This past Saturday museum staff, volunteers and their families manned the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center booth at Wenatchee’s annual Taste of Harvest Festival downtown. The annual harvest festival is organized by the good people of the Wenatchee Downtown Association and during the day-long event the city shuts down part of Wenatchee Avenue and throngs…

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 to wagon and harrow repair, sheet metal fabrication and building parts for United States World War II military operations. “Pybus was the Steve Jobs of…