Justice White House (taken by D. Sinick)

Find out on January 10th. The following is from the Redmond Historical Society’s latest newsletter:

“The Civil War ~ in Washington

That’s the topic of our January talk by noted historian, Dr. Lorraine
McConaghy.
“In 2011, we will mark the first year of the sesquicentennial of the
Civil War, a war fought over principle that claimed nearly 600,000
American lives,” says McConaghy, who works for Seattle’s Museum
of History & Industry. “We associate the war with battlefields in the
southeast, but the Civil War was a national
war, that involved its citizens on the
Pacific Coast.
“This presentation will explore
some of the ways in which settlers
in Washington Territory became
involved in the politics and violence
of the war,” she adds. “Settlers did
not leave the war behind them, but
brought the war with them.”
Join us on January 10 for histories and
images from our ties to the war.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 10
10:30 A.M. TO 12:00 NOON
at the
OLD REDMOND
SCHOOLHOUSE
16600 NE 80th Street”