I had to chuckle a bit at someone's remark about our house a few days ago. I had written something on my blog about Oysterville needing a museum and a reader responded, "I thought your home was the Oysterville Historical Museum." It's not the...
Yesterday morning our friend Michael Lemeshko came bearing drinks (café mochas and English Breakfast tea) and a book (UNSETTLED GROUND - The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West by Cassandra Tate.) It was so great to see...
Yesterday, our Community Historians were treated to a rare program, indeed! Tames Alan, actress, historian, and fashion history teacher, brought us "The Intrepid Victorian Traveler." Billed as "a five-costume program," she gave us a look at the...
Yesterday at our weekly Community Historians gathering, the class was devoted to the early history of Pacific County government. It's a topic that we've only touched upon lightly over the years -- almost "in passing" you might say. So, last fall...
When my mother advised "moderation in all things," she was speaking of indulgences, not character traits. Or so I've always thought. Not too many desserts. Not too many drinks. Not too many party clothes -- not too many parties, for that...
Tonight is the 6x6 auction at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Foundation -- the big annual fundraiser for the support of their exhibition programs. A worthy cause but, more than that, a wonderful event starring our local art community. Nyel and I...
Adelle and Bob Beechey were good friends of my folks. They had both grown up on the Peninsula and, since their marriage in 1937, they had lived in Ocean Park. I spent a lot of time with Adelle in the '90s and '00s. She was a storehouse of...
I love reading aloud! I love doing it and I love to listen to other people do it and I love to incorporate it into the teaching/learning opportunities of various aspects of my life. Today our Community Historians had an opportunity to participate...
Each Wednesday morning, Tucker Wachsmuth takes an artifact from his extensive and eclectic collection to our Community Historian class at the Heritage Museum. Sometimes what he takes is directly related to the day's main topic. Sometimes it's...
"After we're gone, who will be left to tell the stories?" Jim Sayce asked me. That was probably nine or ten years ago in a past dim enough that I have no memory of what prompted his call to me. Nevertheless, it was an intriguing question and we...
And here it is! December 1st already! It's the day I allow myself to begin thinking about Christmas – the cleaning and polishing and fluffing; the decorating; the gift-making or purchasing; the wrapping. I know that most people are way ahead of...
This Friday evening, November 16th from 5:00 to 7:00, is the opening reception for a new exhibition at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum, "The Graveyard of the Pacific: Dangerous Currents, Shifting Sands." More than 20 ships will be featured in...