7/7/07
Just south of Arcata is the Samoa Peninsula, home to the
Samoa Cookhouse, a museum and dining room that served
the loggers from the late 1800's until the 1950's. The loggers
worked 6 days a week like the miners, 12 hours a day and they
make $1 a day minus 40 cents for food, that's $3 a week, but
they ate really well. 3 meals a day with meat in each meal,
and it was all you could eat! The cook was a very important
guy when it came to maintaining morale at the logging camp
and apparently if they were well fed, they were happy!
The food was great, and we enjoyed looking at all the antiques
in the museum from the 1800's, explaining to the kids what they
were.
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