Smithsonian Day at the Log House Museum

On Saturday, September 25, 2010, The Log House Museum will join participating museums and cultural institutions nationwide to open their doors free of charge to all visitors who download the Museum Day Ticket from Smithsonian.com. A journey to celebrate our world’s dynamic heritage and cultural life, participating Museum Day venues emulate the free admission policy of the Smithsonian Institution’s Washington, D.C.-based facilities.

Museum Day 2010 is poised to be the largest to date, outdoing last year’s record-breaking event. Over 300,000 museum-goers and 1,300 venues in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico participated in Museum Day 2009. Last year, two million visitors logged on to www.smithsonian.com/museumday to learn more about the program.


The Log House Museum is a project of the Southwest Seattle Historical Society and collects, preserves and shares the history of the Duwamish Peninsula. This is the society’s third year of participation, and the first with a walking tour included. The 50 minute tour will include the historic area surrounding the museum and begin at 10:45 am. The museum is open on Saturday 11-4 and located at 3003 61st Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98116. www.loghousemuseum.info


For your free Museum Day Ticket visit www.smithsonian.com/museumday.
Visitors who present the official pass will gain free admission for two people to participating museums and cultural venues. One ticket is permitted per household, per email address. Listings and links to participating museums’ and sponsors’ sites can be found at www.smithsonian.com/museumday. Toyota of North America is a sponsor of the 2010 Smithsonian Magazine Annual Museum Day.

Reminder : Rainy Day walkin' tour in the morn

Saturday, September 18th, 2010.
Reminder to you all to join us at 10 am for Peder Nelson's Walking Tour of Schmitz Park! Stroll the 53 acres of history, hear the tales, get dripped on by large fir trees... it will be a blast.
The tour will meet at the northwest entrance to the park on 58th Ave SW and SW Stevens St near Alki Elementary. Rain or Shine of course.

Hope to see you then,
Cheers for history! ~ Andrea
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(Photo courtesy City of Seattle, Department of Neighborhoods)

September 18th Entertaining Walking Tour - Old Growth Forest Schmitz Park

Cheers for History! Andrea ~
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WHEN : September 18th, at 10:00am

WHO : Join local historian Peder Nelson on a walking tour of West Seattle's old-growth gem, Schmitz Preserve Park. Learn how this beautiful city park came to be and how it has remained an urban forest while traversing its many scenic trails. Experience West Seattle in its natural state!

WHERE : The tour will meet at the northwest entrance to the park on 58th Ave SW and SW Stevens St near Alki Elementary. 98116, West Seattle. Rain or Shine of course.

Free with museum membership (available pre-tour) or $5 donation.

MORE INFORMATION : Visit www.loghousemuseum.info or call 206-938-5293



Images Courtesy : (right)City of Seattle Parks and Recreation. Modern walking trail map
(left) Seattle Municipal Archives, Sherwood Collection

Sponsored by the Southwest Seattle Historical Society (501C3) all proceeds benefit the Log House Museum

August Public Walking History Tour - Riverside

To be specific ... Saturday, August 28, 2010, 10 a.m. Seattle poet and writer Richard Hugo wrote of his fascination with this community of fishermen in The Real West Marginal Way.Walk the old neighborhood of Riverside on the northwest side of the Duwamish River, below Pigeon Point and over the hill from Delridge. Settlement origins go back to the Duwamish tribe, later settled by Croatian immigrants in the early 1900’s. They formed a multi-ethnic neighborhood of European immigrants where Duwamish camps and longhouses had once been. As the Duwamish River was straightened and dredged, the residential community of Riverside co-existed with manufacturing and shipbuilding. The tour is sponsored by the Southwest Seattle Historical Society and will be led by first-generation resident Frank Zuvela. Last time this was one of the most popular walks... an easy pace is set, with frequent stops and tales from Riverside of the past sixty years.
Donation requested... or free attendance with a new museum membership!



Directions: From the stoplight at Spokane Street and Delridge Way, take W. Marginal Way east. After it curves under the low bridge over the Duwamish River, take the first right and park in the parking area on W. Marginal Pl. to the north.