An Interview with Laura May Abraham (Booker)
Laura May Abraham [Booker] – Section from Olympia: Voices By Stephen Charak We encourage readers to use the form below to make comments and suggestions. Disclaimer
Olywa Days of Change
History of the Olympia Farmers Market
History of the Olympia Farmers Market By Stephen Wilcox We encourage readers to use the form below to make comments and suggestions. Disclaimer
Wild Days of Experimentation – By Pat Holm
Our music and what we wore were the things most visible to other generations. Lots of creativity was going on in our relationships and our denial of materialism. Times “were a changin’.”
Car-Nation – By Pat Holm
I was a puppeteer for many years, an art form I used in teaching to engage, entertain, and educate. In the late 1980s I worked at the Department of Ecology as a transportation coordinator to get people to drive less, take the bus more, walk more, and bike more to work. With this in mind I came up with the idea to do a giant puppet show
Goodbye to Richard Nixon – 1974 – By Steven Kant
VIGNETTES Goodbye to Richard Nixon – 1974 By Steven Kant We encourage readers to use the form below to make comments and suggestions. Disclaimer
How a Data Report on Racial Bias in Corrections Affected My Career – By Pat Holm
I am proud of that work. It took discipline to stay with it and finish the paper. This paper and the story in the Seattle Sun pretty much destroyed my ability to ever get another job in the DOC research shop, however. I had tried getting the attention of my supervisor and the bosses above him about what I had discovered. But unequal treatment of minorities was not anything they were interested in, that is until I went public. So, in many ways I do not regret that I did what I did.
The Communist Party in 1970s Olympia – Ann Vandeman – By Bethany Weidner
“The Party people were the only ones who consistently linked race and class and I was attracted to that. Those people and their ideas helped me answer big questions I had at that age: why aren’t people nicer and what about fairness? I found them sympathetic because their values were consistent with the ones I had come to.”
EPIC Action During US Air Force Band Performance – 1972
Using a PA system, we announced that we would be showing a slideshow to reveal the actual military purpose of the air force in Southeast Asia, noting that we were not attacking the individual band members, but rather bringing attention to bear on the actual role of the air force itself, especially in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
Moldy Mansion: Tales of Dumpstering and Billboarding – By Regon Unsoeld
There were in fact two such households. The first, appropriately called the Moldy Mansion, was located on the water side of West Bay Drive within a few hundred feet of Harrison Avenue. It was a two-story structure with a beautiful view of Mount Tahoma (Rainier) at Steh-Chass (Budd Inlet) near the southernmost point of the Salish Sea. A jungle of dense blackberry vines wove around the house and all the way down to the water.
1972 Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan – By Ramona Bennett
There’s a lot involved in moving 1,500+ miscellaneous Indians in 400 or 500 cars cross country. Our Northwest organization, Survival American Indians Association, raised support from the Episcopal church, other denominations, many individuals of all races and politics for travel, food, campsites, and medical services with help from American Indian Movement (AIM) chapters.