[WSCSS] Free ticket offer for educators

[Polly, Tyler]

I am interested

 

Tyler Polly

Social Studies Teacher

Girl's FastPitch & Basketball Coach

Orting High School

 

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From: Meghan Arnette [mailto:meghan.arnette at seattlehistory.org] 
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 5:03 PM
To: wscss at wscss.org
Subject: [WSCSS] Free ticket offer for educators

 

Hello!  MOHAI is happy to offer 10 free tickets to the inaugural lecture
in the Essential Seattle lecture series to the first 10 teachers who
respond!  Sketching Seattle: The 1855 Seattle Drawings of John Y. Taylor
will be held Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at 7:00 pm.  Tickets are on a
first-come, first-served basis and will include one additional guest
ticket. RSVP to education at seattlehistory.org.  

For decades, historians have believed that the earliest drawings of the
settlement of Seattle were sketched by Lieutenant Thomas Phelps, when
the US Navy sloop-of-war DECATUR was at anchor in Elliott Bay.  Yet,
while researching the ship in 2005, MOHAI historian Dr. Lorraine
McConaghy discovered two collections of earlier drawings by Surgeon John
Y. Taylor.  These drawings, held by the National Archives and Records
Administration and at Yale University's Beinecke Library, include
exciting drawings of the ship's passage through the Strait of Magellan,
and of the 1855 ports of call at Honolulu, Port Townsend, Seattle and
Panama.  Dr. McConaghy will discuss the Phelps drawings, as well as four
of Taylor's remarkable sketches, including the very earliest images of
the settlement of Seattle.

Don't miss this glimpse at a piece of Seattle's earliest history with
one of the region's most renowned and enthusiastic historians!

 

Meghan Arnette 
Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) 
Youth and Family Education Manager 
2700 24th Ave E. 
Seattle WA 98112 
Phone(206) 324-1126 ext. 13 
Fax(206) 324-1346 
www.seattlehistory.org <file:///\\www.seattlehistory.org>  





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