Reaching Out

We're doing a lot of outreach these days. Sometimes that happens here at Fort Walla Walla Museum with an off-season tour permitted for a group of folks from the Boise area last Friday who would not otherwise be able to conveniently see the Museum (the young woman above is 17-year old Sierra from the Boise 'VW Things' group). At other times, Museum staff and volunteers go into the community to make contact with groups seeking entertanment through our Living History Company. Barbara portrayed Walla Walla's first professional school marm Sarah Miner at the VA yesterday (That's her, seated at the Museum's Union Schoolhouse). Today, we host our annual volunteer meeting on the grounds (the other pic is from such a meeting a few years ago)and this afternoon the Director and I will give a short presentation to the residents at Garrison Creek Lodge, our neighbor around the corner on The Dalles Military Road.

In the course of a year, we do a lot of this sort of thing. Museum staff and volunteers represent the Museum in a wide variety of ways and places. Don sits with the City's Parks and Rec Advisory Board and serves as a Chamber of Commerce Ambassador, Carolyn is the Secretary/Treasurer for the Columbia County Cemetery Association (there's quite a few historic cemeteries in that county), and I sit on the Union-Bulletin's Community Board. James, the Director, is on quite a few Boards, including Tourism Walla Walla, the School Boundary Task Force, the Historical Advisory Board, and a bunch of others.

We like to give back to the community that supports us so strongly and it helps when we can answer invidiuals' questions about what's going on at the Museum ... not everything gets into the news. If you have a question, stop in to see us or call 509.525.7703. You can email us at info@fortwallawallamuseum.org, too.