Projects & Presentations
We know where the stories are buried
Media
Click here to read The Stranger article
"How Do You Lose 3,200 Dead People? Unearthing the Story of Seattle’s Lost Cemetery"
by Bess Lovejoy and photos by Billie Winter
April 2025
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Click here to see the video of the Divine Deconstruction event from February 4, 2025. Recorded by Clay Eals
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Click here to read the HistoryLink essay, "Duwamish Cemetery (1876-1912)," published on May 17, 2024, about the Potter's Field, by Phil Dougherty.
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Click here to read the March 7, 2024 South Seattle Emerald article, "Invisible Histories Podcast Unearths Forgotten Histories of South Seattle."
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Click here to read the February 12, 2024 Georgetown Gazette article, "Seattle-based podcast highlights lost stories of Georgetown"
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Click here to read the October 26, 2023 Seattle Met article, "The Toxic Legacy of Seattle's Lost Cemetery"
Click here to watch the King5 Evening segment February 23, 2023, "What Happened to the Remains of 3,260 People?"
Performance and Audiovisual
Invisible Histories is available to provide a live presentation or present on video to groups and organizations. Please reach out to us to learn more and schedule your event.
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Daughters of the American Revolution, November 2025
McMenamins at the Olympic Club in Centralia, WA in October 2025
West Seattle Historic Society, June 2025
UW CHID program, April 2025
Greenwood Senior Center, March 2025
Lochkelden, February 2025
Edmonds Waterfront Center, February 2025
Click here to see the 2025 MOHAI History Cafe event (January 15, 2025)
Researchers Elke and Cari share how they uncovered the mysteries surrounding the Duwamish Cemetery aka The Potter's Field.
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Click here to view the "Potter's Field Seance" filmed during the 2023 Georgetown Haunted History Tour. Madame Victoria (played by creator Elke Hautala) invites you into her 1916 parlor to commune with the spirits from Seattle's "lost" Potter's Field.
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Click here to watch Elke Hautala's short video from 2022, "3,260 Souls," about the Duwamish Cemetery or "Potter's Field." How does one feel and experience what has been "lost" to history? This is an audiovisual exploration of visibility, marginalization and the damage wrought by industrialization at any cost.
Searching for SODO
Invisible Histories is part of the Mouth of Duwamish Facilities program consultant team for King County Wastewater Treatment Division, providing research and recommendations for public historical engagement.
King County's Mouth of Duwamish Wet Weather Facilities will reduce overflows from 5 combined sewer outfalls where the Duwamish River meets Elliott Bay. In 2024, Invisible Histories developed a research plan, contacted archives, cultural and heritage organizations, and produced a research dossier of photos, documents and themes to implement during future phases of the project. Below is a section of the research report and presentation. Additional work samples are available upon request.
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