Conference on the History of Today:

LIFE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST SINCE WORLD WAR II
Seattle, Mar 5^th & Mar. 6^th, 2004

To attend, print out the registration form.

Where and When

• Friday, March 5, 2004
  Experience Music Project, evening tours begin at 5:30 and 5:50 pm, 325 Fifth Avenue North, Seattle WA (206) 367-5483 Liquid Lounge, social hour and appetizer, on site at the EMP
  
  
• Saturday, March 6, 2004
  Museum of History and Industry, conference sessions & luncheon 2700-24th Avenue East, Seattle, WA (206) 324-1685

Saturday Conference Program

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

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