LAKE COUNTY — Two Bay Area media companies are featuring in this week”s programming stories of Lake County”s past and present.
Nonprofit public broadcasting channel KQED aired an hour-long documentary Sunday on Camp Beaverbrook, a co-educational overnight summer camp that was a presence on Cobb Mountain from 1961 to 1985.
Filmmaker and former “Beaverbod” Matthew C. Callahan used his experience to tell the story of the campground and its history through the use of archival footage.
Callahan submitted the 2010 film to the 10th annual San Francisco Documentary Festival in October.
KQED airs the documentary again tonight at 11 p.m., Thursday at 5 a.m. and on its cable channels KQED Life Thursday at 10 p.m. and Friday at 4 a.m., and KQED World Saturday at 4 p.m.
A Facebook page about the documentary can be found at www.facebook.com/pages/Camp-Beaverbrook-Movie-Homepage-and-Trailer/209665937015. Callahan also has a website where the documentary can be purchased at www.matthewcallahanmedia.wordpress.com.
CBS San Francisco entertainment program “Eye on the Bay” on Monday aired an episode of its “Road to Nowhere” segment that highlighted Cobb Mountain and a few other Lake County tourist stops.
The half-hour program began in Calistoga before traveling on Highway 29 over Mount St. Helena into Middletown, up Cobb Mountain on Highway 175, and along Highway 20 into Scotts Valley, Upper Lake and Nice.
Lake County businesses Jellystone RV Park and Camp Resort, Loch Lomond Roadhouse, The Tallman Hotel and Blue Wing Saloon, Ceago Vinegarden and Yerba Santa Goat Farm were all featured on the program.
The program can be viewed in three segments on the CBS San Francisco webpage at http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/07/31/eye-on-the-bay-road-to-nowhere-cobb-mountain/.
Kevin N. Hume can be reached at kevin.n.hume@gmail.com or call directly 263-5636 ext. 14. Follow on Twitter: @KevinNHume.
