YOU'RE INVITED - JAPANESE GULCH ARTIFACTS - VOICES FROM THE DIRT

Join Thomas Murphy, Emily Scott and selected students from the Learn and Serve Environmental Anthropology Field School (LEAF) who completed an archaeological field school in Japanese Gulch during the summer of 2012.   Listen as college students and their instructors who participated in the excavation will draw upon the artifacts that they have collected to help tell the story of an early twentieth-century Japanese American community located near the Mukilteo waterfront.  The presentation is free and will be held in the Everett Music Project Theater located in the Everett Mall  - December 6^th at 7pm. The Learn and Serve Environmental Anthropology Field (LEAF) School began at Edmonds Community College in April 2006 and expanded to Everett Community College in July 2012. The mission of the LEAF School is to combine traditional ecological knowledge and citizen science to help make our communities more sustainable. Students participate in hands-on service-learning projects in local communities while earning credit in a series of courses in archaeology and human ecology and . To learn more visit: www.edcc.edu/leaf.

The lecture is presented by the Snohomish County Historic Preservation Commission.