Shine Review  highlights the city’s events and personalities for 157 years: from its charter in 1860 to 2017. Each year’s entry also includes a summary of world events, notable personalities, memorable sports victories, awar-winning books and movies.

History is about you. Use the search tool above the illustration to pick a significant year in your life and  the same for another generation in your family – wherever they lived. It may reveal the reason for differences in social and political attitudes among members of your family. It will certainly be an entertaining subject for conversation.

The lithograph above was created by Eli Glover. To learn more about the itinerant artists who recorded the appearance of new communities in the Pacific Northwest, see Panoramas of Promise by  John W. Reps.