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WINTER 2019-2020
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History Talks! Lacey's Role in Radio History
Wednesday, January 29, 5:30 p.m., Lacey City Hall Council Chambers
Longtime broadcaster and community activist Dick Pust talks about how one of the first radio stations in the nation got its start in Lacey. Illustrated with many historic images, he will also share how radio helped shape the lives of local residents. Pust, who spent more than 50 years in local broadcasting, will share his personal recollections including that time Hollywood superstar Bob Hope visited Lacey in the 1970s.
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History Talks! The African American Legacy in Washington State
Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 5:30 p.m. Lacey City Hall, Council Chambers
To celebrate African American History Month, Lacey Museum is privileged to host retired University of Washington professor Dr. Quintard Taylor, with a presentation about the broader aspects of our region’s African American history. In 2004, Taylor created an online website resource center for African American history called BlackPast.org, which contains an amazing array of information from encyclopedia-type entries and audio and video recordings to first-hand accounts of important events. He has also written numerous books and articles on African American history. |
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SPRING 2020
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History Talks!
Washington Suffragists--Ahead of Their Time
Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 5:30 p.m. Lacey City Hall, Council Chambers
Although 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the federal 19th amendment giving women the right to vote, Washington women won the vote a decade earlier in 1910. Well-known local historian Shanna Stevenson will present the history of suffrage in Washington State. Her presentation will include the fascinating tale of local women who played a major role in the movement as well as the pioneering women who were political leaders of Thurston County.
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History Talks! Destination: Lacey
Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 5:30 p.m. Lacey City Hall, Council Chambers
Museum Curator, Erin Quinn Valcho, will take the audience on a photographic journey through Lacey's resort era, when clubs were exclusive, roads were treacherous, and summers at Lacey lakes were an adventurous excursion. Although the heyday of Lacey's resort era was during the roaring 20s, the history spans six decades from the 1910s through the 1960s. Find out what brought people, how the resorts came to be, and what happened to them. At the end, you'll be invited to share your stories of Lacey's lakes.
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History Talks! In Search of the Treaty Tree
Wednesday, May 13, 2020, 5:30 p.m. Lacey City Hall, Council Chambers
In 1854, the Medicine Creek Treaty between regional Native American tribes and Washington’s territorial government, led by Isaac Ingalls Stevens, kicked off a years-long conflict that forever changed the story of the Pacific Northwest. Sixty-eight years later, the Sacagawea Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution dedicated a marker commemorating the momentous treaty, at the foot of a single remaining Douglas Fir that became forever known as “Treaty Tree.” Today, that tree is gone, but the clues left behind may be able to point us to the exact spot where it once stood amongst a grove of fir trees that bore witness to a pivotal moment in the history of Washington state. Join historian Erich Ebel for a look at what led to the Indian Wars, what has been learned since and why history must never be forgotten.
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