How Statues and Memorials Interpret our Shared History

Memorials and statues represent our greatest heroes but also memorialize great social failures.  Join a panel of local historians for a conversation about the role of statues in both constructing our past and engaging our present.  Together we will grapple with the challenge of memorializing painful pasts and look at the ways that people have responded
to statues differently over time.

Join panelists Robert Spalding, author of Seattle’s Monuments, Memorials, and Markers, to be published by WSU Press; Rick Solomon, past president of the Puget Sound Civil War Roundtable; Feliks Banel, writer and producer for KIRO radio where he hosts a weekly news feature on local history; Stephanie Toothman, retired Associate Director for Cultural Resources for the National Park Service; Judy Bentley, who has walked many Washington cities and seen many statues, moderator.

7 p.m. social hour, program starting at 7:15 p.m. Free parking available in lot at 4th Av. W and W.Dravus St.