The Morongo Basin Historical Society’s second Wednesday lecture series will be held today. The lecture “Early Landers Pioneers” will be told by Morgan Reche. Assignment reporter Keith Bailey has the details on the lecture…
Morgan Reche is the grandson of one the areas founding families and is giving a lecture. Reche grew up in Lander’s on an adobe homestead where Gublers’ Orchids is located today. Reche’s father Walter cowboyed at Heart Bar Ranch, and Old Woman Springs Ranch. Charlie Reche, Morgan Reche’s grandfather, dug the Reche Well in Landers in 1887. Reche also worked as an alfalfa farmer, gold miner and as a businessman. Charlie Reche was best known as the deputy sheriff who was a wounded member of the 1909 posse chasing Willie Boy. Admission is $5 and the lecture takes place today Wednesday, September 11, at 5:30 p.m.
Note this lecture is being held in a new location, in the Yucca Valley Senior Center, 57088 Twentynine Palms Highway in Yucca Valley. Parking is at the west end of the parking lot, doors open at 5:15 p.m. and lecture begins at 5:30 p.m.
