Hickory Shirt Heritage Days celebrates the logging history of the West End. Here an unidentified man is seated on a single-drum donkey engine in Forks during the late 19th to early 20th century. (Bert Kellogg Collection)

Hickory Shirt Heritage Days celebrates the logging history of the West End. Here an unidentified man is seated on a single-drum donkey engine in Forks during the late 19th to early 20th century. (Bert Kellogg Collection)

Hickory Shirt Heritage Days activities continue in Forks

  • Olympic Peninsula News Group
  • Monday, October 14, 2024 1:30am
  • Entertainment

Hickory Shirt Heritage Days activities will continue this week in Forks with the following activities:

• Tuesday, the West End Historical Society will hold its monthly meeting at the Congregational Church, 280 Spartan Avenue, at noon.

WEHS holds a large number of historic local photos and a slide presentation of some of them will be shared.

Everyone is welcome and lunch is available for $8.

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• Wednesday, is “Wear Your Hickory Shirt Day.” At the morning West End Business meeting, 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., at the Congregational Church, the Pioneer Logger Award winner will be announced.

At noon, go back in time to enjoy a Lonnie Archibald video of Hickory Shirt Day 1985 at the Forks Chamber of Commerce meeting. The Chamber meeting runs from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Blakeslee’s Bar and Grill, 1222 S. Forks Ave. Lunch is available for purchase.

• On Friday, the Eighth Annual COAST MRC River & Ocean Film Festival will take place at the RAC, 35 N. Forks Ave., in downtown Forks.

The event offers film explorations of local rivers and oceans, doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Films start at 7:30 p.m.

The film festival is sponsored by the North Pacific Coast Marine Resources Committee with the support of Washington Sea Grant, and celebrates the freshwater and marine environments of the West End of the Olympic Peninsula.

This event is free and family-friendly.

• On Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., The West End Maritime Heritage Symposium 2024 will share information on various maritime heritage projects and topics on the Olympic Coast.

Maritime heritage is a broad legacy that includes not only physical resources, such as pre-contact archaeological sites and historic shipwrecks, but also archival documents, oral histories, traditional seafaring and Indigenous knowledge.

The event will take place at the Rainforest Arts Center, 35 N. Forks Ave.

RSVP is preferred but not necessary. Lunch may not be available for those who do not RSVP.

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