The City of Spokane has been the home to a whole host of fascinating heroes, heroines, movie stars, sports figures, politicians, and national figures in its 2025 years of (modern) existence - each with an interesting story to tell. In part one of this series on the City of Spokane, the entire length of its history was explored without pausing on the biographies of the many individuals whose contributions over the decades helped make the city into its beautiful and modern iteration today. With no pre-requisite for having taken the first course, the present series of classes with consider the biographies of 60 Spokane ancestors essential for a complete understanding of modern Spokane.

In this four week class you will learn how paint reflections, light on water, ocean waves, and moving water. In each class we will attempt to complete one 8x10 painting. 

Not the longest economic depression in U.S. history, but definitely the most severe and heart-breaking, the period of 1929-1941 well-deserves the moniker of 'The Great Depression'. At home, the Dust Bowl of 1931 -1939, insect infestations, 25% unemployment, drought, the collapse of agriculture, the end of Prohibition and many social experiments by the great devotee of Woodrow Wilson, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, were all punctuated by happenings abroad with the rise of fascism, the Spanish Civil War and economic warfare with Japan. What a decade! Join us as we refresh our parents' memories of this interesting time in American History.