Ever been to the Eastern Washington Agricultural Museum in Pomeroy, Garfield County, Washington? Might be worth the effort!

My newspaper here in Spokane, The Spokesman Review, recently had a nice spotlight on this museum. Now to learn more about the museum and it’s focus and collections, click to www.co.garfield.wa.us/museum/home

What I wanted to share with you today were some thoughts from Jay Franks, a board member of the museum. He was saying that he “hopes the museum will help preserve the mostly oral history of what life was life on the region’s early wheat farms before that generation farms out.”

Franks continued, and this is my point: “Interest in the displays is greater among older people who remember using butter churns and sewing clothes by hand at home. As the generations thins out, the people go through faster.” 

Now isn’t this sadly the truth? The older ones remember using “that.” The middle-younger ones remember Grandma using “that.” The youngest ones ask “what is that?”

Learning history takes time whether it be reading or visiting a museum.