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Claim to fame: Morris won a Bellingham Mayor's Art Award in 2005 for her work promoting local history. A longtime volunteer with Whatcom County Historical Society, she has coordinated more than 100 free local history programs, and helped start the society's journal.

Morris worked with historians, families, museums and libraries on the Whatcom Memories Project, and edited the "Whatcom Memories: Photo Album" book. She also has written about such local history topics as Mount Baker Theatre, the Northwest Washington Fair, Deming Logging Show, the evacuation of local Japanese-Americans during World War II, and women in the commercial fishing industry.