Program: Jennifer Ott, “Honoring the Past and Building for the Future at HistoryLink,” April 3, 2025

When

April 3, 2025    
7:00 am - 8:30 am

Event Type


Join the University Sunrise Rotary Club for a program featuring Jennifer Ott, Executive Director of HistoryLink.

The program will be presented in person and on Zoom on Thursday morning.  The formal meeting including the program runs from 7:30-8:30 a.m.  No registration is required, and the program is free.

  • The in-person meeting will be at the Wedgwood Community Church at 8201 30th Ave NE, Seattle. Doors open at 7:00 a.m. and the program begins at 7:30 a.m.
  • Click here to join the meeting on Zoom.  The line will open shortly after 7:00 a.m.

Jennifer Ott is the executive director of HistoryLink and an environmental historian with a particular interest in Seattle’s history of moving dirt, rerouting waterways, and leveling hills. She has written for Seattle magazine and the Oregon Historical Quarterly. She contributed to A Will to Serve: Stories of Patience, Persistence, and Friends Made Along the Way (2024), Jim Ellis’ memoir, and wrote Olmsted in Seattle: Creating A Park System for a Modern City (2019). She was the general editor and a contributor to Seattle at 150: Stories of the City Through 150 Objects From the Seattle Municipal Archives (2019), and co-author of Waterway: The Story of Seattle’s Locks and Ship Canal (2017). Her new book, Where the City Meets the Sound: The Story of Seattle’s Waterfront will be published this year.


Thanks to Michael Bronsdon for his work on this program!