Community Program

Would you like to learn more about your family’s history? Or are you an experienced genealogist who enjoys helping others break through “brick walls” in their research? Genealogy enthusiasts of […]

At the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, Betty Robinson, a seventeen-year-old student from Chicago, won a gold medal in the inaugural offering of women’s track and field. Three years later as […]

On August 1, 1947, the tragic crash of a B-25 bomber in Washington State triggered an FBI investigation of “The Maury Island Incident”—an infamous Northwest UFO sighting, and history’s first […]

WASP Pilots in front of USAAF B-17 "Pistol Packin Mama." Lockbourne, Ohio, United States, circa 1943-1945. (courtesy asset of National Museum of the USAF) "Dave tells the story of Women […]

Newspaper research can help further genealogy research. A name in a newspaper can pinpoint a location for an ancestor at a particular time. Mentions in the legal notices, property records […]

Join us and experience Woodinville's history coming alive in a captivating and visual storytelling journey through the decades."

In 1998, a judge declared Snohomish County’s first cemetery “lost and forgotten.” Its not-so-permanent residents had been divided by a highway, unearthed and reinterred at other cemeteries, or—worse yet—left in […]

While the Mosquito Fleet is the prominent symbol of Puget Sound’s maritime history, the region was also the base for fleets of coastal and ocean liners. Often smaller and sometimes […]

Throughout the Northwest, people have been reporting encounters with the Sasquatch—a hairy, eight- to ten-foot-tall hominid—for hundreds of years. Yet aside from a collection of large footprint casts and a sizable […]

How did your town get its name? What about your neighborhood school? Or that locally made candy bar? In this talk, get the big picture of how names were given […]

Explore the exciting history of local inventiveness in technological, civic, artistic, and political change, characteristic of metropolitan Seattle residents. This program is richly illustrated with images from patent drawings to […]

Woodinville Pioneers Come to Life - Susan woodin DAR chapter A  Living History Walk at Woodinville Cemetery The Woodinville Cemetery becomes a place where local history feels close. “Woodinville Pioneers […]