Browsed by
Tag: Wenatchee

Washington State Library launching grant-funded STEM program

Washington State Library launching grant-funded STEM program

In fall 2017, the Washington State Library teamed up with the Imagine Children’s Museum of Everett, School’s Out Washington and the Spokane County Library District for a grant application to fund a program to promote literacy-based STEM activities for children ages 3 to 10 and their families. The application was successful. This STEM program stood out from many others because the program begins the exploration of scientific concepts through sharing a children’s book. Few other STEM programs, if any, are literacy-based….

Read More Read More

From the Digital Archives: 1909 Washington highway map

From the Digital Archives: 1909 Washington highway map

Nowadays, when we look at a highway map of Washington, we see a complex web of gold, red and black lines crisscrossing the state. But it wasn’t always this way. In the early 1900s, highways were a rarity in the Evergreen State. Probably because cars and trucks were rarities as well, considering that the automobile had just been invented. This 1909 map displays Washington’s located and proposed highways, railroads (the dominant form of transportation then) and county seats. The map…

Read More Read More

Secretary Wyman visits wintry Wenatchee

Secretary Wyman visits wintry Wenatchee

Secretary Wyman with Wenatchee World Chairman Emeritus Wilfred Woods. (Photos courtesy of Stephanie Horn) From time to time, Secretary of State Wyman leaves Olympia to visit other parts of Washington and meet with the locals and discuss what our office is up to nowadays. The Secretary drove over the snowy Cascades to Wenatchee Tuesday for an overnight stay. She began her visit there with a noontime speech to the local Kiwanis Club, followed by an editorial board meeting at the…

Read More Read More

A Snapshot of Chelan County

A Snapshot of Chelan County

Chelan is third in a series covering Washington’s 39 counties, including how they got their names. ————————————— If you look at a map of Washington, you’ll notice a long body of water gently winding across the northern Cascades. This blue swath is not a river, but Lake Chelan, a long, narrow lake that is a scenic icon that draws tourists to the fourth county in our snapshot series, Chelan County. Chelan is named after the 55-mile-long lake that snakes near its…

Read More Read More

A Monument for Melody Choir and Hobo the Dog

A Monument for Melody Choir and Hobo the Dog

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: This item on page 1 of the Jan. 17, 1907 issue of the Seattle Daily News caught my eye due to the use of the words “eccentric,” “peculiar,” and the mention of a $100,000 monument for a man and his dog: CLAIMS TO BE CHOIR’S WIDOW Latest Claimants for Estate of Dead Man Declare His Name Was Joseph Calentine “That Melody Choir, alias Joseph Melchoir…

Read More Read More

5th Grader Raises Money for School Library

5th Grader Raises Money for School Library

And it wasn’t even his OWN library! Ten-year-old Niv Bhide heard that another school in town didn’t have some of the advantages that his school does. The other school doesn’t have a Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA) to sponsor events like the Scholastic book fairs that he enjoyed at his own school. So he and his mother wrote about 20 letters to folks they know in the community, thinking they might raise $100 or so for the library. Instead, the…

Read More Read More

Newspapers in the Library

Newspapers in the Library

I recently did a post on the loss of the “Spokesman Review”, however, I am happy to report that we still have many newspapers in the library to provide a touch of home for our patrons. As newspapers can be very expensive we cannot purchase all of them that are published in Washington, but we do our best. To that end we carry the larger metropolitan areas (excluding Spokane). This includes Olympia, Seattle, Yakima, Tri-Cities, Everett, Tacoma, Wenatchee, Vancouver, and…

Read More Read More