We have a name! After lots of entries from all over the community, a title for Florence Petersen’s new book has been chosen. In the end, Florence combined one of her own ideas with one of the titles entered. The new title will be… First Tracks: Whistler’s Early History Congratulations to winner Stephen Vogler – […][...]
Local historian Florence Petersen has been quietly working away on her book on Whistler’s pioneers for the last three years and with the help of the Whistler Museum, she hopes to get it published in the next few months. There’s only one problem…. it doesn’t have a name! The book tells the story of Whistler […][...]
Happy Birthday to us! In the summer of 1986 Florence Petersen began fulfilling a promise. You see, Florence had made a promise to Myrtle Phillip and Dick Fairhurst that their stories would not be forgotten. Phillip and Fairhurst were concerned that the early days of the valley would be forgotten entirely as skiing became the […][...]