December 7, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life
Walter R. Dry spent his entire life educating blind students in two states. Rising from an able instructor at the Washington State School for the Blind to the superintendent of… Read story
November 30, 2024, 6:14am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
Whose “civilization” is it, anyway? Read story
December 6, 2024, 6:00am Clark County Life
A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story
November 30, 2024, 6:10am Clark County Life
Mayor John Kiggins previewed a controversial play in January 1911 along with law officers. He excluded a Columbian reporter from the preview, claiming he wanted no publicity. Read story
November 29, 2024, 6:10am Business
It was probably Clark County’s most popular golf course. And the hamburgers were pretty great, too. Read story
November 29, 2024, 5:47am Clark County Life
A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story
November 28, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
Ninety-seven years ago, as World War I waged in Europe, soldiers at Vancouver Barracks answered a much more festive call. They reported for dinner. Read story
November 23, 2024, 6:10am Clark County Life
History forgets how often our neighbors were involved in shaping it, even in small ways. During the 18 months that Brig. Gen. George Marshall commanded the U.S. Army’s Vancouver Barracks, Clark County residents were in daily contact with him and his wife, Katherine. Through their sharing of oral histories, we… Read story
November 22, 2024, 5:00am Clark County Life
A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story
November 16, 2024, 6:10am Clark County Life
Hollywood’s Wild West myth never fit Clark County. Setting aside Saturday night bar fights and a man stabbed to death in a saloon, our local history lists no reports of quick-draw shootouts on any county streets. Still, residents romanticized the West. Youths read dime novels about frontiersmen adventurers, like Buffalo… Read story
