Community Program
“Fast Girls: Trailblazing Women Olympians” by Elise Hooper
Brightwater Education Center 22505 State Route 9, Woodinville, WA, United StatesAt 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 […]
“UFO Northwest – How the Washington State Spawned the Men in Black” By Steve Edmiston
Brightwater Education Center 22505 State Route 9, Woodinville, WA, United StatesOn 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 […]
World War II Women Air Force Service Pilot (WASP) – ‘Lib’ Erickson. by David Waggoner
Brightwater Education Center 22505 State Route 9, Woodinville, WA, United StatesWASP 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 […]
“A Nose for News: Sniffing Out Stories in Newspapers” by Mary Kircher Roddy, CG, CGG
Brightwater Education Center 22505 State Route 9, Woodinville, WA, United StatesNewspaper 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 […]
“50TH ANNIVERSARY SIGNATURE EVENT”
Brightwater Education Center 22505 State Route 9, Woodinville, WA, United StatesTo Be Announced
