PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County Historical Society will host an online Q&A session with Caroline Collins at 4 p.m. Saturday.
The talk costs $12. A recording of the session will be available to all who register.
Collins is the curator of the society’s new exhibit, “Take Me to the Water: Histories of the Black Pacific.”
The exhibit highlights the many Black whalers, commercial mariners, fishers, explorers, soldiers and sailors who traveled along the Pacific Coast from the 16th century to the mid-20th century.
Collins, an assistant professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at UC San Diego, is a co-founder of Black Like Water, an interdisciplinary research collective at UCSD that highlights Black relationships to the natural world.
For more information or to register for the Zoom link, visit www.jchsmuseum.org.
