Calendar of Events (Old Page)

One of the key benefits of membership in the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild is our year-long calendar of events for our members, which includes lectures, tours, book talks, conferences and a host of other activities and events promoting the history of the Pacific Northwest.  You can see a list of our past events here or learn about how to become a member or renew your membership here.

You can also suggest an event of interest to our members.

 

Upcoming PNWHG Events

The Pacific Northwest Historians Guild has programs planned on the fourth Thursday of the month for the 2016-2017 year. We will meet at Seattle Pacific University in the seminar room of Ames Library (#14 on the map). Free parking is available in Lot #45, adjacent to the library. Come early (7 p.m.) for socializing.

May 25, 7:30 p.m.
Paula 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.

July 22, 9 a.m.IMG_1548
Judy Bentley will lead a hike along the Coal Creek Trail to the center of 19th century mining in old Newcastle.  Hike railroad grades and trails along the route of the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad and see the terrain of mining–black holes in the earth, coal and timbers in the creek, locomotive turntable remains, and more.  The hike will be about 4 miles with shuttles between the beginning and end of the trail, with a few modest ups and downs but mostly level.  RSVP to bentley.judy@gmail.com, preference to Guild members, limit of 15.

 

 Recent PNWHG Events

Full listing of past events can be found on the Past Events page.

2017

  • October –  Chuimei Ho and Ben Bronson of the Chinese in Northwest America Research Project, ““What happened to Chinese temples in the Northwest?”
  • September – Member open roundtable, sharing information on current projects in process.
  • March – David B. Williams moderating panel on  social and environmental history of the Lake Washington
    Ship Canal and Hiram M. Chittenden Locks
  • February – Junius Rochester, “Hawaiians and Peltry in the Pacific Northwest: the Kanaka Connection”
  • January – Graduate students in regional history, work in progress.

2016

  • December – William Dietrich on his updated classic, Northwest Passage, The Great Columbia River.
  • October – Fred Brown, author of The City is More than Human, An Animal History of Seattle
  • September – Report on Research
  • July – Annual History Hike: Yakima Pass with Judy Bentley.
  • May – Talk: “Those Mysterious Seacoast Forts: Homeland Defense the Old-Fashioned Way” Dr. William Woodward. Seattle Pacific University
  • April – Annual Membership Event and Business Meeting.  Keynote Speaker : Lorraine McConaghy
  • February – Talk : “Graduate Student Research Forum 2016” Kevin McKenna, Josue Estrada.  University of Washington
  • March – Talk “Rare Images of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacifc Exposition”,  by Dan Kerlee
  • April  – Annual Meeting, Awards and Conference. The guild honored Judy Bentley, and the featured speaker was Lorraine McConaghy

2015

  • July – Walk and history talk on the  Snoqualmie Pass Wagon Road and the Sunset Highway, led by Judy Bentley
  • May   Talk – “Harry Truman, LBJ, Wilbur Mills and Ronald Reagan : The Politics of the Passage of the Medicare Act, on the 50th Anniversary.”  by Dr. John Ryan.
  • April – Talk:  “Neither Harmony Nor Eden: Margaret Peppers and the Exile of the Japanese Americans” by Linda DiBiase
  • March – Annual Meeting, Awards and Conference: This year the guild honored Ron Chew, former Executive Director of the Wing Luke Museum. We also held our conference on March 7, with the theme: “The Urban Northwest in Landscape and Story”
  • February – Talk: “Before Seattle Rocked: A City and Its Music” by Kurt E. Armbruster
  • January -Talk: “The Cultural and Social History of the Jose Rizal Bridge, Seattle” by Andrew Hedden

2014

  • November – Exhibit Talk: “Author, Poet, and Worker: The World of Carlos Bulosan” Conor Casey, Labor Archivist at the Labor Archives of Washington at the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections will talk about the exhibit he co-curated with Andrew Hedden, Program Coordinator for the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington.
  • July – Iron Goat Trail Historic Hike with Judy Bentley, author of Hiking Washington’s History.
  • May – Event: “Wing Luke Museum Exhibit and Tour”
  • April – Talk: “Columbia City Demographics from Late 1800s-Present” Virginia Wright, Rainier Valley Historical Society.
  • March – Annual Meeting: Junius Rochester, award winner. Dan Talmadge, speaker.
  • March – Talk: “Baby Incubators in Seattle”–Historian Paula Becker and neonatal intensive care nurse Amy Caldwell in exploring the early history of baby incubators in Seattle
  • January – New Research on the History and Landscape of the Pacific Northwest: Presentations by Holly Taylor Ross Coen, and Patricia Gauthier

2013

  • October – Public Screening and Talk: “One Generation’s Time: The Legacy of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes”
  • August – Maritime history boat tour at the Center for Wooden Boats
  • June – Member-Only Tour of the Paramount Theatre
  • April – Genealogy Workshop at the Seattle Public Library
  • January – Tour of the new Museum of History and Industry with Lorraine McConaghy
  • January – Annual Meeting with speaker Greg Nickels and award winners University of Washington Press (institutional award) and Randy Schnabel (individual award)

2012

  • May – Conference: Century 21 World’s Fair of 1962
  • March – Paula Becker and Alan J. Stein on the The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, Century 21 Exposition
  • February – Diana James on the history of the Summit-Bellevue trolley and her book Shared Walls
  • February – Bruce McIntyre Watson on the  fur trade west of the Rockies during the first half of the 19th century
  • January – Annual Banquet David Nicandri, Director of the Washington State Historical Society, and annual award to UW History Professor John Findlay

2011

  • November – Sandra Chait book talk on Seeking Salaam: Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis in the Pacific Northwest
  • October – Kurt Armbruster book talk on Before Seattle Rocked, a City and its Music.  
  • March – Conference: Waters of Washington