Sehome Hill Arboretum

City of Bellingham as Seen from Sehome Arboretum at Western Washington University

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Top 14. Best Tourist Attractions in Bellingham - Washington

Top 14. Best Tourist Attractions in Bellingham - Washington: Whatcom Falls Park, Fairhaven Historic District, Boulevard Park, Lake Padden Park, Mount Baker Theatre, Spark Museum of Electrical Invention, Nooksack Falls, Larrabee State Park, Lake Whatcom, South Bay Trail, Big Rock Garden, Whatcom Museum, Sehome Hill Arboretum, Bellingham Railway Museum

Sehome Neighborhood Historic Resource Survey Presentation

Presentation by Historic Preservation Northwest to the Historic Preservation Commission on July 23, 2013.

winter bellingham hike pics

Bellingham Voices -501- Winter Haven

Deb first talks with Richard Sepler, City of Bellingham Planning and Community Development Director, about homelessness in our community. Then they talk about Winter Haven, a new cold weather camp at City Hall.

Deb's second guest is Jim Peterson, president of HomesNOW! Not Later, the organization building and managing Winter Haven at City Hall. Jim talks about his experiences being homeless, and his life-long dream to house the homeless.

C-SPAN Cities Tour - Bellingham: J.J. Donovan and the Growth of Bellingham

Bellingham Author and Historian Brian Griffin talks about the early history of Bellingham and the people who were integral in its growth including J.J. Donovan, a train and lumber magnate. The presentation was held at Whatcom County Museum in Bellingham.

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Sehome

Kira and I went for a walk in the arboretum and filmed some tricks! I hope you enjoy them!
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Yoyos: Avalanche and Chief
Song: Free Translator by The Books

'Finding History in Our Own Back Yard' - 3/4/2008

Western Washington University Professor Chris Friday will present Finding History in Our Own Backyard: Georgia Pacific, Your House, Your Neighborhood and Public History at WWU from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4, at the Bellingham City Council chambers, Bellingham City Hall, 210 Lottie St.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is offered as the second event of the annual WWU College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean's Lecture Series.

Writer Maxing Hong Kingston once noted that America and especially the American West was a place devoid of history because it was a land without ghosts. As true as that may have been from her Chinese American perspective growing up in the 1950s, Kingston missed an opportunity to understand that the landscape around us is filled with many ghostscapes - the layered meanings and perspectives we create about places across cultures and times. What happens when we consider our own local, familiar landscape in historical perspective? What happens when we disagree on the meaning of familiar places, especially because we see them through lenses we create out of our own peculiar understandings of history and place? How do Western students, the University, and the community benefit from thinking about the local landscape historically?

This lecture will attempt to answer these questions. Friday will also present the Georgia Pacific/Waterfront Oral History project and the current Bellingham Historic Neighborhood project that connect WWU students with the local community in the exploration of history outside the classroom.

Chris Friday is a professor of History at Western Washington University. Friday grew up near Mount St. Helens, got his bachelor's degree at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, then received his master's degree and doctorate in American History from UCLA. He lived in China for nearly two years in the early 1980s and taught in the Boston area prior to coming to WWU in 1992. At WWU, Friday's teaching and research/publication areas are Pacific Northwest History, American Indian History, and Asian American History. For most of the last decade, Friday has also been director of the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies at Western Washington University (an archives and small research institute). Most recently, Friday started a Public History minor at WWU, which is designed to help students see the connections between their interest in history as an academic subject and history as a discipline practiced in settings well beyond teaching in any classroom.

The purpose of the Dean's Community Lecture Series is to foster connections between the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the local community. What better way to make such connections than learning about our city from our own historians, such as Chris Friday, said Ron Kleinknecht, CHSS dean.

Friday's presentation will also be taped and rebroadcast on Bellingham BTV 10.

Western Window episode 7

This episode of Western Window, made by the students of Western Washington University, takes a look at Western's recent ranking as the top college in its class for Peace Corps volunteers, upcycled art from students in Western's Industrial Design Department, alumni making a big name for themselves in the manufacturing world, and more.