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Living History Company Performances

A photo session is scheduled for March 28 at 2:00 pm in the new Entrance Building Conference Room to take group & Individual pictures for the 2010 season. Living History Company members should arrive in costume; those participating in the 3:00 - 5:00 'appreciation event' may leave when their shoot is completed.

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 Operations Manager Don Locati at 525-7703.



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 2010 Living History Schedule:
performances at 2:00 pm each Sunday
plus Saturdays, June through August
Enjoy 19th century popular music from the Museum's own
Oregon Trail Band
every first & third Sunday of each month!

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

Date

Historical Figures & Presentations

Historical Interpreters

April 4

John Colter, Lewis & Clark expedition member

Paul Franzmann

April 11

Joseph Meek, mountain man & U.S. Marshal

Mike Bates

April 18

Sigmond Schwabacher, Jewish merchant & immigrant

Steve Rubin

April 25
Open House/Ice Cream Social Dr. Dorsey S. Baker, pioneer merchant, banker,& railroad builder
Ron Klicker
May 2

Nancy Wiseman, pioneer woman

Harriet Hart Beach

May 9

Charles Tung, Chinese merchant & interpreter

Galen Tom

May 16
J.B.A. Brouillet, pioneer Catholic missionary
Jeannot Poirot
May 23

Col. Michael McCarthy, soldier & militiaman

Bob Bennett

May 30 Rev. Cushing & Myra Eels,
Protestant missionaries
Rogers Miles
& Barbara Coddington
June 5
Charlie Phillips Dick Phillips
June 6

John & Catherine Stahl, brewmasters

David & Jill Emigh

June 12

Fort Walla Walla Days and Western Art Show

19th century historical interpreters and more
June 13
Fort Walla Walla Days and Western Art Show
19th century historical interpreters and more
June 19

Burlingame Ditch developers Ed & Elizabeth Burlingame
Sam Black, Hudson's Bay Company man

Tom Williams & Jill Zagelow

Tom Williams

June 20

Woods, Moorhouse, Nichols & Miller, Seventh Day Adventist pioneers

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

June 26

Suzanne Cayouse Dauphin, American Indian wife

Judith Fortney

June 27

Fred Stine, blacksmith & builder

Charles Saranto

July 3
Annie Mix, New Orleans lady Deana Underwood
July 4
TBA TBA
July 10

John Singleton, Fort Walla Walla soldier & musician

Joel Fitts
July 11

Andrew Dominique Pambrun, Hudson's Bay Company trader & adventurer

Sam Pambrun

July 17
William McBean, Hudson's Bay Company trader
WW Small Business Center Director
July 18
Yuso Shinbo, Japanese immigrant & restaurateur

Art Shinbo

July 24

John Abbott, stage coach operator & miner

Rod Hahn

July 25

Josephine Wolfe, pioneer madame

Lois Hahn

July 31

Sarah Miner, Pioneer School Teacher

Barbara Daniel  

August 1 E.B. Whitman, Walla Walla's first elected Mayor Dan Clark
August 7

Maria Greenwood Whitman, homemaker who sings songs of her time

Barbara Clark

August 8
Fr. Eugene Chirouse, Catholic missionary Jean-Paul Grimaud
August 14

TBA

Mike Spiess

August 15 

Carline M. Woods and Augusta Moorhouse, SDA pioneers & the life of Ellen White Elaine Derby & Cleo Forgey

August 21

Lucie Fulton Isaacs, patron of the arts and suffragist

Liz George

August 22
Women's History Celebration with Lucie Isaacs & Women of Walla Walla including Maria Whitman, Suzanne Cayouse Dauphin, 'Dutch Jo' Wolfe, Martha Roberts, and Myra Eels, commemorating the 90th anniversary of the
19th amendment, guaranteeing American women's right to vote
Liz George & women of the Living History Company
August 28 Lt. John Mullan, road builder Ron Klicker
August 29

Frenchtown Rendezvous with Suzanne Cayouse Dauphin, Andrew Pambrun, William McBean, Father J.B.A. Brouillet and Father Eugene Chirouse.

Judith Fortney, Sam Pambrun, Rich Monacelli, Jeannot Poirot, and Jean-Paul Grimaud

Sept. 5

James McAuliff, merchant, musician, & mayor

Clark Colahan

Sept. 12
Outlaw Ferd Patterson & Sheriff James McAuliff Robert Armstrong
& Clark Colohan
Sept. 19
A.P Woodward
J.R. Lieuallen
Sept. 26
Mother Joseph of the Sisters of Providence, builder of institutions

Diane Kaye

October 3

Frank Orselli & Pasquale Saturno, Italian farmers and  immigrants 

David Venneri & Doug Saturno

October 10
Francesco Leonetti, early winermaker
Rusty Figgins
October 17

Robert Wolf, Walla Walla's first professional fireman & chief

Greg Van Donge

October 24 TBA Dan Clark & Clark Colohan

October 31

 A 19th Century Party a discussion of what the town should do in the face of changing demographics
The Full Company
page updated February 4, 2010

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.

preserving and sharing Walla Walla regional heritage
 

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