League of Snohomish County Heritage Organizations

The League of Snohomish County Heritage Organizations invites individuals and groups to submit nominations for their heritage projects in Snohomish County completed in 2013.

The League’s Malstrom Awards are offered to recognize outstanding contributions to preserving our heritage in Snohomish County and to share experience, skills and resources. We encourage and welcome applications of all types and sizes to help acknowledge those that may go unnoticed outside of our local communities.

Eligible activities include historic preservation of architecture, cultural sites, historical or genealogical research/collections, exhibits, publications (print and online), video/film and museum work. While an individual may be named to represent the project, it is usually the project and not the individual for which the award is made.

Malstrom Applications due Feb 15th, 2014

Beginning this year, if there are more than two publications nominated, there may be two awards given, one for a publication and one for a project.

The winner will be announced and honored at this year’s Heritage Day luncheon, March 1, 2014.

You can find an application on the League website at

https://snocoheritage.org/malstrom-awards/

After careful review of each impressive project, we have selected a winner that we feel best meets each of the criteria of new or unique information, interpretation and/or discoveries; contributing to the preservation and/or interpretation of Snohomish County; use of Best Practices; effective collaboration with other community organizations; and creative use of resources.  Though each of the nominees had impressive projects, we have selected Maltby and Neighbors by Elsie L Mann.  This work not only met all of the criteria, but it also created a lasting legacy for Snohomish County that will be around for many generations.   It demonstrated an impressive amount of research, hard work, and collaboration.

Judges:  Cristy Lake and Jessie Cunningham Northwest Railway Museum Snoqualmie Washington

Malstrom Award for 2012 – the publication “Maltby and Neighbors” by Historian Elsie Mann.

“Maltby and Neighbors” is a book documenting the history of the previously undocumented areas in South-Central Snohomish County, including the small communities of Maltby, Grace, Cathcart, and Clearview  as well as settlements at Paradise, Crystal, Echo and Lost Lakes.  The author is local historian, Elsie Mann.  Several decades of research came together in this work published in 2012.

See below (previous posts) for information on other nominees.