Historical talk: Growing Up in Lamb Canyon in the 1930s

In the 1850s, Mary Lamb Flake’s family settled in what became known as Lamb Canyon, which featured a rough, hilly “road” from Beaumont to San Jacinto. At the next meeting of the San Gorgonio Pass Historical Society on Thursday, Feb. 14, Flake will share the her family’s colorful lore – including bootlegging, stagecoaches and lions – which shaped her childhood in the 1930s, when her father and extended family lived and worked on the ranches in the hills south of Beaumont.

The historical society meeting will start at 7 p.m. at the Beaumont Woman’s Club, 306 E. 6th St., Beaumont. The society’s museum will be open before and after the meeting, and all non-members and friends are welcome at society meetings and events.

Flake, who pilots airplanes, is pictured in 1948 during the time she was flying in San Jacinto and Hemet, and in 2018 in the nose of a Marine Corps PBJ World War II bomber.

Information about the society’s ongoing activities may be found on the San Gorgonio Pass Historical Society Facebook page.