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Living History Company Performances
page updated January 21, 2012

History comes alive every weekend at
Fort Walla Walla Museum!

Your business, club, or organization can be a
Living History Company sponsor!
Contact the Museum for more information.

April through October performances at 2:00 pm every Sunday,
PLUS Saturdays, June through August. 

The heritage of the Walla Walla region is colorful and varied, made of a wide assortment of people from many cultural backgrounds. Shifting and blending, sometimes creating new identities, but always influencing one another in many ways, these diverse sources continue to make Walla Walla a special place to live, work, and play. Pride of place is a hallmark of the region; we treasure and celebrate all the different aspects that define who we are.

Music, dancing, food, dress, language, religion … these and other facets of culture make up the identifiable outer appearances of groups. More difficult to identify is the way people within a culture think and see the world. Much can be done to increase the understanding of different points of view by sharing your cultural celebrations with neighbors and guests.

If your group is interested in participating
at Fort Walla Walla Museum,
please contact the Museum at 525-7703.

LH 2001
Members of the Living History Company, 2011


The Oregon Trail Band
[l-r] Leroy Hogeboom (guitar) Gordon Hare (violin),
Bob Bohlman (autoharp & harmonica)
and Neil Busby (guitar & keyboards)
Enjoy 19th century popular music from the Museum's own
Oregon Trail Band every first & third Sunday of each month!

Museum membership entitles you to free admission
to all Fort Walla Walla Museum Living History performances and events and now includes cost-free admission to
Tamástslikt Cultural Institute
!

  Soldiers, Pioneers, & Indian People,
meet the people who built a heritage!

The 2011 Living History Schedule:
performances at 2:00 pm each Sunday
plus Saturdays, June through August

Performances begin at 2:00 pm in the quiet of the Museum's
pioneer settlement or the climate-controlled comfort of the Grand Hall,
as determined by the weather.

This year's theme:
The Changing Face of a Pioneer Town
(schedule subject to change)

Date

Historical Figures & Presentations

Historical Interpreters

April 3

John Colter, Lewis & Clark expedition member

Paul Franzmann

April 10

Joseph Meek, mountain man & U.S. Marshal

Mike Bates

April 17 Open House/Town Meeting:Walla Walla 150 years ago in 1861 The Full Company
April 23

Sigmond Schwabacher, Jewish merchant & immigrant

Steve Rubin

May 1

Sarah Miner, Pioneer School Teacher

Barbara Daniel  

May 8

What About the Neighbors? (Marcus & Narcissa Whitman)
William McBean, Hudson's Bay Company trader & Catherine Sager, Oregon Trail orphan

Richard Monacelli with Stella Gryler

May 15
Bror Sorenson, Mormon sect follower
Ron Klicker
May 22

Col. Michael McCarthy, soldier & militiaman

Bob Bennett

May 29
Fred Stine, 'rags to riches' blacksmith & hotel owner
Charles Saranto
June 4 Ed & Elizabeth Burlingame
Burlingame Ditch developers and their daughter Maybelle
Tom Williams & Jill Zagelow with Chloe Koehler
June 5
Judge William Langford, Territorial Justice
Judge Don Schacht
June 11
19th century historical interpreters and more
June 12
19th century historical interpreters and more
June 18

James McAuliff, militiaman, merchant, musician, & mayor

Clark Colahan

June 19
John Abbott, stage coach operator & miner in a wheelwright demonsttration

Rod Hahn & friends

June 25

Josephine Wolfe, pioneer madame

Lois Hahn

June 26
John & Catherine Stahl, brewmasters David & Jill Emigh
July 2
Nancy Wiseman, pioneer woman
Harriet Hart Beach
July 3
Paul Kane, Frontier artist

Kristen Hair

July 9

William Phillips, hardwareman, tinsmith, & early Fire Commissioner

Dick Phillips
July 10

Caroline Wood, Augusta Moorhouse, William Nichols & Aaron Miller,
Seventh Day Adventist pioneers

Elaine Derby, Cleo Forgey, Gordon Hare, & Bob Bohlman

July 16

Fr. Eugene Chirouse, Catholic missionary

Jean-Paul Grimaud
July 17

Sarah Jane Williams, pioneer homemaker

Teri Sannar

July 23

Maria Greenwood Whitman, homemaker & songster

Barbara Clark

July 24

Marion Bauer, classical composer

Susan Pickett

July 30

Sam Black, Hudson's Bay Company man

Tom Williams

July 31
Dan Clark, Judith Fortney, Sam Pambrun, Richard Monacelli, Jeannot Poirot, and Jean-Paul Grimaud
Aug. 6

Charles Tung, Chinese merchant & interpreter

Galen Tom
Aug. 7

Rev. Cushing,
Protestant missionaries

Rogers Miles

Aug. 13

Annie Mix, New Orleans lady

James McAuliff, merchant, musician, & mayor

Deana Underwood

Clark Colahan

Aug. 14

Lucie Fulton Isaacs, patron of the arts and suffragist

Liz George

Aug. 20

William McBean, Hudson's Bay Company trader

Richard Monacelli

Aug. 21
Women's History Celebration/Ice Cream Social with Lucie Isaacs & Women of Walla Walla including Maria Whitman, Suzanne Cayouse Dauphin, Annie Mix, 'Dutch Jo' Wolfe Martha Roberts, Sarah Miner, Elizabeth & Maybelle Burlingame, Elizabeth Sager, Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart, Augusta Moorhouse, Catherine Stahl, Caroline Wood, Nancy Wiseman and Myra Eels, commemorating the 91st anniversary of the 19th amendment, guaranteeing American women's right to vote
Liz George & women of the Living History Company including Barbara Clark, Judith Fortney, Deanna Underwood, Lois Han,
Vi Jones, Barbara Daniel, Jill Zagelow & Chloe Kohler, Stella Gryler, Kathy Miller,
Jill Emigh, Cleo Forgey, Elaine Derby, Harriett Beach and Barbara Coddington.
Aug. 27

J.B.A. Brouillet, pioneer Catholic missionary

Jeannot Poirot

Aug. 28

Town Meeting: 175th anniversary of the arrival of Marcus & Narcissa Whitman

E.B. Whitman, (a relative of Marcus Whitman) & friends

Sept. 4

Cpl. Phillip Murphy, Fort Walla Walla soldier

Greg Hodgen

Sept. 11
Alonzo T. & Francis P. Jones,
soldier & evangelist
Alex & Heather Salzman
Sept. 18
Town Meeting: 155th anniversary of of the second Treaty of Walla Walla council & Stevens skirmish
The Full Company
Sept. 25
Caroline M. Woods and Augusta Moorhouse, SDA pioneers & the life of Ellen White

Elaine Derby & Cleo Forgey

Oct. 2

Frank Orselli & Pasquale Saturno, Italian farmers and  immigrants 

David Venneri
& Doug Saturno

Oct. 9
Robert Wolf, Walla Walla's first professional fireman & chief

City of Walla Walla Firemen Jason Strang
& Jeff Harwood

Oct. 16

Yuso Shinbo, Japanese immigrant & restaurateur

Art Shinbo

Oct. 23

Mother Joseph of the Sisters of Providence, builder of institutions

Kathy Miller

Oct. 30

A 19th Century Party a discussion of what the town should do in the face of changing demographics
The Full Company

NOTE: All performers are volunteers.
Programs subject to change without notice. 
Call ahead to confirm appearances.

Interested in participating?
There are many characters ... men, women, and children ...
of the Walla Walla region's past whose stories currently go untold.
Join the fun and contribute to heritage,
committing to only a few hours each season.
Call (509) 525-7703 or email info@fortwallawallamuseum.org
for more information.
Musicians interested in playing popular 19th century music with
The Oregon Trail Band are also encouraged to contact the Museum

Some members of the Living History Company are available for off-site presentations for a nominal fee (which helps to secure props, equipment and clothing for the Company). Contact the Museum at (509) 525-7703 or info@fortwallawallamuseum.org.for more information.

Opportunities are available to support the Living History Company and many other facets of the Museum. You can help present the past to future generations by clicking DONATE NOW and specifying your area of interest. For more information contact the Museum
at (509) 525-7703 or email info@fortwallawallamuseum.org.

discovering, preserving and sharing
Walla Walla regional heritage
 

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