Our updated 2007-2008 directory is now available! Please contact if you would like a printed catalogue. Presentations linked to our upcoming traveling exhibit, New Harmonies are indicated below. See complete list.

2007 — 2008 Inquiring Mind Speakers  - Available through June 30, 2008

Antoinette Botsford

Animals as Teachers: Mythology, Folklore and Earth Wisdom

Talking Quilts, Hidden Stories: The Bible Quilts of Harriet Powers


Susan Butruille

Abigail Scott Duniway In Washington

Tea, True Womanhood, and Uppity Women


Linda Carlson

Speeders, Galloping Geese and Doodlebugs: Little Trains that Served the Northwest


Hank Cramer

Bound for the Northwest: Songs of Settlers and Sailors    

Celtic to Cowboy: Roots Music of the American West    


Henry Friedman

I'm No Hero: Journeys of a Holocaust Survivor


Peter J. Fromm

Marine Transportation History

Whale Tales, Human Interactions with Whales


Karen Haas

Tales from the Times of Lewis and Clark

Back to the Fur Trade

Westward Ho!


Allan Hirsch

American Legends in Story and Song    

More than the Ocean: Lewis and Clark for Children


Vincent T. Hutchinson

A Concert of African American Spirituals    

Songs and Stories to Reconcile By    

Underground Railroad Quilts


David L. Nicandri

The Columbia River as Imperial Prize: Mackenzie, Clark, and Thompson 1793-1811


Jack Nisbet

The Mapmaker's Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau, 1800-1812

Pacific Northwest Naturalist David Douglas


Brian Pertl

American Roots Music: A Sonic Adventure of Continental Proportions    

Banjos, Diddley Bows and Musical Saws:
The Secret Lives of America’s Folk Musical Instruments    


Susan Noyes Platt

Four African American Artists Working in Washington State Since 1945:
James W. Washington, Jr., Jacob Lawrence, Barbara Thomas, Marita Dingus

Maya Lin and the Confluence Project


Mary Kline Rose

Guarding International Secrets: The Pacific Fleet 1841-1844

Namesakes of Nature


John Salicco

From Banjos to Blues: An American Musical Experience    

Jacques Portier — Old Nor' Wester


Inga Wiehl

But What Do the Humanities Do?

Radios, Rakes and 'Rowing': Life on the Columbia and in the Nation, 1928-29