Lakeside Lectures: 1920’s Tales From Washington’s First Highway
Location: Meadow Shelter at Lake Sammamish State Park
Address: 2182 NW Sammamish Rd Issaquah WA 98027
Contact Email: director@flssp.org
Website: Event Link
Date: Friday August 21, 2026
Time: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Price: Free
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.
This program is part of the Humanities Washington’s Speakers Bureau program, in which cultural experts discuss history, politics, music, philosophy, and everything in between at venues around the state.