Many charities run benefits that are designed to just make money. Others run events that inform, educate and entertain, but also support the institution. Working on the Railroad 2011 was…
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I don’t know about you, but I grew up thinking history was all dates, wars and Important Names. But the word story is in there for a reason. In college,…
The chapel car 5 Messenger of Peace’s rehabilitation has begun in earnest. The Museum has been fundraising for this long-planned project for over three years. On January 31, 2011 a…
The Museum hosted its first Working on the Railroad benefit dinner at the TPC Snoqualmie Ridge. Attended by 137 people, the March 5th event was an unqualified success. Great food,…
Today – March 1, 2010 – is the anniversary of a northwest tragedy: the Wellington Disaster. On March 1, 1910, at about 1:15 AM, an avalanche over ½ mile in…
The story behind the storytelling is unexpected. Gary Krist didn’t start out to write a narrative nonfiction book about the Wellington Disaster. For one thing, he wrote novels and short…
March 1, 1910 was a disastrous day in King County. Two occupied trains – a mail train and a passenger train – yarded at Wellington, Washington, near Stevens Pass, waiting…
