PAST EVENTS
Saturday, August 19, 2023. 
Guided hike to Glines Canyon Overlook of the Elwha River with Pacific Northwest Historians Guild.
September 13, 2023. “Centuries on Foot: Historic Trails in the North Cascades,” North Cascades Institute.
August 9, 2023, 1 p.m. Hiking Washington’s History, History Hour Series at West Seattle Senior Center.
June 3, 2023, “Centuries on Foot: Historic Trails in the North Cascades,” Mountain Film Festival, Concrete, WA.
November 10, 2022. Talk on 25 Sugarland Road as part of History Hour Series at West Seattle Senior Center.
September 15, 2022. Washington State History Museum. “Centuries on Foot: Washington’s Historic Trails”
June 26, 2022. Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums’ annual conference, sponsored by Fort Nisqually Living History Museum, Tacoma; presentation with Lorraine McConaghy related to Free Boy: A True Story of Slave and Master.
May 14, 2022. Auntie’s Bookstore, Spokane. Hiking Washington’s History.
April 20, 2022. Mountaineers Tacoma Program Center, with Craig Romano. Hiking Washington’s History. Registration is required.
April 21, 2022. Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, with Craig Romano. Hiking Washington’s History.
April 11, 2022. University of Washington Faculty Auxiliary. Hiking Washington’s History
March 24, 2022. The Red Barn at Wenatchee River Institute, Leavenworth, Washington. Hiking Washington’s History.
March 16, 2022. Brick & Mortar Books, Redmond, Washington. Hiking Washington’s History.
December 4, 2021. Author fair at Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, Indiana signing 25 Sugarland Road, Letters of Love and War, 1943-1945.
November 19, 2021. Business and Professional Women’s Club, University of Washington.
November 13, 2021. Nature of Writing Speaker Series, North Cascades Institute and Village Books, Bellingham, Hiking Washington’s History.
September 9, 2021. Hiking Washington’s History with Words, Writers, and Southwest Stories, sponsored by the Southwest Seattle Historical Society.
August 30, 2021. “Books and Beer,” Dunn Gardens, Seattle.
July 17, 2021. Hike Coal Creek with Steve Williams of the Newcastle Historical Society and members of the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild.
June 22, 2021. Hiking Washington’s History. Mercer Island/Newcastle libraries.
June 3, 2021. Virtual book launch for the second edition of Hiking Washington’s History, co-authored with Craig Romano. University Bookstore, Seattle.
May 21, 2021. “Washington Remembers: From Marcus Whitman to Billy Frank, Jr., Stories of Washington’s Memorials and Statues,” virtual talk to The Woman’s Century Club
October 18, 2019. With Rick McClure, retired U.S. Forest Service archaeologist, I talked to the Northwest Archaeological Society about my search for Aypax-kan-ishchit, the Yakama-Cowlitz Trail.
September 24, 2019. The Olympia City Council declares Charles Mitchell Day, honoring young Mitchell who escaped from slavery in Olympia to freedom in Victoria, as chronicled in Free Boy, A True Story of Slave and Master.
September 21, 2019. “Finding Women on Historic Trails” at #CampCon2019, a camping conference on public history at the San Juan Island National Historic Park.
August 31, 2019: Talked about the history of West Seattle improvement clubs during Cycle History with the Southwest Seattle Historical Society and West Seattle Bike Connections.
July 22, 2019: Led history hike in Schmitz Park for Seattle-Tacoma Friendship Force.
July 13, 2019: Led Pacific Northwest Historians Guild hike at Deception Pass.
April 6, 2019: Led Friends of the Gorge hike on the military road in Columbia Hills State Park.
September 1, 2018. Cycle History, Work it West Seattle, a local labor history bike tour sponsored by the Southwest Seattle Historical Society and West Seattle Bike Connections.
July 21, 2018. Led a hike to the ghost town of Monte Cristo.
May 15, 2018. “Hiking Mountain Loop History” at Arlington Library.
May 3, 2018. Led Friends of the Gorge hike through Columbia Hills homestead history.
March 3, 2018. Pacific Northwest Historians Guild conference. Hosted “Finding an Audience.”
December 6, 2017. Talk on Walking Washington’s History: Ten Cities, to Seattle Probus Club.
October 12, 2017. Led “An Itinerant’s Itinerary,” a walking tour of working-class Spokane, part of the Pacific Northwest History conference on “Hidden Histories, Diverse Publics,” sponsored by the Washington State Historical Society.
October 13, 2017. “Lost in History: What Happened to Charles Mitchell?” Pacific Northwest History Conference, Spokane, Washington.
September 30, 2017. Walking Washington’s History: Ten Cities talk at Olympia Timberland Library.
August 15, 2017. Walking Washington’s History: Ten Cities talk at Lake Forest Park Library.
July 27, 2017. Walking Washington’s History: Ten Cities talk at Chehalis Timberland Library.
July 22, 2017. Coal Creek Trail hike for the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild.
July 13, 2017. Walking Washington’s History: Ten Cities talk at Auburn branch of King County Library.
June 24, 2017. Walking Washington’s History: Ten Cities talk at Enumclaw branch of King County Library.
June 12, 2017. Walking Washington’s History: Ten Cities talk at Issaquah branch of King County Library.
April 23, 2017. Walking Washington’s History: Ten Cities talk, Everett Public Library
April 7, 2017. Hiking Washington’s History talk at Words, Writers and West Seattle, Barnes & Noble, Westwood Village.
March 29, 2017. Walking Washington’s History: Ten Cities, University of Washington Faculty Auxiliary.
March 20, 2017. Walking Washington’s History: Ten Cities, Northeast Seattle (NEST) Cafe
February 24, 2017, “Black Lives and the Law in Washington Territory,” talk to Washington State Assistant Attorneys General, Olympia
October 15, 2016. “Trails to History,” Washington State Trails Coalition Conference.
August 25, 2016. Walking Washington’s History: Ten Cities, Renton Public Library.