Topics below, with in-depth references, provide an introduction to our area’s history – the coast lands to the west of the mountains from San Francisco Bay to the Aleutians. They are to be complemented by the Pilchuck History Farm, an outdoor laboratory under development to enhance and supplement approved and mandatory State (and Provincial) curricula. At the farm, restored relic structures and tools will provide visual and hands-on-learning. On-line lessons contain elementary and secondary level questions (answers found in prose/photos and URLs respectively). The structure is (CPA) NASBA’s, self-teaching students of all ages. Comments, content, and questions: email bb@plc215.org as we are now adding three 4, 7-9th grade, and adult level questions. Your help would be appreciated in completing this free course material honoring our ancestors, their melding of cultures, diversity and love of inclusion: America the Melting Pot.
Exit 215 History Farm Introduction
Relic Rescues
Forest Grove (0030)
Forest Glade (0020)
Ethnobotanicals (0080)
The 3 Sisters & Potato (0120)
Extinctions (0040)
Monocultures (0130)
No More Giants
A Sea of Clones (0140)
WashingTons of Topsoil (0150)
A Careless Generation (0160)
Killing the Giants (0170)
Thanking John Hauberg (0240)
Thinking of Dietrich & Sophie
Ancient History: Boys in a Boat (0050)
Our Youth Must Save the World
45,000 BC to 3,000 BC Before the Ocean Rose
History Starts with Food (1030)
Ocean Currents (1050)
The Then Unknown (1070)
Rising Shorelines (1090)
Quileute, Stone Age Peoples? (1110)
Camas & Wapato, but no Potatoes (1130)
Underwater History (2040)
Salmon and Wildlife (1150)
PNW Indian “Tribes” (1170)
Face the Wind (1370)
Slavery (5470)
So Many Languages (1190)
Tsunamis (1210)
Middens (1220)
3,000 BC 1772 AD Before Explorers
Early Native American Conflicts (2030)
Early Plagues (2050)
Makah & Norse Longhouses (2070)
Yakima & Sami Tepees (2090)
Chinese & Japanese Iron (2110)
The Chinook (2130)
Population Estimates (2150)
First Nations’ Raids (2190)
Search for Longitude & Latitude (2210)
Common Beliefs (2230)
1772 – 1848 Explorers & Exploiters
Artifact Spanish Coin (3000)
the Spanish at Nootka Bay (3010)
Hispanics (3020)
Otter (3030)
Portuguese (3040)
Russians (3050)
North West America (3060)
Beaver Treaties (3070)
Chinese (3090)
Chinese Exclusion Act (3910)
Welsh (3520)
North West Company (3510)
Lewis & Clark (3130)
Hudson’s Bay Company (3150)
Hawaiians (3170)
French Canadians & Metis (3190)
Sisters of Providence (3310)
Scots (3210)
Chimakum (3230)
1848 – 1865 Gold, Soldiers, Reservations
Mining (4030)
Pig War (4070)
Irish (4090)
African Americans (4110)
Japanese (4130)
Nisqually (5340)
The Recent Indian Wars (4150)
Pioneer Blockhouses (4170)
Who killed Isaac Ebey? (3820)
Fox Island (4180)
Romanical Travelers (4190)
Italian Miners (4210)
Biodiversity (4230)
1865-1915 The Homestead Act & Pioneer Flood
Norwegians (5010)
Mosquito Fleet (5020)
English Logging (2200)
Swedes (5030)
Imported Feuds – H&H (5050)
Brick Streets (5450)
Root Cellars (4160)
Danish Haubarg (5070)
Dutch (5090)
Ukrainians (5110)
Germans (5130)
English Remittancemen (5140)
Early Wives (5350)
Icelandic (5150)
Pilchuck Tribe (5160)
Finish Sauna (5170)
Pioneer Healthcare (5190)
Polish Immigrant Service (5200)
Town of Pilchuck (5210)
Freeborn Village (5220)
The Big Burn (5250)
Property Taxes & Currency (5230)
World Wars & Coming of Age 1915 – Present
The US Experiment (6030)
Today’s Local Challenges (6050)
Model T (5320)
Armenians (6070)
Ku Klux Klan (6080)
Elimination of Tribes (6090)
Haida (6110)
Basics: Wastes & Septic (6130)
Population Dispersion (6150)
A Treaty Topic Neglected
Pilchuck Glass School (6190)
Once Grey Hills (6200)
Gradual Gentle Ceanothus Extinction (6210)
Abandoned Dreams (6220)
Nootka Island Today (6230)
Into the Future: Preventing Species Extinction
Sycamore Stupidity (7030)
McMurray Fir (7040)
Rewild the West (7050)
The Final Frontier (7070)
States Conflict of Interests (7090)
Tree Huggers (7110)
Guerilla Planting (7120)
Molly the Moose (7130)
Beacon of Light? (7150)
For the Birds (7170)
Buffalo! (7190)
Biodiversity’s Enemies (6240)
Good-by to Butterflies (7140)
Into the Future: A Way to Save Mankind on Earth
Religions Create Change (8020)
No Rebar (8030)
Water, The Need for (8080)
Using Bonhoeffer’s Name
Threats to Mankind (8050)
Climate Change (8090)
Fungi & Plagues (8110)
Plastic Waste (8130)
Plutonium (8150)
Clear-cutting on Public Lands (8170)
Cancer Survivors Act (8190)
Biodiverse Corridors (8070)
Herbicides (8210)
Land Use (5370)
When the State is Wrong (8230)
Into the Future: Related Topics
Studio Glass Art (9030)
Potential Museum Collections (9040)
Glass Artists’ Legacies (9010)
Centerpieces (9050)
Italian Glass Artists (9070)
Australian Glass Artists (9110)
Japanese Glass Artists (9080)
Swedish Glass Artists (9120)
Question for the Older Generation (9150)
Who Speaks for the Younger Generation (9240)
A Note for Public School Teachers (2170)