Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries

If you’ve read my column for a while, you may know that I’ve had a desire to travel Route 66 and I have written about books on the topic before. Since this year is the 100th anniversary of the Mother Road, it seems like a good time to revisit and share my personal update on the subject.

Last October, my husband and I finally completed part of the route! Since experienc...

In 1975, Chevrolet ran an iconic commercial and jingle that got all America singing along. The name of the commercial was “Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet”, and you can watch the original on YouTube. Those of us in the upper age registers are now singing the song in our heads. According to various sources, the jingle was written by Ed Labunski, and the cam...

On July 4, we'll mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the United States' semiquincentennial. While that may be hard to say, we've made it easy to learn about through our dedicated webpage that features book lists, movi...

Every August, the White Salmon Community Library fills up with cardboard tubes, plastic bottles, pom poms, and kids with big ideas. The goal: build a city out of materials that might otherwise be recycled or thrown away.

As they plan and construct, kids naturally bump into STEAM concepts — why a tower tips, how pieces connect, what makes someth...