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Skewered Apple BBQ Championship, page 2 • Quasquicentennnial, page 3 • Let's Read, page 7 Kim's Victorian Teas, page 8 • Hear My Voice: Win the Vote, page 9 • Annual Fund, page 10

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Cover photos: Peggy Ludwick and Corky Mattingly dressed as suffragists for the opening of the Women's Votes, Women's Voices exhibit. Below: Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Prepare your taste buds for some barbecue! This September, Tree Top will sponsor a first for the Valley, the Skewered Apple BBQ Championship. To be held on Front Street, this event will be an open national competition with $35,000 in prize money. You will be able to purchase scrip to exchange for tastes of meats, vegetables, desserts, and other goodies prepared by the contestants. You can also enjoy the beer and wine garden, watch cooking demonstrations, and listen to live music. The Skewered Apple BBQ Championship is sanctioned by the Pacific Northwest Barbecue Association, and proceeds from the event benefit the Yakima Valley Museum.

To help prepare for the Championship, a barbecue cooking class will be held by the Grand Champion Pitmasters of the Pacific Northwest at the Yakima Valley Museum on Saturday, April 24. Class participants will learn how to prepare, cook, and present the four types of meat used in the competition: beef brisket, pork butt, chicken, and pork ribs. Beef tri-tip will also be covered in the class. Additional class topics will include basic barbecue equipment, barbecue theory, meat selection, wood selection, theory and practice of rub, and sauce

Get Prepared for Some Good "Q"making and presentation. All meat, rub materials, wood, and charcoal will be furnished.

If you love barbecue but don’t want to enter the cooking competition, here is your chance to become a certified barbecue judge and taste some of the best barbecue in the world. The PNWBA will hold a barbecue judging class in conjunction with the cooking class. The meats prepared by the student cooks will be evaluated by the student judges, and winners will receive ribbons!

For more information about the cooking and judging classes, and to download application forms, log on to the competition’s website, skeweredapple.com

Performers Nancy Stewart and MaryLee Sunseri return to the Yakima Valley Museum in June to sing songs and tell stories that help students learn about light. The Yakima Valley is famous for its 300 days of sunshine each year, so light is a perfect subject for a program at the museum—and Wonders of Light was very popular when we presented it for the first time last year. Children learn about all aspects of light, including natural and artificial light, during our Annual Rotary Storyfest. Nancy and MaryLee’s repertoire for the program includes traditional songs as well as many written specifically for this venue.

Nancy Stewart and MaryLee Sunseri have made three albums together: Singin’ Sidesaddle, Good Night, Sleep Tight, and Rhythm of the Rocks, which won the American Library Association Notable Children’s Recording and Parents’ Choice Honors.

Wonders of Light is a program of storytelling and music designed for students that helps fulfill the Museum’s education mission. Performances for classrooms are scheduled for Wednesday, June 2nd through Friday, June 4th in the museum’s Great Hall. School groups can reserve a spot during the day by contacting Kathy

Sample in the Education Department at (509)248-0747, Tuesday-Friday. Seating is limited and fills up quickly, so we encourage you to call early to make your reservation.

Children and their families are invited to a special public performance on Friday evening at 7:00pm. Reservations are not needed for the Friday evening performance.

A special Thank You goes to the Yakima Sunrise Rotary Club; because of their continued sponsorship of Wonders of Light, all performances are free.

The Wonders of Light

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Before you Google it, we’ll go ahead and tell you that “quasquicentennial” is another way of saying “the 125th anniversary.” In 2010, we celebrate the 125th anniversary of the founding of Yakima, and that milestone was chosen as the theme for this year’s Gourmet Dinner. Decorations included period costumes made for Yakima’s Golden Jubilee and Yakima Centennial celebrations. In keeping with our tradition, museum Board members were waiters for the evening. Guests enjoyed tasty courses prepared by the chefs from Geppetto’s Italian Bistro, Birchfield Manor, Santiago’s, Gasperetti’s, Tony’s Steak House, and Café Melange.

The history of Yakima began on January 14, 1885 with the dedication of a new Northern Pacific Railroad depot here. Plats were then filed for the new town—called North Yakima, to distinguish it from Yakima City (now called Union Gap)—and the railroad offered free lots to anyone in Yakima City willing to relocate there by May 1, 1885. Later that year, the railroad agreed to pay the cost of moving businesses—buildings and all!—from Yakima City to North Yakima. This move was not without its controversy, but many individuals and business took the Northern Pacific’s offer, and by the end of 1885, the population of North Yakima had swelled to 1,200. In 1910, North Yakima celebrated the 25th anniversary of this move, and the founding of the town, with a Silver Jubilee; by the time of its Golden Jubilee in 1935, “North” had been dropped and the city renamed simply Yakima. In 1960, the

(From left) Betty Strand (sitting), Nancy Rossmeissl, Lois Menard, Curtis Sundquist, Juana Rezaie, Sharon Miracle, Tap Menard, Paul Schafer, Bertha Ortega, Laura Muehleck, Akbar Rezaie (sitting), Christina Muehleck, and Steve Muehleck

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city celebrated with a Diamond Jubilee. To continue this tradition of celebration, the museum

has installed a display of artifacts from all three jubilees, and hung a street-style banner across the lobby. Visitors to the museum can watch a movie of the 1935 Golden Jubilee parade down Yakima Avenue on the lobby view screen. The Yakima Historical Society is offering programs about the founding of Yakima; you can find information about them on our website. Also, keep an eye out for the special quasquicentennial celebration publication which will be published by the Yakima Herald-Republic. You may just learn to say it three times fast with no problem.

Traveling with the Museum in 2010 has already commenced—a six-day tour to San Diego the first week of March combined the traditional fine weather we always seem to secure, visits to museums in Balboa Park, seeing the most adorable baby panda at the San Diego Zoo, and deciding which of the fine seafront homes in La Jolla we should pool our entire resources to rent for a week. And the best part is that everyone returned still speaking to one another.

Subsequent trips this year will probably stay on the North American continent unless there is a group clamoring for a camel safari through the Gobi Desert (or someplace else

equally exotic). Requests have been made for a return to Michoacan, Mexico over Day of the Dead (it will be as safe there as anywhere since we have local friends to keep us in line), a return to Washington, D.C. in the early fall for those who could not go last year, and possibly a junket to San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country in the late Fall.

If any of these three trips pique your interest, please let John Baule know as soon as possible. Information on when and where and responses from you will allow him to then complete the arrangements and secure exact dates. Call 509-248-0747, e-mail [email protected] or write to 2105 Tieton Drive, Yakima, WA 98902

Where (in the world) will John go?


ON EXHIBITSON EXHIBITSBy Andy Granitto, Curator of ExhibitionsBy Andy Granitto, Curator of Exhibitions

100 Years of Women’s Votes in Washington in 2010

The Seattle Sunday Times featured some of the leading suffragists who arrived in Seattle aboard the Northern Pacific “Suffrage Special” on June 29, 1909.

The year 2010—this year—marks the 100th anniversary of women’s voting rights in Washington State. The story of Washington State’s role in securing voting rights for American women is told in the special exhibition Women’s Votes, Women’s Voices, produced by the Washington State Historical Society, the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, and the Washington Women’s History Consortium. This major exhibition is on view at the Yakima Valley Museum for the next three months.

Perhaps the most enlightening part of the story is the leadership role that Washington played in this progressive movement. As explained by Shanna Stevenson, author of the book Women's Votes, Women’s Voices, a similar exhibition commemorating the national anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020 is being developed for the Smithsonian, and its story will begin with the 1913 pro-suffrage parade in Washington D.C., an event that occurred three years after women had gained the right to vote in Washington State.

Another interesting fact illustrated in the exhibit is that the Women’s Suffrage movement in Washington State was very much a “modern” twentieth-century campaign for public opinion. In stark contrast to earlier women’s movements in the east, which were often marked by civil disobedience and other “radical” actions, the campaign in Washington State was, in the words of Stevenson, “a modern media campaign”—“a strategically organized, grassroots campaign fueled by

Progressive Era sensibilities.” After all, since only men were allowed to vote, it was men who needed to be convinced, and the Washington State suffragists used everything from cookbooks and pies to a mountaineering expedition on Mount Rainier in the effort to present their case for equality.

Indeed, it was the new self-reliant women of the west who scored the first “wins” in the suffrage movement—the first five states to grant voting rights to women were Wyoming in 1890, Colorado in 1893, Utah and Idaho in 1896, and then Washington in 1910. The movement in Washington represented a re-kindling of the flame after a 14-year hiatus, and it started a women’s suffrage wildfire that would sweep the country, from west to east.

The exhibition features posters, flyers, and other printed material that display the savvy media strategy of the campaign in Washington. Clothing and artifacts from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and other major figures from the early Women’s Suffrage movement are also on exhibit, along with items from more recent women of note, like astronaut and Yakima Valley native Bonnie Dunbar. These latter-day “women making a difference” extend the exhibit’s story to the present day, with examples of women who “broke through the glass ceiling” in sports, politics, and business.

This exhibit, like the women’s movement itself, is complex and multi-faceted. It presents the many characters and subplots of the movement in a single, unified story. In fact, the way we have installed the exhibit here in Yakima makes it more “readable” than it was in the previous installations in Tacoma and Wenatchee. At the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma, the exhibit was located in a large open gallery with a


April 29, Thursday, 3—5pm YVCC Diversity Series: Suffragist Movement and Latina Progress in the Yakima Valley CWU in Ellensburg • 509-574-6800 x3151 A panel discussion on the quality of life for Latinas in the Yakima Valley presented by Yakima Valley Chicana/Latina professionals. Free

MAY May 4, Tuesday, Noon-1:30pm YWCA Leadership Luncheon: Sheryl WuDunn “Overcoming Hardships and the Empowerment of Women” Yakima Valley Convention Center • 509-248-7796

Sheryl WuDunn, a Pulitzer Prize winner for journalism, speaks on why society should continue to support the empowerment of women and how this helps our society prosper. $75

May 6, Thursday, 7—9pm YVCC Diversity Series: Suffragist Movement and Latina Progress in Yakima Valley YVCC campus • 509-574-6800 x3151 A panel discussion on the quality of life for Latinas in the Yakima Valley presented by Yakima Valley Chicana/Latina professionals. Free

Fall 2010September 22 & October 27, Wednesdays, 6-8pm

Ready by Five's Creative Families Play & Learn: Voting and Elections! Adams Elementary Old Gym • 509-853-2052Concepts of voting and elections incorporated into arts and crafts, science and language activities that are easy to replicate at home and help children get ready for school. Birth—age 5, with Adult. Free

APRIL April 7, Wednesday, 7—8pm YVCC Diversity Series: Teatro Chicana Kendall Auditorium, YVCC Campus • 509-574-6800 x3151 Chicana Theatre Women’s Troupe addresses social, gender and political issues of the working class and Chicano Movement. Free April 8, Thursday, 7pm Salt of the Earth: Film Viewing and Discussion Yakima Valley Museum • 509-248-0747 A showing of the short but intense film “Salt of the Earth”, with discussion by Nancy Rawles, Shanna Stevenson, Maria Cuevas, and Dr. Carli Schiffner to follow. Free April 11, Sunday, 1pm Voices: Hear My Voice: Win the Vote Yakima Valley Museum • 509-248-0747 The final battle for women’s voting rights is experienced in this exciting multi-media program by Living Voices. Part of the Voices series. Voices is a cooperative program between the Yakima Valley Museum and Allied Arts that presents lecturers and performers addressing topics of interest to the community. Free April 21, Wednesday, Time varies by location Bold Spirit, Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America Reading by Author Linda Hunt. 9:30—10:30am YVCC Campus • 509-249-9002 7—8:30pm Yakima Valley Museum Author Linda Lawrence Hunt will share the true story of feminist suffragette Helga Estby’s journey across the United States. Sponsored by Yakima Valley Libraries. Free

Yakima’s own Karen Troianello is featured in Women’s Votes, Women’s Voices as a “Woman Making A Difference.” In 1979 she was Karen Blair, lead plaintiff in the landmark case Blair v. Washington State University, in which she sought equal funding for women’s college athletics under the state’s Title IX law of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The suit was lost at first but was won on appeal in 1987, when the State Supreme Court ruled in favor of Blair and her fellow plaintiffs.

For the exhibit’s installation in Yakima, we have added Karen’s original WSU letter jacket, track shoes, and legal papers related to Blair v WSU.

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high ceiling, and its components were placed like islands in this vast space. In contrast, when it traveled to the Wenatchee Valley Museum, the 2,000 square foot exhibit needed to be divided into sections and distributed between three different areas in the museum building. Here in Yakima, its placement in our Gilbert and Sundquist Family Galleries allows the visitor to follow the exhibit story by moving through the intimate and meandering gallery space,

which lends itself to the sequence of exhibit sections and components. We even had room to add a few stories and artifacts of local interest, related to the fight for women’s rights here in the Yakima Valley.

Stop by the museum and see Women’s Votes, Women’s Voices, attend the related public programs (see below), and help celebrate the hundredth anniversary of women’s suffrage in Washington State.


in Keymar, Maryland and distributed them through sales representatives and advertisements. Mehring machines, the first to gain acceptance by the dairy industry, were still being sold as late as 1925.

The Smithsonian’s National History museum has three Mehring milking machines in its collections. The Van Dusen machine has been displayed at the Clymer Museum and the Central Washington State Fair for a number of years. And now Margery Van Dusen Skeen, granddaughter of Simeon and Lattie Van Dusen, has allowed the Yakima Valley Museum to borrow this amazing piece of American ingenuity and we hope to have it on display soon.

By Mike Siebol, Curator of Collections

Simeon Delos and Lattie Lodema Van Dusen moved to Yakima from Pine Island, Minnesota in 1904. Her father, Harrison Arthur Irish, gave them five acres of land on what is now South 56th Avenue between Summitview and Tieton. They grew apples, cherries, and pears. They also had some milk cows, and one day a traveling salesman came by the ranch selling the W.M. Mehring foot-powered milking machine. The salesman left it for them to try, saying he would come back to see whether the Van Dusens wanted to purchase this wonderful invention.

Simeon attached the machine to the first cow. It must have pinched her, because the cow kicked—and that was enough for Simeon. As far as he was concerned, the W.M. Mehring foot-powered milking machine trial was over. He stored it in the barn’s rafters to wait for the salesman’s return.

But the salesman never did come back to pick up the milking machine. It stayed in the barn until it was given to Margery Van Dusen Skeen in 1986 by her aunt Ella Lodema Ferris, when she left the farm and distributed everything there among family members.

The milking machine was not a new invention when Simeon Van Dusen tried one. The first vacuum milking machine was patented in 1856 by L.O. Colvin. William M. Mehring (of Van Dusen’s “foot-powered milking machine”) patented “cow milkers” in 1892, 1896, 1899, 1905, and 1908. This particular model is designed to milk two cows at the same time. The operator would sit on the seat and pump the pedals to create suction to milk the cows. Mehring made his cow milking machines

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It has been 100 years since women from all walks of life came together to gain the right to vote in Washington State. Their story is told in the special exhibit Women’s Votes, Women’s Voices, now on display at the Yakima Valley Museum. Through artifacts, interactive kiosks, oral histories, and an activity book, your class will learn how women won the right to vote—and used their votes to influence history. Visit yakimavalleymuseum.org and stories.washingtonhistory.org/suffrage/ on the web for more information, and curriculum that complements the exhibition.

School Tours of Women’s Votes, Women’s VoicesTo schedule a tour of Women’s Votes, Women’s Voices,

contact Kathy Sample, Educational Program Coordinator, at (509)248-0747. Tours are available Monday through Friday, any time between 9:30am and 4:00pm. Admission for tours is $1.50 per student (there is no charge for teachers or chaperones), with a $20.00 minimum charge. If your school is part of the Yakima School District and you need financial assistance for your students to attend this exhibition, you are invited to apply for a grant from the Yakima Schools Foundation. Please visit www.yakimaschoolsfoundation.org to download an application.


On February 10, Circle of Success held their first program in the Children’s Underground. Circle of Success is an early education program whose goal is to improve the school-readiness of preschool children. Originally located in the former YWCA building, Circle of Success has now become part of Catholic Family & Child Services. As part of this change, Program Director Nancy Leahy contacted the Yakima Valley Museum to discuss a new location for the Imagination Library Story Hour, part of their Let’s Read, Imagination Library program. Already promoting reading with its Bill’s Clubhouse book area, the Children’s Underground was the perfect spot for the story hour.

So, beginning with the February 10 program, Circle of Success will present Let’s Read in the Underground on the second Wednesday of every month. This is a free program, and consists of two reading hours, an English hour at 10:00am and a Spanish hour at 12:00pm. Anyone can attend either hour. A small, healthy snack is provided at each session. The next Let’s Read story hour will be on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 in the Children’s Underground.

By Kathy Sample, Educational Program Coordinator

Imagination Library Story Hour moves to the Children’s Underground

Along with the story hour, children are encouraged to enjoy hands-on play, learn about Yakima’s history, and explore in the Children’s Underground.

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Spring has come to the H. M. Gilbert Homeplace, and the garden club is gearing up for some major yard work. If you are interested in being part of the garden crew, please contact Kathy Sample at the museum. We would love to have you; remember, when it comes to yard work, the more hands the merrier!

Tour season is upon us, and there are quite a few excited school children ready to visit Gilbert House. We are always on the lookout for people with an interest in Yakima’s history and the desire to be a volunteer guide for school tours. No experience is required, we’ll teach you about the history of the Gilberts and their Homeplace, and you can share it with eager students. For more information, call Kathy Sample at the museum, (509) 248-0747.

It is spring again, and time for our new annual Easter

egg hunt. This year’s hunt will be on Saturday, April 3rd. Everyone will have a chance to dye eggs before the egg hunt, as well as during the event. This year, there will be staggered starting times, according to age:

10:00am 0 to 5 years old 10:30am 6 to 9 years old 11:00am 10 to 12 years oldSo mark it on your calendar, and plan to spend a spring

morning on the Gilbert House lawn! Free; donations welcome.


Remember those lazy summer days and tea parties in the backyard? Teddy bears and dolls all dressed up. Cookies on a plate in the middle of the table, and at each place a small tea cup ready to be filled. Tea parties and imagination go hand in hand, but tea parties also bring a sense of elegance. Sipping your tea with your pinky held in the air. Tea parties give a sense of an era gone by.This summer, tea parties are coming to the Yakima Valley

Museum. We would like to invite you to join us for Kim’s Victorian Teas and Ice Cream Social, held in memory of Bill Donelson Robertson. There will be a total of three afternoons when you can come for an art project, stories, and a spot of tea with your family. The Yakima Valley Museum and the Yakima Association of Family and Consumer Sciences will be hosting the events from 1:00-3:00pm. on the third Sunday of each summer month. Free with your paid admission to the museum.

Kim’s Victorian Teas and Ice Cream Social

June 20, 2010A Father’s Day Celebration

July 18, 2010 Ice Cream Social

August 15, 2010 Victorian High Tea

Visitors to the Yakima Valley Museum can now enjoy the new Visitor Theatre located in the "North Tower." This new area features a large-screen television which shows eight films from the museum's digital archives.

These films include A Land Called Yakima, produced around 1960; The Great Bank Robbery, a Yakima Little Theater Project filmed in 1950, and the Yakima Fire Department demonstrating at a fire convention in the 1930s.

Come in, relax, and enjoy a glimpse into the past.

Drawings from the "Kim" books by Bill Robertson


STEWARDSHIPThe Yakima Valley Museum has been a part of the community for over 50 years. It has become the guardian of the collective history of the Yakima Valley. And it is well-qualified for this responsibility; in 2005, the Yakima Valley Museum achieved accreditation by the AAM. Only about 775 museums nationwide have earned this status, and only a handful of them are located in Washington state.

PARTNERSHIPAs a member of the Yakima Valley Museum, you help make it possible to tell the varied and compelling stories of the history of the area through artifacts and memories. You also help us bring a fresh look at history and art through changing special exhibits and educational programs.

SUPPORTYour contribution helps provide the ongoing care required for the preservation of the Yakima Valley Museum’s collection of over 80,000 artifacts–a legacy of the rich heritage of the Yakima Valley. In addition, your support makes possible special events, lectures, school tours, and family programs, and furthers the museum’s mission of educating visitors about the Valley’s unique and diverse history. This is especially important because the museum receives no public tax support for its operations.

Membership Benefits:Unlimited free admission to the Yakima Valley Museum, •Children’s Underground, and H.M. Gilbert Homeplace for all people in the same household and their guestsInvitations to members-only events•A subscription to the • Yakima Valley Museum Newsletter10% discount in the Museum Shop •Advance notification of new exhibitions, concerts, special •events, and programsThe opportunity to become a museum volunteer or docent•One-time passes to participating regional children’s museums•Reciprocal benefits with • Time Travelers member museums nationwideVoting privileges at the museum’s annual meeting•

$40 FriendAll basic membership benefits•

$100 SponsorAll Friend level benefits PLUS:•Two free admission tickets to give away•

$250 PatronAll Sponsor level benefits, PLUS:•Four free admission tickets to give away•10% discount on the use of museum rentals•

$500 BenefactorAll Patron level benefits PLUS:•Six free admission tickets to give away•A gift membership at the Friend level for a recipient of •

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The Yakima Valley MuseumYour Place in HistoryHear My Voice: Win the Vote

Suffrage parade, New York City, May 6, 1912. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZC4-5585 DLC

On the afternoon of February 21, a full crowd greeted poets Terry Martin, Elizabeth Austen, and Christine Deavel for their poetry reading at Allied Arts Center. This amazing hour kicked off the 2010 Voices speaker series. Then on March 7, we welcomed Shanna Stevenson, Washington Women’s History Consortium Coordinator with the Washington State Historical Society, for her talk on Women’s Suffrage. She is the author of the companion book to the Women’s Votes, Women’s Voices exhibition, which will be at the museum through June 20. We were excited to welcome her, and to show her how good the exhibit looks here.

As we continue to celebrate the centennial of women’s suffrage in Washington State, we invite you to one more program in the Voices series:

Hear My Voice: Win the Vote 1:00pm at the Yakima Valley MuseumThe final battle for women’s voting rights is experienced in this exciting program by Living Voices. Living Voices uses a combination of theatre, video, and live interaction to create a high-impact experience allowing audiences to discover history’s relevance to their lives. In this presentation, we follow Jessie, the daughter of a political columnist from Tennessee, as she grows up in the early 1900s and is introduced to the suffrage movement by her great aunt Charlotte.

Voices is a cooperative program of the Yakima Valley Museum and Allied Arts that presents lecturers and performers addressing topics of interest to the community. Admission to all Voices programs is free and available to everyone.


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The 2010 Annual Fund drive is now underway and if you have not yet received an invitation to participate, yours is in the mail! The economy is not exactly rosy now and all of us have to assess how we use our discretionary funds, but hopefully you will consider making as generous a gift as possible to the Yakima Valley Museum for one or all of the following reasons:

The Museum houses, preserves, and displays the 1) objects and records that tell the story of the Yakima Valley’s history.The Museum is one of only three nationally-2) recognized, accredited museums in all of Eastern Washington—and one of only 800 in the entire country.The Museum is an essential part of the education of 3) our youth, and makes it possible for them to see real historic objects in person instead of just in pictures..The Museum hosts a wide variety of excellent special 4) exhibits, such as the recent Dick Elliott and Human Touch art exhibitions and the current one on the Women’s Suffrage movement in Washington State.The Museum is a great place to bring your out-of-5) town friends and relatives when they come to visit.

The Museum collections—especially the Native 6) American, archival, and textile collections–contain items of national significance.The Museum receives no city, county, state, or 7) federal operating support.The Museum, therefore, depends on the 8) contributions of its members and supporters for the funds to continue its operations.

For these and many other reasons, please give as generously as you can.

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David Lynx, Associate Director Andrew Granitto, Curator of Exhibitions/Graphic Designer Mike Siebol, Curator of CollectionsSummer Hahn, Archivist/Research LibrarianDebbie Vlcek, Operations and Gift Shop Manager Katharyne Sample, Educational Program Coordinator Vicki Schluneger, Visitor ServicesMichael Murphy, Maintenance

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Through June 20, 2010: Washington State celebrates its centennial of permanent women's

suffrage in 2009-2010. The exhibit Women's Votes, Women's Voices highlights the history of the struggle to attain women's right to vote in Washington and illuminates how women's voting influenced territorial and state history. The exhibit is co-curated by the Washington State Historical Society, the Women's History Consortium, and the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture.

Opening July 9, 2010: Bicycle Eclectic – Adventure Cycling Association's national bicycle

touring portrait collection.

Events and Programs

March 26, 2010 (Friday) March Martini Madness – The Madness has returned! Buy your tickets now before this must-attend social is sold out! The "fun-raiser" is $50 per person. Your admission includes two masterfully mixed martinis and appetizers aplenty, and the no host bar is open all evening.

April 8, 2010 (Thursday) Salt of the Earth – A showing of the film Salt of the Earth. Nancy Rawles, Shanna Stevenson, Maria Cuevas, and Dr. Carli Schiffner will discuss how winning the vote was not the end of the struggle for women's rights. 7:00PM FREE

April 11, 2010 (Sunday) Voices: Hear My Voice: Win the Vote – The final battle for women's voting rights is experienced in this exciting program by Living Voices. 1:00PM. at the Yakima Valley Museum. FREE

April 14, 2010 (Wednesday) Circle of Success: Let's Read – Free preschool reading program in the Children's Underground. 10:00AM - English, 12:00PM. - Spanish.

April 24, 2010 (Saturday) Grand Champion Pitmasters of the Pacific Northwest: BBQ Cooking Class and Judging Class - For more information and application forms see skeweredapple.com.

June 4, 2010 (Friday) Wonders of Light - Nancy Stewart and MaryLee Sunseri return to the museum with a storytelling and song program called Wonders of Light, designed to help students learn about natural and artificial light. From starlight to sunlight, candelight to neon, light is part of our everyday lives. 7:00PM. FREE

June 20, 2010 (Sunday) Kim's Father's Day Celebration – An afternoon of stories, tea, and an art project in the Children's Underground 1:00-3:00PM.

July 18, 2010 (Sunday) Kim's Ice Cream Social – An afternoon of stories, ice cream, and an art project in the Children's Underground 1:00-3:00PM.

August 15, 2010 (Sunday) Kim's Victorian High Tea – An afternoon of stories, tea, and an art project in the Children's Underground 1:00-3:00PM.

September 11 & 12, 2010 (Saturday-Sunday) The Skewered Apple BBQ Championship – Hosted by Tree Top to benefit the Yakima Valley Museum. Open national competition with $35,000 in prize money. Beer and wine garden. Open to the public (entry fee). Purchase scrip and enjoy tastings of meats, veggies, desserts, and other goodies. Cooking demonstrations. Live music.

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Suffragist March

Walking w

est on Yakima Avenue past

Ditter Bros. (209-211 E. Yakim

a Ave), D

udley Shoe Co. (206 E Yakima), and

First National B

ank of Yakima (Corner

of S. 2nd) c. 1905.

Ron O

tt Collection

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