America Treasure.
The most famous wreck of the nineteenth century was the SS Central America, loaded with $3 million in gold from the California gold rush in 1857.
Located in the 1990’s by high-tech engineers at a depth of 8,000 feet, a major portion was recovered. A decade of law suits followed, culminating in the sale of the gold. Fifteen years later, a second round was recovered, little known to the public.
Fred Holabird has been one of the key components to the treasure story since late 1999. He worked for the Federal Court, the Insurance companies, and the investors to unravel mysteries of the wreck, cargo and people on board.
Fred Holabird is a mining geologist (64). He spent the first half of his career in exploration and production of precious metals here in Nevada, managing two open pit gold companies. He created Holabird’s Western Americana, specializing in Mining in America, in 1983 as a second business. Today it is the largest auction company of Western Americana in the United States. Holabird remains very active in the mining business, consulting on production, management and environmental issues regularly.
November 9th at 7:00 PM. It will be an interesting evening! Discover the little known facts. See sign up form below:
Please note that we have only 50 total seats for people to see the lecture. Due to the crazy interest in the lecture series, and the fact that we are selling out each week, we will have to closely monitor the sign ups for this lecture series.
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Lecture tonight! Pam Abercrombie – The History of Nevada Indian Tribes: The Numu, Newe, Nuwu, and Wa She Shu
2017-11-02 17:30 - 20:30
Pamela Abercrombie continues our lecture series tonight with a talk about the History of Nevada Indian Tribes: The Numu, Newe, Nuwu, and Wa She Shu.
Pam will be giving an overview of the American Indians across the nation and the indigenous tribes of Nevada. Focus will be on the Northern Paiute, including the lands of the Comstock and surrounding areas as far as the California/Nevada border to the west.
Pam Abercrombie, before coming to the Comstock, worked on a rural Nevada Indian Tribe reservation for about eight years. Her love for history led her down a path of research on the indigenous people of Nevada. She spent three years studying our local tribes, in addition to federal/tribal relations and tribal nations across the United States, learning from non cross-cultural resources; therefore gaining knowledge from the American Indian’s perspective on North America and the United States.

Discover the history, interesting facts and information about the way of life of the Nevada Indians before the arrival of the white European settlers and colonists.
Pamela Abercrombie is the Executive Director of the Comstock Historical Foundation. She has developed a career in the nonprofit field the past 14 years, serving youth and families. She began as a program coordinator for a youth-serving organization in Dayton, transitioned to the Education Director for the Yerington Paiute Tribe where she became a self-taught administrator, and then after earning a Master’s in Public Administration fell in love with Virginia City and tourism. With an undergrad in history from the University of Nevada, Reno and a passion for history, becoming the director for the Foundation is a perfect fit.
November 2nd at 7:00 PM. It will be an exciting evening! See sign up form below:
Please note that we have only 50 total seats for people to see the lecture. Due to the crazy interest in the lecture series, and the fact that we are selling out each week, we will have to closely monitor the sign ups for this lecture series.
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Lecture tonight! “Weird Silver Terrace Cemetery” by Nevada authors Sandie La Nae and Arline La Ferry
2017-10-26 17:30 - 20:30
Nevada Author, Sandie La Nae, has written several books covering the properties of minerals, paranormal communications and of historic data and information. Using her abilities in the field of paranormal, Sandie, an accomplished Ghost Hunter, has been an independent member with the Thin Veil Investigators paranormal investigative team based in Carson City, Nevada where she resides.
Arline La Ferry, is a Special Works Historian at the Nevada Historical Society, in Reno, with focus on regional cemeteries.
Together, La Nae and La Ferry have collaborated on their popular “Weird” volumes – books about interesting and enlightening material surrounding particular towns.
Their lecture will be on the second book in a trilogy of the “Weird” Virginia City series, “Weird Silver Terrace Cemetery.” Interesting characters and events encircle this famous Wild West cemetery, which, the land was first destined to be a housing development.
This is a great lecture to get you “in the mood” for Halloween!
October 26th at 7:00 PM. It will be an exciting evening! See sign up form below:
Please note that we have only 50 total seats for people to see the lecture. Due to the crazy interest in the lecture series, and the fact that we are selling out each week, we will have to closely monitor the sign ups for this lecture series.
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Lectures Continue Tonight: Will Furman - Bodie and Virginia City: Capturing the Historic Old West in a New Way
2017-10-12 17:30 - 20:30
Will Furman continues the lecture series this Thursday night (October 12th) at the Gold Hill Hotel.
Will is a photographer with a distinct eye for the serenity and magic of nature – and for echoes of the Old West. He has pioneered what he describes as Inside-Out, a single image technique that utilizes both the reflectivity and translucency of windows to create an image with multiple planes. The result conjures a Bodie that was, haunting and evocative. “When we visit historic places,” Will asks as he photographs, “What did it feel like to live back then? That feeling is what he tries to capture in each photograph. It allows the viewer to feel, for a moment, that they had returned to yesteryear.”
After his presentation on Bodie, Furman will talk about his new Inside-Out technique and show examples of it applied in Virginia City and other historic towns in the west.
There is no double exposure. No superimposition of two images, just one press of the camera button. The results draw the viewer into the image in a new way. People who like ghost towns, like this presentation. It’s different. The towns come alive because each person experiences each image differently.
Last month Will Furman gave this presentation at the California State Library in Sacramento. They have asked him to mount a photographic exhibition of Inside-Out images at the library.
If you want to see a new way to capture people’s interest in historic towns, like Virginia City, or any other historic town, come to the Gold Hill Hotel on Thursday evening, October 12th at 7:00 PM. It will be an exciting evening! See sign up form below:
Please note that we have only 50 total seats for people to see the lecture. Due to the crazy interest in the lecture series, and the fact that we are selling out each week, we will have to closely monitor the sign ups for this lecture series.
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