April 14, 2023, 5:03am 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
April 9, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life
Few now recall the poet Laurence Pratt who spent most of his life in and around Portland and Southwest Washington. A prolific writer, Pratt penned numerous poetry books and three partly autobiographical prose volumes about his experiences growing up and living in the area. He often contributed to the Oregonian’s… Read story
April 2, 2023, 6:00am Clark County Life
Writing with a quill pen, Meriwether Lewis entered in his journal on Feb. 24, 1806, that a Clatsop chief came to trade. The chief also brought some small fish that were running in the Columbia River tributaries. Lewis sketched the fish life-sized in his journal and made entries surrounding it.… Read story
April 1, 2023, 6:19pm Clark County News
The Fort Vancouver Visitor Center Annex Building was transformed Saturday into a reenactment of the barracks in 1933 that housed enrollees of the Civilian Conservation Corps in celebration of the organization’s 90th anniversary. Read story
March 31, 2023, 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
March 29, 2023, 6:48pm Clark County News
Patrick Locke knows the horrors of war. The Army veteran served two tours in Vietnam, during which he was shot three times. On Wednesday morning, he had one message for the Vietnam War veterans sitting in a room at Clark College: We are still healing. Read story
March 26, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life
Like its deeper, bigger cousin, the Pacific Ocean, shallow Vancouver Lake doesn’t give up dead airplanes easily. The depth of the Pacific embraces them, but the lake’s muck entombs them. Two fighter planes crashed into its silty water and disappeared. Neither flew from Pearson Field, but one was from the… Read story
March 22, 2023, 6:02am Clark County News
The Community Military Appreciation Committee is hosting an event on March 29 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Read story
