History Talk: Pavement and Plucky Girls

About this event

Pavement and Plucky Girls: 1920s Tales from Washington’s First Highway Travel 1920s Washington State along one of the first modern highways—the Yellowstone Trail—which ran from here to Massachusetts. Along the way, meet the people and places grappling with the dizzying changes this new innovation brought. From the young people who gained new freedoms—including the women who stunned Pullman by driving without a male escort, to the bootleggers, bachelors, and flappers who drove, walked, and hitchhiked the newfangled road. Join educator Teresa Andre for a series of fascinating stories that lay at the dawn of our car-obsessed culture. Doors open at 6:45. This presentation is part of Humanities Washington’s Speakers Bureau program, in which cultural experts discuss history, politics, music, philosophy, and everything in between at venues around the state. Humanities Washington opens minds and bridges divides by creating spaces to explore different perspectives. It is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.