WCHS Journal #25

NUMBER 25, DECEMBER 2025

• The Mount Baker Marathon, New Book Gives the First Full Account, by Todd Warger and Dean Kahn

• Nels Hammer’s American Story, The Norwegian Tailor Who Crossed an Ocean, by Morten Jensen

• Whatcom Family YMCA Building, The Many Lives of a State Street Icon, by John M. Harris

• Saving Souls on the Last Frontier, Salvation Army and the Mystery of the Cornwall Avenue Plaque, by Todd Warger

• Canada’s Game in the Northwest Borderlands, The Bellingham Lacrosse Club’s Sport Diplomacy, 1904-1908, by Derek Moscato

• A Frontier Fort in 1858, "Report on the Inspection of Fort Billingham," by Joseph K. F. Mansfield, annotated by Lane Morgan

• Bellingham Disaster Book in the Works, Regulatory Change, Intense Emotions from Pipeline Blast, by Ron Holcomb and Dean Kahn

• Recent Books on Local History, compiled by Dean Kahn

• From the Journal Archives -- 2002Akers Taxidermy, by Al Currier