WEEKEND: History Tales event in Port Angeles to feature memories of West End on Sunday

PORT ANGELES — Adria Fuhrman, lifetime resident of Forks, will lead a talk about West End memories during the Clallam County Historical Society’s History Tales lecture series at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

The free presentation will be at First United Methodist Church, 110 E. Seventh St. Parking and entry to the church’s social hall are on Laurel Street.

Joining Adria are Christi Baron, editor of the Forks Forum, and Lonnie Archibald, West End author and freelance photographer.

Baron will share stories of her time in Forks.

Archibald, whose photos have been published in the Peninsula Daily News and Forks Forum, will talk about his new book, Here on the Home Front: WWII in Clallam County.

He will have copies of his book available for sale.

His books also are on sale at Native Art Gallery and Gift Shop in Blyn; the Museum & Arts Center and Harts’s Fine Books in Sequim; Olympic Stationers Inc., Odyssey Bookshop, Peninsula Daily News, and Port Book and News in Port Angeles; the Joyce General Store; the Lake Pleasant Grocery in Beaver; and Native to Twilight, Chinook pharmacy, Leppell’s Flowers and Gifts and Forks Thrifty Mart in Forks.

For more information about History Tales, phone the Clallam County Historical Society’s office at 360-452-2662 or email artifact@olypen.com.

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