A few photos from Friday’s third grade Youth on the Columbia field experience. Students learned about Native American life on the Columbia Plateau and activities included paddling in voyageur canoes at…
Presenting A Realistic Look At “Cowboys and Indians”
Above a Virginia Beavert (left) and friends as young women in the Yakima Valley. Virginia Beavert and Sharon Glenn will present the historical program “Cowboys and Indians: Not Your Hollywood Version!” at…
Presenting Finnish-American musician Wilho Saari
Nationally-acclaimed Finnish-American kantele player Wilho Saari will give an informal talk and concert on Friday, May 15, at 7 p.m. at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. The program…
Presenting Sin Fronteras Latin Folk May 22
Sin Fronteras, or “without borders,” will present a concert at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center on Friday, May 22, at 7:30 p.m. The program is associated with the…
Finnish-American musician Wilho Saari To Play May 15
Nationally acclaimed Finnish-American kantele player Wilho Saari will give an informal talk and concert on Friday, May 15, at 7 p.m. at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. The…
Sandy Cohen Named New Museum Director!
The board of trustees of the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center has contracted with Sandor “Sandy” Cohen of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to become the museum’s new executive director. “We are pleased…
American Masters Come To The Museum May 1
The national touring exhibit “Extraordinary Ordinary People: American Masters of the Traditional Arts” will open Friday, May 1, at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. It recognizes exceptional folk…
An Actor Prepares, Interviews the Daughter of Robert Graves
Don Collins (left) will be portraying award-winning artist and Wenatchee Valley College instructor Robert Graves during People Of Our Past Feb. 28 at the Museum. Graves helped make public art…
The ‘Joiner’ was a ‘Maker’ who helped establish WVC and the Museum
Kenneth P. Sexton was known as a “joiner” by his colleagues, but he could have just as easily been labeled as a “starter” or a “mover and shaker.” At the same…
‘Return of the River’ Doc at the Museum Feb. 17
When Frances Charles, chairwoman of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, proposed a plan to remove the Elwha River Dam, everyone told her she was crazy. Four years later, Frances’s “crazy…