We're looking forward to
a GREAT season!
Fort Walla Walla Museum re-opens to general visitation
in just 54 days on April 1, 2010.
Right Now!
The Museum Store is having a 10% off sale
on a variety of items!
Stop in at Headquarters weekdays, 9 am - 4 pm
Enter via the staff parking gate on the Museum's upper level.
Enjoy the Museum's Headquarters
Art Gallery & Research Library
weekdays 10:00 am - 4:00 pm throughout the year
except Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year's Day
Monday, February 8 - This Day in Regional History
1864 Making light of the roll-taking of adult men fit for active duty during the Civil War, The Oregonian[Portland] states, "If every man was known to be the age of forty-six or forty-seven years, as they
would have had the enrolling officer think they were, we could chronicle a great excess of young shoulders with old heads, especially among husbands with timid wives."
1887 Passage of the Indian Allotment Act (The Dawes Severalty Act) apportions Indian reservations into 160-acre parcels and allots them to individuals in an attempt to assimilate tribal members as "responsible farmers." Lands not assigned to Indians are made available to white settlers. Devestating to rtibal sovereignty,
by 1934 two-thirds of reservation lands are out of tribal control. In effect, rather than assimilating tribal peoples, they become wards of the government.
Birthdays
Historical
1677 Astronomer/first to publish moons of Saturn tables and for whom the satellite mission to that planet is named Jacques Cassini.
1820 Civil War General William Tecumseh "War is hell" Sherman.
1828 Author Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth).
1906 Seattle physicist/attorney/inventor of xerography Chester Carlson.
1911 Pulitzer Prize winning Poet Laureate Elizabeth Bishop
(North & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel, Geography III,
Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke Box).
1921 Actress Lana Turner (Peyton Place, By Love Possessed, Madame X).
1931 Actor James Dean (Giant, Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden).
Current
1940 TV journalist Ted Koppel.
1941 Actor Nick Nolte (Prince of Tides, Mulholland Falls, The Thin Red Line,
Jefferson in Paris, Cape Fear, Weeds, Affliction, Cannery Row).
1953 Academy Award actess Mary Steenburgen
(Melvin and Howard, Parenthood, Back to the Future III, The Butcher's Wife).
1955 Author John Grisham (A Time to Kill, The Firm, Pelican Brief, The Client).
1961 Rock musician Vince Neil (with Mötley Crüe).
1968 TV personality/California gubernatorial
candidate Gary Coleman
('Arnold' in TV's "Diff'rent Strokes").
There's always something new to see at
Fort Walla Walla Museum!
site updated February 8, 2010
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