Events Search and Views Navigation
September 2018
Learn about Seattle’s markers, memorials, and monuments with Robert Spalding
Beginning with a stolen Tlingit totem pole and stretching to a Ken Griffey Jr. sculpture, Seattle offers an impressive abundance of public monuments, statues, busts, and plaques. Explore the history of these works and the stories behind them,including funding, artists, sites, public opinion, and more, with Monumental Seattle author Robert Spalding.
Find out more »October 2018
Candace Wellman at Deming Library
Come meet Candace Wellman, the award-winning author of "Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast through Cross-Cultural Marriages," and learn about the peace-weaving alliances that played a crucial role in Pacific Northwest settlement. The four intermarried women she profiles left a lasting legacy in their Puget Sound communities
Find out more »Candace Wellman at Everson Library
Come meet Candace Wellman, the award-winning author of "Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast through Cross-Cultural Marriages," and learn about the peace-weaving alliances that played a crucial role in Pacific Northwest settlement. The four intermarried women she profiles left a lasting legacy in their Puget Sound communities.
Find out more »November 2018
Candace Wellman at Ferndale Library
Come meet Candace Wellman, the award-winning author of "Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast through Cross-Cultural Marriages," and learn about the peace-weaving alliances that played a crucial role in Pacific Northwest settlement. The four intermarried women she profiles left a lasting legacy in their Puget Sound communities.
Find out more »Hardship to Homeland author Richard Scheuerman at the Colfax Public Library
Richard Scheuerman was raised on a small farm between the rural Palouse Country communities of Endicott and St. John, Washington, and is a career historian and professional educator. His honors include the Washington State Historical Society's Robert Gray Medal for outstanding contributions to history education and the Washington Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He also has a very personal connection to the region's Volga Germans. His book recounts their unique story in a saga that stretches from Germany to…
Find out more »Lauren Danner at Timberland Regional Library
Come meet Lauren Danner, author of Crown Jewel Wilderness: Creating North Cascades National Park, and discover the story behind Washington’s spectacularly majestic third national park. She chronicles how concern over natural resource agency policies—one favoring tourism development and the other promoting logging in national forests—plus conservationists’ activism and skillful political compromise, eventually led to its creation 50 years ago in 1968. Lauren Danner
Find out more »Hardship to Homeland author Richard Scheuerman at WSU Terrell Library Atrium
Richard Scheuerman was raised on a small farm between the rural Palouse Country communities of Endicott and St. John, Washington, and is a career historian and professional educator. His honors include the Washington State Historical Society's Robert Gray Medal for outstanding contributions to history education and the Washington Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He also has a very personal connection to the region's Volga Germans. His book recounts their unique story in a saga that stretches from Germany to…
Find out more »Learn about Seattle’s markers, memorials, and monuments with Robert Spalding
Beginning with a stolen Tlingit totem pole and stretching to a Ken Griffey Jr. sculpture, Seattle offers an impressive abundance of public monuments, statues, busts, and plaques. Explore the history of these works and the stories behind them,including funding, artists, sites, public opinion, and more, with Monumental Seattle author Robert Spalding.
Find out more »December 2018
Authors to speak about pre-WWII Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland
Authors of the new book, Nowhere to Remember will give a public presentation at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, in the East Auditorium at Washington State University Tri-Cities. Drawn from Hanford History Project personal narratives, Nowhere to Remember highlights life in Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland—three small eastern Washington agricultural communities where Euro-American settlers transformed acres of sagebrush into fruit orchards and neighbors helped neighbors. But in 1943, families received evacuation orders, and Manhattan Project restrictions meant they could not return.…
Find out more »WSU Press 2018 Holiday Book Fair
The Washington State University Press will host its 27th annual holiday book fair on Wednesday, December 5, from 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m., in the Terrell Library Atrium on the Pullman campus. The fair highlights books published throughout the year and is open to everyone. Festivities include steep discounts of 20-50% on all titles, drawings for free books, and complimentary refreshments. Author Darin Watkins will be signing copies of Chance for Glory, which chronicles the untold story of the magical 1915 season, when…
Find out more »