Thursday, June 15, 2026, 6:30PM, Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, 204 Village Rd Join historian Lorraine McConaghy for a talk based on her book, FREE BOY, the biography of Charles Mitchell, an enslaved boy held in Olympia, Washington Territory. In 1860, Mitchell was recruited to the Puget Sound maritime “Underground Railroad” by a […]

Thursday, April 9, 6:30PM, Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, 204 Village Rd Pacific Northwest musician-historian, Bret Lunsford (Anacortes Museum) unravels a string of mysteries to reveal the avant-garde shards of Harry Smith, a 20th century alchemist in his hometown, Anacortes. Harry Everett Smith (1923-1991) was a boyhood resident of Anacortes, Washington for ten […]

Sunday, March 29, 2026, 1:00PM – 4:00PM, Lopez Museum, 28 Washburn Pl Join KWIAHT and LIHS for our third annual hands-on Heritage Fruit Tree Grafting Workshop and Scion Exchange on Sunday, March 29, 1-4PM, at the Lopez Museum. In our ongoing partnership with KWIAHT exploring the heritage fruit trees of Lopez Island, learn hands on […]