Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Local history events
'Couple items to note: this Saturday is the living history immersion event at Lakewood's oldest museum, Fort Steilacoom. Military and civilian re-enactors will be interpreting and 'living' the year 1860.
This is a great way to introduce history to kids who think history is just something in books. And it's fun for everyone. Last year some flirting was so fierce that one of the sergeants almost married a 94-year-old member of the Lakewood Historical Society there on the spot. It was sweet, and they were both laughing something ferocious.
The living history is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday the 13th. The re-enactors themselves are actually spending the whole day there, in order to get fully immersed in 1860.
And now, for Lakewood's second oldest museum, the Lakewood Museum. It's currently located in the Colonial Center, but there are plans to expand. The annual meeting will be Oct. 16. The link is to a thorough writeup in The Suburban Times, but the short version is 7 p.m. Oct 16 at Clover Park Technical College. Assuming talks with the college continue as they are going, this may be a formal announcement of the plans to remodel a 13,000-square-foot hangar into a museum there at the campus. We're all pretty excited about it.
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This is a great way to introduce history to kids who think history is just something in books. And it's fun for everyone. Last year some flirting was so fierce that one of the sergeants almost married a 94-year-old member of the Lakewood Historical Society there on the spot. It was sweet, and they were both laughing something ferocious.
The living history is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday the 13th. The re-enactors themselves are actually spending the whole day there, in order to get fully immersed in 1860.
And now, for Lakewood's second oldest museum, the Lakewood Museum. It's currently located in the Colonial Center, but there are plans to expand. The annual meeting will be Oct. 16. The link is to a thorough writeup in The Suburban Times, but the short version is 7 p.m. Oct 16 at Clover Park Technical College. Assuming talks with the college continue as they are going, this may be a formal announcement of the plans to remodel a 13,000-square-foot hangar into a museum there at the campus. We're all pretty excited about it.
