Lecture & Booking Signing with author Coll Thrush, PhD

"Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific"
Lecture and Book Signing with author Coll Thrush, PhD
Tuesday, July 8, 2025, 11:00AM - 12:00Noon
Ford Room in the Main Museum Building
1792 Marine Drive, Astoria OR

In this provocative retelling of shipwreck tales from the Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver Island coasts, historian Coll Thrush discusses what maritime disasters can tell us about Native-newcomer relations and about the region's history more broadly.
Coll Thrush is a professor of history at the University of British Columbia and founding co-editor of the Indigenous Confluences book series at the University of Washington Press. He is the author previously of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place and Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire.

Included with Museum Admission - MEMBERS are FREE!
No registration required, seating limited to 50

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