Walking the Denny Regrade with David B. Williams
Within 50-years of the Denny party's arrival in Seattle, the city undertook several massive projects which permanently changed the topography of the city. Between 1898 and 1930, Seattle completed perhaps the most audacious engineering change by eliminating Denny Hill at the north end of downtown. By the end of the project, Seattleites had washed and
Coal Creek’s Mining History
Coal Creek Trail Head, Newcastle, WA 7501 Newcastle Golf Club Rd, Newcastle, WA, United StatesJudy Bentley led a hike along the Coal Creek Trail to the center of 19th century mining in old Newcastle. Sixteen Guild members and guests hiked railroad grades and trails along the route of the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad and saw the terrain of mining--black holes in the earth, coal timbers in the creek,
What’s Happening in Pacific Northwest History?
Suzzallo Library fifth floor conference room Suzzallo Library, Seattle, United States"What's happening in Pacific Northwest history?" Thursday, September 28, 7 p.m., Upstairs in the Ames Library (building 14 on map), Seattle Pacific University, Parking is free (lot 45 on map). (Map of campus) As is traditional, our September meeting will be a sharing among Guild members of our current research and interests. To jump start
Chinese Temples in the Pacific Northwest
Suzzallo Library fifth floor conference room Suzzallo Library, Seattle, United StatesAt the Guild's October program meeting, Dr. Chuimei Ho and Dr. Bennet Bronson will discuss "What happened to Chinese temples in the Northwest? In the 1910s, how did a formerly vital Daoist-Buddhist faith, central to the lives of tens of thousands of immigrants, vanish almost without a trace? Was Christianity the cause?" Dr. Chuimei Ho
How Statues and Memorials Interpret our Shared History
Suzzallo Library fifth floor conference room Suzzallo Library, Seattle, United StatesMemorials and statues represent our greatest heroes but also memorialize great social failures. Join a panel of local historians for a conversation about the role of statues in both constructing our past and engaging our present. Together we will grapple with the challenge of memorializing painful pasts and look at the ways that people have