A 19th Century Party!
Looking Forward from the Past
Some of the 2011 Living History Company. From left, Bob Bohlman as Aaron Miller, Rod Hahn as John Abbott, Lois Hahn as Josephine 'Dutch Jo' Wolf, Vi Jones as Martha Roberts, Leroy Hogeboom as Doc Turner, and Dick Phillips as William Rockfellow
Perspective is a wonderful thing and is a significant reason behind the study of history and the existence of museums. Knowing what the past gave to the present and how people of the past dealt with problems is critical to making informed decisions about the future. As the Walla Walla region grows and changes, knowing where we came from provides us with the perspective to choose well regarding our own tomorrows.
2009 was the sesquicentennial anniversary of the founding of the town of Walla Walla. At Fort Walla Walla Museum, where keeping track of the region’s shared yesterdays helps everyone in the community to understand today as well as to build better tomorrows, the Living History Company will be looking forward from its perspective in the past. On Sunday, October 30 members of the Company will reminisce about the community's beginnings in 1859.
The Living History Company represents a wide selection of the soldiers, pioneers and Indian people who built a community in the area we call home. From the days of the fur trade into the mid-20 th century, the Company includes Hudson’s’ Bay Company factors and traders, politicians and sheriffs, preachers and teachers, firemen and nurserymen, farmers and ranchers, progressive women and a bordello madame. Visitors are encouraged to interact with the performers and enjoy the heritage of the region.
This is the final performance of the season for the Living History Company and the last weekend the Museum’s national award-winning Lloyd Family Indian Artifact Collection: Positive interaction between cultures in Southeast Washington exhibit. At the close of the visitation season on October 31, the exhibit is scheduled to be dismantled and be made available for inter-museum loan or in other Museum exhibits.
Performances begin at 2:00 p.m. in the pioneer settlement at Fort Walla Walla Museum. Visitors are encouraged to question the Living History re-enactors about their lives and times. The Museum is open daily, 10 am - 5 pm, April through October; 10 am - 4 pm, November1 through December 23; and weekdays, 10 am - 4 pm, January through March.
Admission is free to Fort Walla Walla Museum members,
eligible service personnel & their familes through
the Blue Star Museums program, Tamástslikt Cultural Institute's
Inwai Circle cardholders,
enrolled members of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and all children under 6;
$3/children
6-12; $6/seniors (62+) and students; $7/adults.
Your admission fee today may be applied to a membership,
priced beginning at $27. For more information, contact Fort Walla Walla Museum at 509-525-7703, or email: info@fortwallawallamuseum.org. |
