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Annual Guild conference - West session - Seattle

Conference on territorial life, 1853 to 1889:
Marking the sesquicentennial of the founding of Washington Territory

Where and when

  • Friday, February 28, 2003:
    Wing Luke Asian Museum, evening tours beginning at 5:25 and 5:40, 407 Seventh Ave S, Seattle, 98104 (206) 623-5124

    Phnom Penh Restaurant, dinner and speaker, 6:15 pm, around the corner at 660 S King St

  • Saturday, March 1, 2003:
    Museum of History and Industry, conference sessions and luncheon, 8 am to 4:30 pm, 2700-24th Ave E, Seattle, 98112, (206) 324-1685

Friday evening pre-conference activities

5:30 pm
Tour of Wing Luke Asian Museum exhibit: The first 100 years: Reflections of Seattle's Chinese Americans
  Ron Chew, Wing Luke Executive Director: "Seattle south of Yesler: The territorial years"

Saturday conference program

8:00 am Registration
8:35 am Welcome, introduction and opening speaker
Robert Ficken: "Reflections on telling the territorial story"
9:15 am
Territorial capitalism
Moderator: Karyl Winn
Julia Eulenberg: "The young adventurers: Jewish entrepreneurs look at Washington Territory"
Jan Eakins: "We are in fair progress: Sawmills in the early territorial period"
Religious life
Moderator: Christine Taylor
Roberta Brown: "Why bother with a bishop I? Religion and complex cultural realities in the Oregon Territory, 1846-53"
Patricia Killen: "Why bother with a bishop II? Religion, identity and social conflict during Washington's territorial period, 1853-89"
Diane Wells: "Called to mission: The Episcopal Church in Western Washington, 1853-1859"
Boosting the territory
Moderator: Glenn Mason
Tom Edwards: "Cumtux touts Wallula, Washington Territory, 1866-1867"
Kathy Mendelson: "Cultivating Eden? Giant vegetables, bumper drops and the real story of agriculture in territorial Washington"
10:45 am Territorial timelines, territorial records
(Plenary session)
Moderator: Sam Reed, Washington Secretary of State
David Nicandri: "Territorial timelines"
Laila Miletic-Vejzovic: "Overview of Washington State University collections related to Washington Territory"
Carla Rickerson: "Washington Territory historical resources at the University of Washington Libraries"
Jerry Handfield: "Democracy, the secretary and the scholar: 150 years of sex, crime and violence at the valuable State Archives"
Candace Lein-Hayes: "Searching for Washington territorial records in the National Archives"
12:15 pm Lunch
Keynote speaker: Timothy Egan, New York Times reporter "There is no death, only a change in worlds: A skeptic's view of how we Northwesterners tell our own story"
1:30 pm Military influences
Moderator: Kent Richards
Bill Woodward: "The territorial militia and the treaty wars of the 1850s"
Karen Meador: "An unlikely champion: Jefferson Davis and the Pacific Northwest"
Territorial metaphors
Moderator: Walt Crowley
Paul Dorpat: "Playing the pioneer pedal: Ivar Haglund’s use of territorial history"
Roger Van Ooster: "Seattle public art: Exploring territorial themes"
Lorraine McConaghy: "Engine of conquest: The steam engine in western Washington Territory"
Cultural encounters
Moderator: Coll Thrush
Dale Soden: "The Women's Christian Temperance Union in Washington Territory: The battle between Victorian and immigrant working class cultures"
Drew Crooks: "Voyage of the brig Orbit/Recovery: Maritime adventures and misadventures in the mid-nineteenth century"
Robert Foxcurran: "Meti immigration into Washington Territory"
3:15 pm Facing the domestic
Moderator: Jacqueline Williams
Kay Reinartz: "A look through the window: Women and their lives in territorial days"
Denise Ottoson: "Looking for Mary: The life of Mary Kays Boren"
John H. Ferry: "They always have pudding or pies: Timber beats, sawdust savages, and the cookhouse"
Moving the territory
Moderator: Daniel E. Turbeville III
Judith Bentley: "The Cascade passes: Crossing to statehood"
Bob Chenoweth: "Canoes of the territorial period"
Junius Rochester: "Transportation routes in Washington Territory"
African Americans in territorial days
Moderator: Darrell Millner
Ed Diaz: "George Bush, George Washington, et al., and Washington history"
Rev. Thomas Murphy: "The Pig War as race war: Northwest blacks and their reaction to the boundary dispute in the San Juans, 1859-1860"



photo courtesy of Museum of History and Industry, Seattle #16100

Photo courtesy of Museum of History and Industry, Seattle #16100

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