THE BIG MAPLE TREE by Mrs. Cecil M. (June) Swanson
Happy Valley in the 1930's by Mr. Wilson Schwehm
Innis Arden ArchivesIn 2002, Innis Arden resident and historian, Guenter Risse, volunteered to organize the Club's surviving records dating back to the 1940's. To assist his archival work, he also compiled a timeline of events, and placed them within the context of post WWII developments in the Pacific Northwest. The research was based on the unusually rich documentation of Innis Arden's various activities as well as a number of publications that included Robert Ficken's The Forested Land: A History of Lumbering in Western Washington,(1987) and Robert Fishman, Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia (1987). Also featured is the early career of William Boeing, Innis Arden's developer, and his wife Bertha who was responsible for the naming of the community. Other information is based on data obtained from the UW Special Collections of the Pacific Northwest and the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild. Risse also spoke to Barbara Stenson Spaeth, grandniece of Bertha Boeing, who had interviewed William Boeing Jr. The timeline remains a work in progress and its author expects others in the community and elsewhere to continue it, fill in gaps and supplement the sketch with their own recollections. He has compiled a timeline as shown below: