National Archives at Seattle

Conference: Pacific Northwest Historians Guild

Saturday March 4, 2006
Museum of History and Industry
Seattle, Washington

Pacific Northwest: The Growing Up Years

Co-sponsors:
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Pacific Alaska Region,
Museum of History and Industry,
and the Washington State Historical Society

For more information, see the Conference flyer

Conference Program

9:00 Conference Welcome
Leonard Garfield, Executive Director, Museum of History and Industry
Maria Pascualy, Co-President PNWHG (Curator of Exhibits, WSHS)
Candace Lein-Hayes, Co-President PHWHG (NARA)

9:15 Session I: Chair: Doris Pieroth, Pacific Northwest Historians Guild

Cory Graff, Author and Researcher, The Museum of Flight: "Out of the Blue: Seattle's Top Secret Bomber Crash"

Roger Van Oosten, Mural Historian: "Seattle's Hidden Mural History"

Break 10:30 to 10:45

11:00 Session II: Chair: Mike Wilcox, Edmonds-South Snohomish County Historical Society

Junius Rochester, Historian and Author: "Sam Hill: Legend of the Columbia Gorge"

Lorraine McConaghy, Historian, Museum of History and Industry: "Postwar Haute Couture: A Historian's Look at Theatre de la Mode"

Tour of "Theatre de la Mode," the current MOHAI exhibit from the Maryhill Museum collection

12:00 Lunch

Featured Speaker: Timothy Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning Northwest Author and Journalist

1:30 Session III: Chair: Charles LeWarne, Pacific Northwest Historians Guild

Fred Brown, Ph.D. candidate in history, University of Washington: "Cows in the Commons: Urban Livestock and Public Space in Seattle, 1890-1910,"

Caroline Gallacci, Ph.D., Public Historian: "Tacoma, the City We Build: City Planning in Tacoma"

Break 2:45 to 3:00

3:00 Session IV: Chair: Mary Wright, Historian, Departments of History and American Indian Studies, University of Washington

Katie Stalley, Independent Scholar: "Remembrance and Reconciliation: Seattle Pacific College and the Internment, 1942"

Ron Magden, History Instructor, Tacoma Community College: "Not Forgotten: Caucasians Who Helped Save Japanese-American Farms in Pierce County During the World War II Internment"

4:15 Social Hour
Please join us after the conference at the museum for wine, soft drinks, and appetizers for networking and conversation.

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