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Abstract: Mr.Coleman discusses buying a house and growing up in Rainier Valley, working in an Alaskan cannery and leisure time activities...

Discover the legacy of the Taylor Mill Company, a pivotal player in Seattle's early timber industry.

The discussion will touch on issues of police brutality and accountability, the current swell of activism and street protests, everyday...

Growing up the eldest of ten children with a single mother, Ruby Chow learned the power of ordinary people helping each other out....

When our Food Stories cookbook was being written we compiled not just recipes but recorded oral histories from people and these oral...

Change is now. The video documenting George Floyd’s murder has shaken the world. America’s silence has been broken and voices have been...

Please join us for an online talk with David J. Jepsen, author of “Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History” on the primary...

Join retired Head Gardener Don Brooks as he gives us a virtual tour of Kubota Garden. This was recorded for our 2020 Annual Meeting.

During Columbia City’s early years, Washington struggled with the prohibition issue. Temperance advocates had begun their work back in...

Thursday and Sunday was spaghetti day Rainier Valley’s Italian heritage goes back a hundred years or more. Back then, the Valley was...

Rainier Valley’s Italian heritage goes more than a hundred years. Back then, the Valley was largely forests and farms, with the streetcar...

RVHS Founder Buzz Anderson with KUOW radio host Steve Scher discuss Columbia City history on 1.26.2001

Fireworks in Columbia City Thomas Gabriel Hitt, known as T.G. Hitt, was born in London in 1874. He studied chemistry at Westminster...

Before the Seattle Mariners, there were the Seattle Rainiers who are playing for the pennant in this story that shows how baseball unites...

by Mikala Woodward, Excerpted from Rainier Valley Food Stories Cookbook Butchering seems to run in families. Jim Ackley, owner of Bob’s...

Excerpts from Rainier Valley Food Stories Cookbook Seattle is known as the coffee capital of the U.S., with espresso stands at every gas...

"It's hard for anyone, even the most pessimistic of pessimists, to spend more than a few minutes in Central Park without feeling that he...

Roy Olmstead. Photo courtesy of The Seattle Times. On March 22, 1920, federal agents nabbed a tugboat crew unloading Canadian whiskey on a beach near Edmonds. Prohibition had been in effect for 3 months, and this was the first big raid in the Northwest – the feds seized 100 cases of liquor and arrested 11 people, including a young police lieutenant named Roy Olmstead. Olmstead was fined $500 and lost his job; the incident ended what had been a promising career in law enforcem

Prepared by Katie Pratt and Spencer Howard of Northwest Vernacular, Inc. on behalf of the Friends of Mount Baker Town Center with funding...