On May 26 and 7:30pm, Valhalla Tahoe at the Tallac Historic Site offers a Chautauqua presentation of Snowshoe Thompson and his wife Agnes in-Mailman of the Sierra. Thompson carried the mail across the Sierra Nevada snows for 20 winters. He would travel the 180-mile round trip from Placerville to Genoa in just five days on his hand-crafted, seven-foot snow skates (skis) with nothing more than a jacket, dried meat, matches and his 80-pound bag of mail. Thompson saved the lives of many forlorn winter travelers, made one of the first recorded surveys of Lake Tahoe, is often credited with being the father of skiing in California, and is one of the most decent and righteous people to have called the Sierra Nevada home. The program is free and open to the public and presented inside the Valhalla Boathouse Theatre 4-miles west of the “Y” in South Lake Tahoe on Hwy 89.