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History Talks!
Captain Cook Rediscovered
Wednesday, September 8, 6:30 p.m.
Online via Zoom
Please click here to register in advance.
Using illustrations that appear in his recent book, Captain Cook Rediscovered: Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes, Dave Nicandri will present a new side to the famous navigator. Rather than the tropical explorer we are accustomed to, Dave will introduce us to an entirely new figure: James Cook as the pioneering polar ice scientist. David Nicandri is the former executive director of the Washington State Historical Society and is an expert in the history of the Pacific Northwest’s exploration phase.
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History Talks!
The Nisqually Tribe: History and Conversation
Tuesday, October 12, 6:30 p.m.
Lacey City Hall, Council Chamber and Online via Zoom
For online access, please click here to register in advance.
Please note: History Talks may move to online only, due to Covid-19. Please check here for updates.
The Nisqually Tribe has been a part of the South Sound community since time immemorial. Annette Bullchild, Nisqually Tribe Archives and Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, will share a bit of history of the Tribe. After, she would like answer questions from the audience about what they would like to know about the tribe. Join us for this unique dialogue!
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History Talks!
Hanford History Project
Wednesday, November 10, 6:30 p.m.
Lacey City Hall, Council Chamber and Online via Zoom
For online access, please click here to register in advance.
Please note: History Talks may move to online only, due to Covid-19. Please check here for updates.
Michael Mays, Professor of English and Director of the Hanford History Project at Washington State University Tri-Cities, will take the audience on a journey through the Hanford History Project, the history of the Hanford site, and the role it played in WWII in for both people and the environment.
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History Talks!
Guarding the South Sound: Homeland Security the
Old-Fashioned Way
Wednesday, December 8, 6:30 p.m.
Lacey City Hall, Council Chamber and Online via Zoom
For online access, please click here to register in advance.
Please note: History Talks may move to online only, due to Covid-19. Please check here for updates.
A formal, permanent National Guard of Washington came gradually and haltingly into existence in the decade before statehood. Spearheading the initiative was Rossell O’Brien, an Olympia official and sponsor of a privately funded Guard company, the Capitol Guards. He was just in time. The new Guard units deployed to support communities when a rash of urban fires destroyed downtowns across the state. Then those units volunteered en masse to serve the nation in a foreign conflict. Historian Bill Woodward locates this origin story in the South Sound area, and explains how the Guard’s “dual mission” continues to serve state and nation in the 21st century.
William Woodward, Ph.D., is emeritus professor of history at Seattle Pacific University. Woodward completed served in the Washington State Army National Guard in 1997 and was also their state historian.
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