HeritageOn Saturday, March 14, AMHA won the League of Snohomish County Heritage Organizations’ 2014 Malstrom Award for Outstanding Project for our revamped website! The award is given each year to one book and one project that demonstrate outstanding contributions to the field of Snohomish County history.
You can read more about it on the League’s announcement: http://www.snocoheritage.org/2015/03/malstrom-award-winners-for-2014-publications-and-projects/ .
Carole Johanesen is a self-proclaimed “people person,” and when you talk to her, or listen to her tell about her schooling, jobs, and volunteering, you can see that’s true.
Carole was born in Everett and graduated from Cascade High School. While working as a secretary for the U.S. Public Health Service, Continue reading
Pop quiz: Can you name someone at Alderwood Manor Heritage Association who was in the first graduating class of Meadowdale High School? One answer is Jan (Canfield) Nofziger.
Jan was born in Seattle, but her family moved to Beech Road in Alderwood Manor the following year to a three-acre chicken farm. After graduating from Meadowdale in 1965, she attended Seattle Pacific College, where she received a B.A. in Elementary Education.
Following college, Jan got married and moved to Ohio for Voluntary Service Continue reading
If you’ve ever wanted to know more about the people behind the scenes at Alderwood Manor Heritage, you’ve come to the right place. Starting today, we’ll be featuring one volunteer per month in the new Volunteer Profiles section of our site. Continue reading
“All in all, in spite of a few bumps in the road, I was a pretty lucky, lucky Alderwood Manor kid.”
If you’ve been a volunteer at Alderwood Manor Heritage Association, especially if you’ve been a host, then you probably know Linda Myers. Linda is our host coordinator, recruiting and scheduling wonderful volunteers to greet visitors at the cottage. If you’ve been to one of our programs at the Alderwood Manor Youth Club, you’ve probably seen Linda’s shining smile greeting you at the door.
Even if you’ve never volunteered at AMHA or been to our programs, you may still know Linda, or know of her: Continue reading
The holidays are a time for joy and festivities, a time for celebration, and to enjoy the people around you. When we think of holidays, we tend to think of families and friends. But it can also be a time to enjoy the company of the people around you you’re not related to. For example, a board of directors. Continue reading
Last year, the AMHA Board of Directors decided to participate in the American Association for State and Local History’s Standards and Excellence Program, also known as StEPs. The goal of the StEPs program is to help museums and historical organizations make themselves better through a self-guided list of standards. In other words, Continue reading
by Tiffany Villigan, 2011
The very early years
Long before you or I were here, the area that is now known as Meadowdale was nothing but lush, green forests and waterfront. If you’ve ever wandered through Lund’s Gulch or the adjoining Meadowdale County Park—following the trails that take you from civilization, through a dense forest and steep ravines, and miraculously deposit you at the clear blue waters of Puget Sound—you may be able to imagine what the area was like 200 years ago. Indeed, it would later be described as “one of the most prettily situated hamlets in Snohomish County,” and “extremely pretty [whose] views of Puget Sound are glorious.”
The region that would eventually be named “Meadowdale” stretched roughly from Continue reading
by Tiffany Villigan, 2011
Part II: Meadowdale continues to grow, and looks to satisfy the needs of its residents
By 1910, the region known as Meadowdale—bounded by current Highway 99 on the east, 180th St. SW to the south, Lake Serene to the north, and Puget Sound on the west—had grown from the uninhabited wilderness of the late 1800s and early 1900s to roughly 100 households.
With the expanding population, typical problems of a growing city began to arise, Continue reading
Starting this week, we’re going to feature a new game on our Twitter account: Where Am I Wednesdays. On select Wednesdays, we’ll post a picture of an Alderwood Manor- or Lynnwood-related site. Some might be obvious, some might not be so obvious. It might be at the Alderwood Manor Heritage cottage, at Heritage Park, or anywhere else related to Alderwood Manor or local history.
Some weeks I may be joined by my friend, Babe Ruth. No, not the baseball player. Babe Ruth is the great-great-great…granddaughter of the famous Alderwood Manor hen, Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth laid 326 eggs in one year and was written about in many newspapers across the country!
If you’re on Twitter, you can follow us @AlderwoodManor to see our #WhereAmIWednesday game. Think you know where I am? Send us a tweet or a reply.
If you’re not on Twitter, you can still watch: type http://www.twitter.com/alderwoodmanor into your web browser, and there we are! You won’t be able to tweet a reply, but you can always come to our website and leave a comment in the Contact Us form on the right of any page. Let me know if you’re enjoying the game, or if you think you know where I am!
Anyone who correctly answers where I am–either via Twitter or our website–will have the satisfaction of seeing their name (first name only) mentioned on Twitter 🙂
Answers will be revealed on the following Sundays.