Kristine Harper is a hometown pet sitter, activist, and City of Tacoma employee.

William Hassert has hosted open mics in Tacoma and continues to write poetry about injustice.

Hilltop Library Planning Committee includes: front row, Bil Moss and Billie Johnstone; back row, Ellen Smith, Al Nurse and Linda Oliver. This group oral history interview was taken by dindria barrow on behalf of the Community Archives Center of the Tacoma Public Library at the Red Elm Cafe on October 13, 2022.

Tacoma Community House Spring 2022 English Language student from Ukraine. Interviewed by dindria barrow on May 4, 2022.

Segment with Virginia Anderson about hotels in Tacoma.

Oral history interview of Anna Howerton and Poulsen Vanya conducted on February 25th, 2023, as part of the Archiving South Tacoma Communities event located at the South Tacoma Branch

Oral history interview with Tacoma resident Chace Hunter conducted by dindria barrow on August 25, 2022. In this interview, Chace talks about his family immigrating to Hilltop, Tacoma in 1993, then moving to South Tacoma in 1998, graduating from Western Washington University as well as University of Washington-Tacoma and then buying a home in Hilltop as an adult. Chace’s family fled Cambodia to escape the Khmer Rouge and were refugees in Thailand before coming to Tacoma. He is bilingual and has been married to his husband for six years. Chace has a passion for poetry, psychology, non-profits and nursing. Chace fell in love with his HIV Prevention work and is now the executive director of the AIDS Housing Association of Tacoma (AHAT Homecare). AHAT Homecare provides 24-hour home care, affordable housing/case management, and rental vouchers to the local HIV+ community. To paraphrase Chace: “I love giving back to the community, especially during a time of houselessness, and helping to provide homes to people in need.”

Julius Tollefson discusses early life, coming to the U.S. and Tacoma, work in logging camps. (Interview No. 13, Tape No. 1)

Julius Tollefson continues logging talk, mentions large lumber mills, University Place description, Our Saviour Lutheran Church and Good Temples Lodge. (Interview No. 13, Tape No. 2)

Julius Tollefson continues discussion of Good Temples Lodges, Viking and Sons of Norway Lodges. (Interview No. 13, Tape No. 3)

Fred Stiegler talks early life in McCormick (Wash.), memories of Tacoma (c.1920), strike of 1935, lumber industries in Tacoma, Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.). (Interview No. 29, Tape No. 1)

Interview about rescue work and mountain camps on Mount Rainier. Mountain rescue worker being interviewed mentions legendary mountaineers, the Whittaker twins (Jim and Lou), being rescued off Mount Rainier after Lou Whitaker became paralyzed in his back and hip and “had to have direct aid by rope coming down this ice wall by Dee Molenaar”.

Jim Whittaker is the co-founder of REI and the first American to scale Mount Everest. Both Whittaker twins worked in mountain rescue work in the Cascades of Washington State, were guides on Mount Rainier and were instructors for the US Army’s renowned 10th Mountain Division.

Dee Molenaar is another famed mountaineer, who was also an author and artist. Molenaar was part of the 1953 K2 expedition with Pete Schoening and has climbed Mount Rainier more than 50 times. He died at the age of 101 in 2020.

A recent IPCC report sets out the current facts about climate change and what we must do to avoid the worst.