Whitman County Heritage is live!

[caption id="attachment_67" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Dionne Quintuplets advertisement"][/caption] Whitman County Heritage is the latest collection in Washington Rural Heritage to go live. The Whitman County Heritage collection was created in conjunction with the Whitman County Library and the Washington State Library. It currently features items from the Tekoa Museum that highlight the history of Whitman County. Included in the collection are photographs from a collection of photo albums, personal histories, objects, and other ephemera. One of my favorite items in the collection is this ad for Dorsey Chevrolet that features the Dionne quintuplets. A strange example of their exploitation in the 1930s and 40s. In 1936 Quintland apparently "equalled the Niagara Falls as the biggest tourist attraction in Canada, rivalled in the United States by only Radion City, Gettysburg and Mount Vernon." To celebrate this new collection, the Whitman County Library and Tekoa museum have come together to provide an open house event at the Tekoa Museum in Whitman County. The open house is part of Tekoa’s Slippery Gulch celebration, an annual event celebrating Tekoa's rich and proud history. The event will begin at 8 a.m. on Saturday, June 21, with breakfast and followed by a parade, games and entertainment. For more information regarding the Whitman County Heritage collection, contact the Whitman County Library. For information about Washington Rural Heritage, contact Laura Robinson at the Washington State Library.


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