Bodie 601 Run and Fun Run
Postponed for 2020- Dates to come soon 5 kilometer run + kids fun run- 8:00am They say the Bodie 601, a citizen vigilante group, delivered swift and absolute justice. Come join us for the first annual Bodie foot race and be a part of history – experience for yourself how hard it is to outrun... Read more
Bodie’s Methodist Church needs your help!
California State Parks staff have identified two emergency stabilization projects that they are in dire need of our help funding. State Parks has no money to save these buildings, so they are leaning on us, the Bodie Foundation, to raise the necessary funds to keep the church and the Fouke Residence standing. We are currently raising funds... Read more
PHASE 1 Funding for Stabilizing the Methodist Church
Phase 1 of Stabilizing the Methodist Church and the Fouke Residence is paying for a structural engineer to create plans, so we can put a project out to bid. We are looking for $50,000 for this initial phase. The Methodist Church has started to lean significantly to the right, and backward as well. Perhaps one... Read more
Bodie Cemetery Gets New Life
By Donna Jones (article from Bodie Times, Spring 2011) At long last, the project to conserve grave markers in the Bodie cemeteries got underway in early September, 2010. Jablonski Building Conservation, an experienced and highly trained team of conservators, arrived to assess the various stone grave markers. By late October, a total of 28 stone... Read more
Sniffing Out Clues to Bodie’s Lost Graves
by Adela Morris & Lynne Engelbert (article from Bodie Times, Spring 2012) Little did anyone know when John Grebenkemper and his dog Tali visited Bodie in September 2007 that the seed of a strange partnership was about to be planted. John introduced himself to Terri Geissinger and explained to her that Tali was being trained... Read more
Keeping Decay Under Arrest for 50 Years
Fifty years ago, the State of California concluded negotiations with the J. S. Cain family and other landholders to acquire properties that make up the ghost town of Bodie. The state conducted an extensive “inventory” of the condition of each structure and developed a strategic plan for continued management of the town. The plan they... Read more