Monday, October 4, 2021

Rotary Club officials from Sasayama, Japan, visit Walla Walla to plant cherry tree in Pioneer Park, April 1979. Photos courtesy of Helen and Bob Adams.


Sister City program began in 1972

Sasayama Drive was named in 1972

Whitman biology professor Ted Anderson on right

Marjorie & Carroll Adams (right) hosted the Japanese visitors

Fort Walla Walla Museum tour



at the Walla Walla Airport terminal

 

Sunday, October 3, 2021

Flume, pipeline, and power plant on the South Fork of the Walla Walla River in 1929. Photos by the Hjalmer Poulsen family, courtesy of Patricia Poulsen Curley and Marcia Akes. Plus three additional photos courtesy of the Frazier Farmstead Museum.


Hjalmer Poulsen

Poulsen inside the pipeline



Chipping ice from pipe to prevent collapse





Hjalmer Poulsen


 

 

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