Kids can explore the web of life from 9 a.m. to noon, March 31-April 3 at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center. Visiting experts and museum staff lead this…

Cashmere was still Old Mission and Chelan County was yet to be named when Dora Tibbits and her husband Milton carved a living from their Dryden homestead in the early…

“Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work,” was the mantra of railroad magnate James J. Hill. A hands-on detailed obsessed manager, Hill refused to believe the arid lands…

Wenatchee First Citizen John A. Gellatly found plenty to cut his political teeth on during the rough-and-tumble Wild West era of the Apple Capital’s past. By 1909, Gellatly had succeeded…

Before he became Wenatchee’s “Man of Steel,” industry builder and pioneer E.T. Pybus established a thriving blacksmith shop in a booming farm community. The shop quickly morphed from village blacksmith…

Cleveland mail-order bride Nellie Cox Davies didn’t have much time to have cold feet when she got off the train at Wenatchee to meet her betrothed in 1907. Two hours…

My father, Cecil Piper, born in 1899 in Black Diamond, Kansas was full of stories of his life and times. I could never get enough of them. I am sorry…

Cold and hungry, frigidly squatting under cover thousands of miles from home: that is how many brave Americans spent their time in enemy territory, fighting wars they had not started but could not prevent being swept up in. Beginning Nov. 1 come explore the stories of some this community’s veterans at the Wenatchee Museum and Cultural Center.

More than 600 fifth-graders, about three classrooms a day, have been working with sculpture Kevin Pettelle as part of the Beauty of Bronze program to learn about the art of bronze sculptures.

One of the most interesting things to me about museum work is its constant blend of intellectual work with physical labor. There’s the conceptual work of creating new exhibits with…