Southwest Seattle Historical Society—in partnership with Seattle Public Library—is launching our new 2018 season of “Southwest Stories,” a speakers series featuring historical stories from the Duwamish Peninsula.

information from Southwest Seattle Historical Society

Our speaker Phil Hoffman—guest curator at the Log House Museum—presents his talk on Navigating to Alki: Early Maps of the Duwamish Peninsula, a story told through maps of the growth and development of Alki and the northern end of the Duwamish Peninsula through 1907. Drawing upon the historical maps collection of the United States Coast Survey and scholarly work assembling the history of the Duwamish people, the Alki and Peninsula’s progression from a ‘land untouched’ prior to the European-American exploration to emergence as a residential, recreation and industrial center is chronicled.

Phil Hoffman says, “Outtakes and bonus features not appearing in the museum exhibit are given prominence in this presentation.”

See the video here

https://vimeo.com/loghousemuseum/navigatingtoalki

Alki resident and Log House Museum Guest Curator Phil Hoffman is a recent retiree from the University of Washington where he was most recently Director of the Office of Institutional Studies. He is a graduate of Wayne State and Georgia State Universities holding degrees in political science and urban planning. He is an Atlanta, Georgia native where as an undergraduate he published his first history paper, “Creating Underground Atlanta”, in the September, 1968 edition of the Atlanta Historical Bulletin.