Local History News
Two books celebrating the history and heritage of Washington County, one on recipes and another on family history, are shaping up quite well and will soon close to submissions. However, you still have a few weeks left to get your entry in to one or both of the books.Cemeteries are usually places for quiet contemplation and thoughts about loved ones since departed.Week of Feb. 5 to Feb. 11100 yearsThe feminist vote will no doubt play a prominent part in the coming city election as 247 members of Marysville's fair sex have qualified as electors and will be entitled to cast their ballot along with the men. 50 yearsColors of a spring...All too often, people assume Fort McMurray is here solely for the oilsands, yet this place has a rich, intriguing history dating back centuries.[...]Saturday February 4, 2012 Feb. 4 50 years ago today ADAMS -- Enlisting for three years of service in the Navy, Timothy Alibozek, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Alibozek of Burlingame Hill Road, began his basic training at Great Lakes (Ill.) Naval Training Station. Alibozek enlisted at the Navy Recruiting Station in the North Adams Post Office and was flown to the Illinois trainingFrom our archives, 100 years ago A traveling correspondent chronicled the significant changes taking place on the arid lands around Moses Lake and Ephrata.The past and present meet in Vancouver Then and Now, an interesting collection of photographs and stories on Vancouver's history. Dozens of landmark buildings and monuments are featured in historical images from the city's archives.Discussions ranged from how the city should mark its distinction of being Benedict Arnold's birthplace and new efforts to celebrate the city support for abolition of slavery to new downtown revitalization efforts.Tower Hamlets activists will kick off LGBT History Month tonight with a talk held at the Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives on Bancroft Road.Step right up and relive the early 1900s when criminal gangs terrorized the Midwest as former Colorado Springs Police investigator Dwight Haverkorn presents ?The Frank Lewis-Dale Jones Gang? for the PLocal History - Yahoo! News Search Results
