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New video focuses on Wenatchee newspaper family

New video focuses on Wenatchee newspaper family

Rufus (left) and Wilfred Woods inside the Wenatchee World’s press room. (Photo courtesy of Wenatchee World) One of two Washington newspaper families featured in a terrific Legacy Washington-produced book is the subject of a new video that will be on our YouTube channel. The 12-minute video, called “Kings of The World,” focuses on the Woods family, which has owned and operated the Wenatchee World for more than a century. It includes interviews with 96-year-old Wilfred Woods, the former publisher and…

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Historian/journalist John Hughes honored by state

Historian/journalist John Hughes honored by state

After being praised by Secretary Wyman (left), John C. Hughes addresses the crowd at a reception honoring him in Wyman’s office. (Photo courtesy of Laura Mott)  John C. Hughes was honored by the state Senate and Secretary of State Kim Wyman on Tuesday for his robust 50-year career in journalism and doing critically acclaimed oral history for Legacy Washington. A large delegation from Grays Harbor and dignitaries, colleagues and friends from Olympia filled the ornate Senate gallery as Sens. Jim…

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Watch TVW’s coverage of WA 1889 exhibit launch

Watch TVW’s coverage of WA 1889 exhibit launch

Secretary Wyman helps launch our office’s new exhibit on 1889 Washington. Seated from left are former Sen. Stuart Halsan, Shanna Stevenson and Russell Holter.   If you missed attending the recent grand opening of our office’s latest historical exhibit, no worries. TVW has the event available for viewing on its website. The new exhibit is called Washington 1889: Blazes, Rails and the Year of Statehood. It’s on display in our office’s front lobby until next August. You can watch the…

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Honoring our dedicated volunteers

Honoring our dedicated volunteers

Secretary Wyman presents volunteer Rose Banks with the Roger Easton Award of Excellence. (Photo courtesy of  Mary Hammer) Hundreds of volunteers play an important role in our office, collectively devoting thousands of hours of their time doing tasks like transcribing and indexing digitized documents online using Scribe software for our State Digital Archives and doing on-site projects in processing and research for our State Library, Washington Talking Book & Braille Library and Legacy Project. Their tireless dedication makes it possible for…

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Kickstarter deadline for new exhibit fast approaching

Kickstarter deadline for new exhibit fast approaching

Washington 125 Years of Statehood logo. (Images courtesy of Legacy Washington) A Kickstarter private fundraising deadline is fast approaching for the latest Capitol exhibit — this one devoted to some of the biggest stories of the year of statehood, 1889. This is the 125th anniversary of being admitted to the union. Legacy Washington, a program of the Office of Secretary of State, is gathering funding for the sixth public exhibit in the ornate lobby of the Secretary’s Office on the…

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RIP Billy Frank Jr.: `A singular force’

RIP Billy Frank Jr.: `A singular force’

(Photo courtesy of Laura Mott) Billy Frank Jr., a central figure in the decades-long struggle for tribal fishing rights, has died at age 83. Frank, longtime chair of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, Evergreen trustee and civic activist, was subject of a well-received Legacy Project book, “Where the Salmon Run: The Life and Legacy of Billy Frank Jr.”  It is available free online, and for sale in print.It was written by Trova Heffernan and published by the University of Washington…

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Legacy Washington highlights state’s history

Legacy Washington highlights state’s history

We’ve just launched a new webpage and program that highlights our state’s remarkable past and the people who contribute to it. We have rebranded our heritage programs under the umbrella of Legacy Washington (or LegacyWA). Legacy Washington promotes the state’s history through exhibits, books, e-books, videos and online stories, and more. The new program, which combines our Legacy Project and Heritage Center staffs, will draw on the extensive knowledge of the state’s librarians, archivists and historians. Secretary of State Kim…

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Free `GC2G’ exhibit now cooler, with tablets!

Free `GC2G’ exhibit now cooler, with tablets!

Check out a cool new feature of our Grand Coulee to Grunge exhibit   — tablets!  Bilingual translations, great archival photos, drilldown information and more add to the experience of the popular exhibit in the Secretary of State’s lobby in the Capitol. Our Legacy Washington team now has five tablet computers available for office visitors to check out at the front desk to enrich their visit. The exhibit opened late last summer and comes down this October before going on the…

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Legacy Project’s latest: profile on 7-term Auditor Bob Graham

Legacy Project’s latest: profile on 7-term Auditor Bob Graham

Bob Graham and his wife, Lloydine, hold up their wedding photo at their home earlier this spring. (Photo courtesy of Laura Mott)  The Legacy Project’s latest offering, a profile and oral history on former seven-term State Auditor Bob Graham, is now available on its web site. Graham died on April 16 at his Olympia home, four days after his 93rd birthday and just two weeks after his last interview with John C. Hughes, chief historian for The Legacy Project. During…

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7-term State Auditor Bob Graham dies at 93

7-term State Auditor Bob Graham dies at 93

John Hughes (left) interviews former State Auditor Bob Graham at home in March. (Photo courtesy of Laura Mott.)   Robert V. Graham, elected seven times as Washington state auditor, died at his Olympia home on April 16, four days past his 93rd birthday. John Hughes, chief historian for the Secretary of State’s Legacy Project, completed an oral history and profile of Graham just two weeks ago. “His mind was nimble until almost the end,” Hughes says. “During World War II,…

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