Larry Burtness

Larry Burtness is a planner, grant writer, author, local historian, and independent multimedia developer whose work brings together community service, cultural preservation, storytelling, and practical technology.

Much of his work is rooted in the communities of Washington’s North Olympic Peninsula. He has contributed to projects involving local history, historic photographs, community development, museum planning, and the preservation and presentation of Indigenous language and cultural materials. His approach combines careful research with a strong respect for original sources, the people who created them, and the communities to which they belong.

Through Olympus Multimedia, Larry develops accessible tools for authors, educators, researchers, and small organizations. His projects include multimedia-authoring software, publishing and book-development tools, historical archives, language-learning resources, documentation systems, and specialized applications for small businesses. He is especially interested in creating tools that allow people to manage their own work, preserve it locally, and continue using it without dependence on costly or short-lived services.

Larry is also the author and developer of several fiction and children’s-book projects, including *The Wurlitzer*, a supernatural mystery series set in Seattle, and *George the Morgan Horse*, a children’s series inspired by the life of a rescued horse on a small farm in Clallam Bay. In both his technical and creative work, he values continuity, craftsmanship, accuracy, and the patient development of ideas over time.

Whether he is reconstructing a piece of community history, designing a multimedia application, preparing a book for publication, or helping preserve an endangered language, Larry’s work has a consistent purpose: to make valuable knowledge understandable, usable, and available to the people who will carry it forward.