Annual Meeting
Suzzallo Library fifth floor conference room Suzzallo Library, Seattle, United StatesThis year we are excited to honor University of Washington historian Dr. Quintard Taylor with the Guild's PNW History Award. We annually give this award for a lifetime of achievements and contributions to history, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. Dr. Taylor is well-known for his groundbreaking website www.blackpast.org and was recently profiled in the Seattle Times.
Paula Becker: Looking for Betty MacDonald, The Egg the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I.
Suzzallo Library fifth floor conference room Suzzallo Library, Seattle, United StatesPaula Becker will talk from her new book, Looking for Betty MacDonald, The Egg the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I. Becker drew on MacDonald’s archives to write this biography of the popular author of a children’s books series and a memoir of her life on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula.
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