Date: Thursday, April 26, 2018
Time:
Refreshments: 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Presentation: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Moses Lake Museum & Art Center, 401 S. Balsam St.
Cost: FREE
Event Sponsors: Humanities Washington and the Daughters of the American Revolution Karneetsa Chapter
One-hundred years ago in 1917, the US entered The Great War to fight alongside our European allies. But Washington’s home front experience began long before the country entered the war, and continued afterward.
This talk is presented by Humanities Washington and the Washington State Historical Society in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of America’s involvement in World War I.
Led by historian Lorraine McConaghy, the program begins with an illustrated introduction to the war’s themes before offering a “Readers’ Theater:” a script that is read aloud together, allowing participants to speak the history they are discovering. The script includes excerpts from newspapers, diaries, writings, speeches, and correspondence, and is based on extensive research in primary source material focused on the war’s impact on Washington - and how Washington impacted the war. The reading covers the period between the successful Prohibition referendum in 1914 through Seattle’s General Strike and President Woodrow Wilson’s visit to Washington in 1919. Learn about and discuss this dramatic period of immigration, wartime industrialization, women’s rights, social change, radical labor, epidemic disease, and worldwide turmoil.
Thursday Apr 26, 2018
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Moses Lake Museum & Art Center, 401 S. Balsam St., Moses Lake, WA 98837
FREE
Phone: (509) 764-3830
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