Photo caption: Children and a teacher play “two-by-two” outside the old Stevens School around 1910. Source: Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, #58-9-11. Written by Chris Rader Since early Colonial…

Photo caption: The Field Hotel in Stehekin was a destination resort from the 1890s until 1926, when it had to be dismantled prior to the raising of Lake Chelan’s water…

Photo Caption: A young man juggles and balances plates as he rides a unicycle on the tight wire in the late 1960s. Source: Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center #007-37-470…

Photo caption: The fire ignited in a barn behind Emil Frank’s Central Market on North Mission Street, and soon spread to nearby buildings. Source: Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center…

Written by Chris Rader The Wenatchee Valley is taking its place among the great wine-making regions of the world, with Washington second only to California in U.S. wine production and…

Source: Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center #58-9-3.80. Both Deaconess and St. Anthony’s Hospitals had fine nursing schools. During its 53 years of operation, the Deaconess school graduated more than…

Caption: This painting by the late Wenatchee artist Walter Graham depicts Chinese miners with a sluice box and pan, search­ing for gold on the Columbia River. The painting may be…

Written by Chris Rader Many in the Wenatchee Valley have heard of Parque Padrinos and the “two Teresas” who founded the organization six years ago. Teresa Zepeda Sosa is the…

Written by Chris Rader As Wenatchee’s first female physician, and the first to specialize in diseases of women and children, Dr. Minnie Simmons attracted a lot of mostly female patients…

Written by Chris Rader Few people, living or dead, could compete with Wenatchee’s Fred Collins at shining shoes. He asserted that he had shined and cleaned 1,500,000 shoes during his…