Here we are, opening for the summer, and we have something we’d like you to consider: The Creston Museum was opened by a group of very dedicated volunteers in 1982 – following a very long, exhausting, and often demoralising struggle …
And the Results….
Oh, you are all so very awesome! We’ve got some additional details on the photos we shared over the past couple of days – thanks for helping us identify them! In case you missed them the first time, you can …
Fun With Photos (Again)
Yesterday, we shared half of a collection of unidentified photos, asking for your help identifying them. We’ve got a few responses (we’ll share those with you tomorrow), so here’s the other half: Again, if you can help us identify any …
Fun With Photos!
Eric, one of our volunteers, is tackling a photo-cataloguing project. Today, he came across a collection of almost-entirely unidentified photos that have been hanging around for years (literally decades!). we thought this might be a good time to get everybody …
Historic Imaginings
While we’re on the subject of Sarah Ellen Dow’s memoirs, let me transcribe for you her description of the Valley as she made her way through it, for the first time, to her new home. Remember, this was 1893: “My …
Deciphering Memoirs
Yesterday, we brought you a story of Sarah Ellen Dow, one of the settler women who arrived in the Creston Valley in the 1890s. We know more about her thoughts and feelings on the early years of Creston’s settler era …
A Remarkable Pioneering Lady
“Sarah Ellen Dow, one of our remarkable pioneering ladies, gets talked about a lot – but always in terms of what she saw, what she witnessed happening in the community as it grew up around here, never in terms of …
An Amazing Community
Yesterday, the Kootenay Milk Producers hosted a tractor parade to show support for the isolated seniors in the community’s care homes and for the front-line workers. It was a pretty cool thing to see! They came up Cavell Street from …
Caption This!
Okay, so we’ve been asking you to do lots of things lately – tell us your best Quarantales, consider some pretty profound questions, keep a diary, grow a beard…. Here’s a collection of some of the photos we have in …
Profound Questions
These past few days, we’ve been talking a bit about self-isolation and how it’s impacted us. One thing I think we can all agree on is: we’re probably all getting a little bored. Which might explain why I’ve been seeing …