Curtis Alum Describes Pre-Pioneer Days in UP at Historical Society Presentation

From the University Place Historical Society: 

Blue bunch grass, now rarely seen in University Place, once covered the land and burned every summer. The smoke from this and other fires in the open grasslands of early 19th Century Pierce County clouded southern Puget Sound.

Furthermore, the smoke was entered into early descriptions of the weather and landscape by some of our county's first settlers.

University Place's first permanent residents constituted a Native Hawaiian from the big island, a foul-mouthed English shipwright and a Coast Salish Indian named Steilacoom. Intrigued? Join the University Place Historical Society at a special presentation on UP's pre-pioneers this Wednesday.

Steve Anderson, a 1973 Curtis High School graduate, the son of the Historical Society's esteemed members Ed and Lorraine Anderson and current Executive Director of the Carteret County Historical Museum in Moorhead, North Carolina, will present "Tales from Sahagalie Palielah: The Pre-pioneer History of University Place" at the next meeting of the UP Historical Society on Aug. 7, at 7:00 pm in Suite D-2 in Windmill Village.  

You do not need to be a member to attend. For more information contact UPHS at 253.778.6717.  See you there!