In 1808, Russian trading ship St. Nikolai ran aground off the western shores of Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula. Forced off the ship and onto land, eighteen-year-old Anna Petrovna Bulygina is captured and traded to the Makahs, an indigenous group of people living on the coast. Based on historical events first reported by a Russian fur trader and a Quileute elder, Anna, Like Thunder blends fact and fiction to explore the early days of contact between Indigenous peoples and Europeans along the west coast of North America. Author Peggy Herring is trained a journalist and has worked for the CBC. She is a world traveler and currently resides in Victoria, B.C. She is the author of This Innocent Corner and her short fiction has been featured in a variety of publications, including the Antigonish Review, New Quarterly, and Prism International.

Come early and explore the museum. Entrance to this talk is free with museum admission.