Lacey Parks Events

Program Description

The Evergreen Ballroom story is an immigrant story, a local community story, and a music lovers’ story. From the time it was constructed to the last day that music played, the dance hall saw a number of people cross its stage who would go on to musical fame. In this presentation, Rebecca Sanchez will cover her research from a series of local history articles published on Thurston Talk.

Speaker

Rebecca Sanchez is an educator and a freelance writer. Her published writing encompasses history topics, travel destinations and people’s stories. In addition to covering Thurston County history and human-interest stories on Thurston Talk for a number of years, her work has also been published in Northwest Travel & Life Magazine, in regional magazines in Texas and Oklahoma and in her own travel blog.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in secondary education English composition and a master’s degree in language and literacy acquisition. When she is not in the classroom teaching language arts, she is traveling to write about and photograph the unique and historical locations she visits.