Interpretive Specialist Alysa Adams will give a Mount St. Helens eruption talk and lead a craft for all ages. (Washington State Parks)

Interpretive Specialist Alysa Adams will give a Mount St. Helens eruption talk and lead a craft for all ages. (Washington State Parks)

Mount St. Helens story circle planned

TACOMA — The Washington State Historical Society will present “40th Eruption Anniversary Virtual Story Circle: Voices of the Mount St. Helens Community” from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. today, Monday, May 18.

The story circle will be streamed on the society’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/historymuseum/live.

Presented in cooperation with the Washington state Parks and Recreation Commission’s Folk and Traditional Arts Program, the ranger led program commemorates the 40th anniversary of the May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens.

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Story circle participants include Nathan Reynolds, Carolyn Driedger, Robert Harju, Jane Rosi-Pattison, Jo Waddell, Dick Ford and Sue Truman.

Also, Interpretive Specialist Alysa Adams will give a Mount St. Helens eruption talk and lead a craft for all ages.

Participants who want to make a volcano hat along with Adams, should have the following supplies on hand: paper or cardstock; tape, stapler or glue sticks; and crayons, markers, colored pencils or paint

For more information, visit www.washingtonhistory.org.

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