Pacific Northwest Historians Guild

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PNW Historians Guild
PO Box 85457
Seattle, WA 98145.

 

More Voices, New Stories:

KING COUNTY’S FIRST 150 YEARS:, 1852 TO 2002
Seattle, March 1st & March 2nd, 2002

Where and when

  • Friday, March 1, 2002:
    Log House Museum, evening tour begins at 5:30, Alki Point, Seattle WA “The Spirit Returns”: A Duwamish and Pioneer Story

    The Homestead Restaurant, dinner at 7:00 pm, also in West Seattle

  • Saturday, March 2, 2002:
    Museum of History and Industry, conference sessions and luncheon, 9 am to 4:30 pm, 2700-24th Ave E, Seattle, 98112, (206) 324-1685

Saturday Conference Program

8:30 am Registration
9:00 am Opening Remarks,
Richard Berner, Honorary Conference Chairman, author of Seattle in the 20th Century, 3 vols
9:15 am Challenging the Familiar:
Chair, David Buerge
  Ed Diaz,  A Different Perspective on Black Strike-breakers in King Co.’s Coal Mining Industry
  Kay ReinartzDuwamish Valley Homesteaders, 1851-1870
10:30 am Developing Urbanity:
Chair, Karyl Winn
  Robert S. Fisher,  Mirror of Taste: The Restaurant as a Reflection of Seattle’s History
  Eric L. Flom,  Seattle’s Stage History through 1930
11:45 am Lunch
Keynote speaker: Mary Lynn Lyke, columnist, Seattle Post-Intelligencer on “A ‘Novel’ Approach to History: opportunities of history and fiction.”
1:15 pm Women’s History:
Chair, Elizabeth Salas
  Michael Reese,  ’A Mothers’ Natural Right’: Public Welfare for Single Mothers in King County, 1913-1930
  Jackie Williams,  ”If I Am Only For Myself, What Am I?” Jewish Women’s Philanthropy
  DEPICTING HISTORY: Three Film Makers Discuss Their Work:
Chair, B.J. Bullert
  Stephen Sadis,  Seattle Rainiers
  B. J. Bullert,  excerpts from forthcoming Fishermen’s Terminal
  Gilda Sheppard,  excerpts from historical films produced by emerging film makers
2:30 pm Asian-American History:
Chair, Doug Chin
  Ron Magden,  History of Buddhists in King Co., 1882-2001
  Nhien T. Nguyen,  History of Vietnamese Americans in King County
  PICTURING THE NORTHWEST: Views of the Pacific Northwest in Movies:
Chair, Lyall Bush
  Lyall Bush,  Drip and Drab: Weather in McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Five Easy Pieces
  Trevor Elkington,  Dancer in the Dark and Other ‘Outsider’ Visions
  Lisanne Dutton,  Uses of the Present

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  Photo courtesy of Washington State Historical Society #1056

Photo courtesy of Washington State Historical Society #1056

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