Yesterday I finally managed to visit the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum to see their current exhibit, "The Heart of the Museum Part II: Seeing Local History Through Scrapbooks." And about time, too! The exhibit has been up since January 5th...
It was a Saturday afternoon to remember. At one o'clock friends and family of Marian Lee gathered at the Senior Center in Klipsan to visit, to eat, and to celebrate her life. They listened to the music she enjoyed during her 100+ years, told...
My early morning visit to the cemetery was practical rather than sentimental, but there was plenty of time for the gamut of feelings. Miki, one of yesterday's participants in our small ceremony for Nyel, wrote that she arrived home with only one...
I think that I can actually count on one hand the number of times our Oysterville Friday Night Gathering has been cancelled -- with the exception of the Covid Days, of course. This coming Friday -- day after tomorrow counts as one of those few!...
"Self," I said to myself... "It's high time to get on with this downsizing project!" It's a project Nyel and I began several years ago with an eye to leaving the house in understandable condition when it's our time to shuffle off. "Understandable"...
Today I did the impossible. At least that's what I would have told you yesterday! I stood for two hours, walked a couple of miles, and had a first-hand look at Ilwaco from 1850 to 1890. In fact, some of that time I wasn't even in Ilwaco -- I was...
If you are interested in local history, especially the history of early Ilwaco, Community Historian Michael Lemeshko and the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum are offering you a fabulous opportunity! Walking tours of historic Ilwaco beginning in...
No sooner had I posted my (very late) blog yesterday, than I received a couple of photographs from Collections Manager Betsy Millard and a short note regarding the exhibition of Tucker's Christmas Cards at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum. So,...
If you know Tucker Wachsmuth (or Chester or Chet or Tuck -- depending on how and since when), you are probably aware that he is always busy at this time of year. It's the holiday season and each year since he and Carol were married in 1970, he has...
In all fairness, CPHM's "Out The Window Art Auction" was not meant to be the same as its annual "Six by Six" predecessors. Hence the name change and the differences in entry requirements, presentations, etc. We knew all that going in, but even...
When four-year-old Christian Hawes told his his Uncle Dick, “It’s not the long-agos that are hard to remember; it’s the short-agos” I knew exactly what he meant. But Christian is older now -- maybe in his late thirties? -- and we might be a bit...
I think there are 90 or 100 of them. Scrapbooks! Year upon year of them about our lives -- about the people we love; the places we've worked (The Bookvendor, Ocean Park School, Long Beach School, Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum when it was still...