• What: The Fort Vancouver Tapestry.
• Where: Vancouver Community Library, 901 C. St., Columbia Room.
• When: Friday afternoon through Sunday, July 12. (The library is closed Saturday for the July 4 holiday.)
• Hours: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday through Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
• Tapestry spotlight: 6 p.m. Friday, July 10, stories behind the history depicted in the panels.
A summary of local history is coming to Vancouver Community Library, but don’t look for it on a bookshelf in the 900 section.
This reference work is a 108-foot-long example of textile art: the Fort Vancouver Tapestry.
The needle-and-thread project illustrates 77 chapters of Southwest Washington history and lore.
“Each panel details a certain place or event or person vital to the history of Clark County and Southwest Washington,” said Sherry Mowatt, the project’s artistic director.
• What: The Fort Vancouver Tapestry.
• Where: Vancouver Community Library, 901 C. St., Columbia Room.
• When: Friday afternoon through Sunday, July 12. (The library is closed Saturday for the July 4 holiday.)
• Hours: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday through Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
• Tapestry spotlight: 6 p.m. Friday, July 10, stories behind the history depicted in the panels.
The project started with a city grant in 1999, under the leadership of Eleanor van de Water. She died in 2005, the year the tapestry was finished.
The tapestry will be installed Friday afternoon in the ground-floor Columbia Room at the downtown library, 901 C St.
Like all libraries in the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District system, the downtown Vancouver branch will be closed Saturday in observance of the Fourth of July holiday, so people enjoying Independence Day in Vancouver’s historic core won’t be able to work in a library side trip to see the tapestry.
This will be the tapestry’s second consecutive summer appearance at the library, following several years of hibernation.
