Tacoma Slavonian Hall Heritage Exhibit
Tacoma’s Slavonian American Benevolent Society (SABS) has developed a permanent exhibit of five families that portrays their experience of immigration and settling in Old Tacoma in the early 1900s. Included as well is a presentation of the establishment of the SABS in 1901 along with the first President, Andrew Guich. Several of the families presented in a stunning and colorful seven panel exhibit were involved in the formation and ongoing development of the SABS. SABS became a central social gathering place for food, dancing, singing, companionship and story-telling. Strangers in a new country, the exhibit shows the importance of how the lodge was an essential portal into a new life. The families featured are Kazulin/Vlahovich, Lisicich, Mullan, Petrich and Ursich with depicting personal histories and photographs of weddings, fishing, boat building funerals, parties and community events. Each family tells their personal stories of what it was like to send the fishermen off, plant gardens, make wine and cook delicious food with recipes from the old country. The panels are displayed in the Sunset Room of the Slavonian Hall located in Tacoma, which has now been designated by the membership as the Heritage Room. The SABS membership is dedicated to continuing to collect family stories to chronicle the 120 year history of the SABS and exhibit artifacts that tells the story of the Croatian immigration to America.
Priscilla Liscich will host an informative and interesting presentation interviewing several members of the families featured on the panels as part of the CroatiaFest 2020 Virtual Festival on Facebook on Saturday, October 3rd beginning at 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time.
11:00 AM
