| 8:00 am |
Registration |
| 8:30 am |
Welcoming Remarks and Introductions |
9:00 am
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History in Image
Moderator, Chuck LeWarne |
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William W Winship: excerpts from video "PIONEERS IN AVIATION: The Shape
of Boeing Since 1945” and discussion with its director |
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Changing Communities and Their Traditions
Moderator, Jackie Williams |
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Lorraine McConaghy: "Disturbia: Constructing Community from Conflict,
1950-1962"
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Kay Reinartz:: "Back-to-the-Landers: Re-Building Communities in Ferry and Stevens Counties"
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Sherry Grindeland: "Art: A Fair Legacy - A History of the Pacific
Northwest Arts & Crafts Fair and the Bellevue Art Museum" |
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Nuclear History
Moderator, Turkiya Lowe |
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Jim Thomas: "Unnecessary Exposures and Hanford's Stuck Plutonium
Throttle"
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Michele S. Gerber: "History of Hanford Site Defense Operations" |
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Brian Casserly: "Missiles or Picnics in Pugetopolis?: Conflicting
Visions of Seattle’s Fort Lawton in the 1960s." |
| 10:30 am |
The Perils of Doing Contemporary History
(Plenary Session)
Moderator, Garry Schalliol
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Ron Chew, Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle WA
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Stephanie Coontz, Evergreen State College, Olympia WA
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Walt Crowley, HistoryLink, Inc.
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Lorraine McConaghy, Museum of History and Industry, Seattle WA
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| Noon |
Lunch |
| 12:30 pm |
Keynote speaker: Walt Crowley, author of Rites of Passage : a
Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle and director of HistoryLink.org, the
online encyclopedia "Doing History in Real Time: The Ups and Downs of Web-based
Historical Research and Publishing"
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| 1:30 pm |
Emerging Sexual Minorities
Moderator, Richard Engeman |
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Marsha Botzer and Pat Freeman: "Transgenders/Transsexuals: Moving Toward
the Light"
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Gary L. Atkins: "Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging" |
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Don Paulson: "Early Gay Pioneer Square and Desire at the Garden of
Allah" |
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Social Issues/Social Progress
Moderator, Doris Pieroth |
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Esther Altshul Helfgott: "Dr. Edith Buxbaum and the Application of
Psychoanalytic Pedagogy in Post-World War II Seattle" |
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Patricia Hackett Nicola: "Contributions of Women Health Officers in the
PNW since World War II" |
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Michael Brown: "Victorio Velasco: Filipino journalist and political
activist, 1924 – 1968" |
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Personal Lives In the Midst of Change
Moderator, Kay Reinartz
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Dan Hammill: "'Nortwest Passage' - The story of the Underground Railroad in the Pacific Northwest during the Vietnam War" |
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Jon Middaugh: "Limiting Mobility: Migrant Farm Workers in the Yakima
Valley, 1965-75." |
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Sandy Polishuk: "How I Lost My Job in the Vanport Flood: an Oral History
of Julia Ruuttila" |
| 3:00 pm |
Politics – oppositional & countercultural
Moderator, Mary C. Wright |
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Georgianna Kautz: "Wars Along the River: Nisqually View of Treaty
Rights"
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Chuck LeWarne: "The Emergence of a Hippie-Era Guru: Paul Erdman becomes Love Israel" |
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Robey Clark: "Many False Trails: A Personal Reflection on 30 Years of
the Indian Education Act" |
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In Pursuit of the Good Life
Moderator, Valoise Armstrong, NARA Archivist |
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Mikala Woodward: "Rainier Valley Food Stories: A Taste of South
Seattle's Ethnic History"
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Sandi Kurtz: "Dance in Seattle: Homegrown or Imported" |
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Ron Irvine: “The Good Life and Wine, 1880-1910” |
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Alternative media
Moderator, Junius Rochester
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Dan Merkle: "The Role of the Independent Media Center during the 1999
WTO protests"
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Paul Dorpat: "A Thumbnail History of the ‘Helix’ – Seattle’s First
Underground Newspaper" |
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