WHC Programs and Exhibits
Upcoming Programs and Exhibits Related to Women's History in Washington State
Washington State Capitol Museum Presentation
Monday, July 30, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
State Capital Museum and Outreach Center
211 SW 21st Avenue
Olympia, WA 98501
360/753-2580
Join author Sydney Stevens as she discusses and reads from her new book Dear Medora: Child of Oysterville’s Forgotten Years, on Monday, July 30, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. at the State Capital Museum in Olympia, 211 21st Avenue SW.
White River Valley Museum Exhibit
May 30 to September 23, 2007
Patricia Cosgrove, Museum Director
918 H Street SE, Auburn
WRVM Exhibit Web Page
Information 253 288-7437
In 1889 when Washington became a state Abby Williams Hill and her husband arrived in Tacoma in response to advertisements acclaiming the magnificence of Northwest mountain scenery. During the following years Abby Hill produced dozens of landscape paintings which were commissioned by railroad companies to extol the virtues of northwest scenery.