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By Richard Hao, Youth Director At Large Edited by Laura Lee Bennett, Executive Vice President On November 8th, the Redmond Historical Society welcomed Dr. Ed Sobey for his presentation, “Northwest Passage–The Challenge, the Suffering, the Discovery,” at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse. He outlined the long search for a shorter route to Asia, begun after Magellan’s impractical passage. Thousands tried to force a northern route through Arctic ice, and Dr. Sobey traced both their st

By Paige Norman Anthony Mathew Emmanuel was born June 6, 1924, in Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Mary Emmanuel, their fourth son and seventh child. By 1930, the family had moved to California. After serving on an aircraft carrier during World War II, Tony  returned to California and married Betty (Wing) in 1954, moving to Washington in the 1960s. He was a field representative and store designer for Bel-Square Equipment Company in Seattle, and worked with Duane Isackson at Duane

By Richard Hao, Youth Director At Large Edited by Laura Lee Bennett, Executive Vice President On October 11th, the Redmond Historical Society welcomed Ray Larson, Associate Director and Curator of Living Collections & the Otis Douglas Hyde Herbarium at the University of Washington Botanic Gardens. He took the audience back in time to pre-industrial Seattle with his presentation, “The Flora of Seattle in 1850: Major Species and Landscapes Prior to Urbanization.” Based on Ray’s

By Richard Hao, Youth Director At Large Edited by Laura Lee Bennett, Executive Vice President From Nirvana and Pearl Jam to The Sonics...

By Paige Norman Credit: Patsy Rosenbach After growing up in the High Desert of California, Thomas Wilhite moved to Washington in 1995 to...

By Richard Hao, Youth Director At Large Edited by Laura Lee Bennett, Executive Vice President On April 12th, 2025 at 10:30 am at the Old...

To honor our roots and the Chinese Community • To showcase our resilience and contributions • To inspire all for a prosperous future...

By Richard Hao, Youth Director At Large Edited by Laura Lee Bennett, Executive Vice President On March 8th, 10:30 am at the Old Redmond...

By Paige Norman, Membership Chair In a memoir written to sons Steve and Fred in November of 2004, and updated July 2010, Dr. Lewis Fink...

By Laura Lee Bennett, Programs Chair On February 8th, 10:30 am at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse, the Redmond Historical Society welcomes...

Thank you for attending the Redmond Historical Society's annual ice cream social. We hope this year's event was a fun opportunity to see...

By Laura Lee Bennett, RHS Programs Chair On November 9th, 2024 at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse, author and naturalist David B. Williams...

As part of her monthly video series "Here in Redmond!" and in honor of Women's History Month, Mayor Angela Birney recently met with the...

In August of 2023, the Redmond Historical Society partnered with Venues for Artists in the Local Area (VALA Eastside) to present "Dudley...

By Laura Lee Bennett On October 14th, 10:30 am at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse, Redmond Poet Laureate Laura Da’ will discuss the practice...

By Laura Lee Bennett On May 20, 2023, past Redmond Poet Laureate, Rebecca Meredith led a writing workshop at VALA Art Center based on the...

Questions by Deb Akerstrom Feliks Banel is a broadcaster and historian who focuses on Pacific Northwest history, geography, cartography,...

By Colleen Kemp Master pastel artist, art teacher, entrepreneur, and author, Dorisjean (née Mittmann) Colvin was well known in the...

By Paige Norman Karen Snepp’s family hails from Indiana, where Karen spent her early childhood years before moving to Glen Ellyn,...

By Paige Norman The Isackson family history in Redmond begins when John and Johanna (Jonsson) Bengston arrived in Redmond in 1887,...