Interested in learning more about the history of our local area? Please join us for a NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM on Thursday evenings this summer as we hear from locals who have stories to share about our upper county history. Sessions are held in the Carpenter House Museum’s basement (accessed directly thru the north facing basement steps) from 6:30-7:30pm. At the end of each presentation, there will be time to take questions from the audience, followed by a short social time with refreshments available. Our 2023 schedule will be announced soon!
PAST SPEAKERS AND VIDEOS
August 18, 2022 lecture presented by Alisa Weis on Unearthing The History of Roslyn’s Black Pioneers. (no video available)
August 4, 2022 lecture presented by Louie Osmonovich on Backcountry Packing Into The Okanagon-Wenatchee National Forest. (no video available)
July 14, 2022 lecture by Dan Plouse on What Does The Space Shuttle Have To Do With Easton? (see video below);
June 9, 2022 lecture by Gordon Jones on Cle Elum’s Mining History (see video below);
June 30, 2022 lecture by Roberta Newland on the Cle Elum Fire of 1918 (see video below):
October 3, 2019 lecture by Paul Fridlund on the Roslyn Mine Explosions. (see video below)
September 19, 2019 lecture by Sue Litchfield and Lynda Solter on The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly: The Tumultuous Years of Upper County Hard Rock Mining. (see videos below)
Part I – Watch Video Part II – Watch Video
June 2018 lecture by Roberta and John Newland on their book “The Cle Elum Fire of 1918” (see video below).
August 2018 lecture by Shirley Wainright on the new DNA component of family history and ways to use DNA in furthering one’s family geneaology search. (no video available)
October 11, 2018 lecture by Mary Pittis on the new train engine coming to the South Cle Elum Depot. Following are the Powerpoint slides from that presentation.
Our 2017 lectures focused on life during World War II.
October 12, 2017: Hartvig Vatheuer and Helga Johnson “Life in Germany”
PART I – Watch Video
PART II – Watch Video
October 26, 2017: Bonnie Hawk “Local Life”
PART I – Watch Video
PART II – Watch Video
Northern Kittitas County Historical Society (NKCHS) 