December 15, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Life
After years of aesthetic development and pandemic patience, Columbia Dance’s uniquely reimagined “Nutcracker” is ready for its holiday debut. This “Nutcracker” moves the classic Russian fairy tale to our own slice of the American frontier, recasting its characters as real historical inhabitants of Fort Vancouver in 1845. Read story
November 4, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Life
The 34th annual Lough Legacy Veterans Parade will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, 612 E. Reserve St., Vancouver. Read story
November 3, 2022, 6:05am Clark County News
The public is invited to engage in a free event leading up to Veterans Day about the South Vietnamese perspective of the Vietnam War. Read story
September 1, 2022, 5:12pm Clark County News
Despite living in the U.S. for decades, Victoria Prado was never recognized as a citizen. Read story
August 14, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life
Hudson’s Bay Company employees played cricket games at Fort Vancouver, but baseball wasn’t played in the area until after the Civil War. As base ball (two words) started congealing into one word (baseball) shortly before the Civil War, it popped up still as two words across the Pacific Northwest a… Read story
July 16, 2022, 3:46pm Clark County News
At the rear of the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site replica, underneath two green tents marked National Park Service, 20 children ages 8 to 12 knelt in the dirt next to five rectangular holes observed in the ground Saturday morning. Read story
July 5, 2022, 7:56pm Clark County News
More than 20 college students kneeled in the warm July heat, sifting through small square holes in the freshly dug ground on the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, searching for nails, ceramic remnants and other relics from the past. Read story
June 23, 2022, 6:00am Clark County News
A team of students from Portland State University and Washington State University, professional archaeologists and the National Park Service are set to study a former site of a school for Indigenous and Métis children at Fort Vancouver. Read story
May 10, 2022, 10:50am Clark County Life
A smaller, fireworks-free event at Fort Vancouver will replace the Independence Day fireworks extravaganza this summer after two years of cancellations due to the coronavirus pandemic. Read story
May 1, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life
Only a few visitors and scattered historical documents called the rough dwellings outside Fort Vancouver “Kanaka Village.” Instead, those living there in the Hudson’s Bay Company days called the grouping of houses “the village.” Read story