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"Frozen in Time" Dance
Saturday, January 31st
Local DJ Bob
Wagner from Fantasia Sight and Sound (shown here dressed up as a
nerd) led those attending the dance through
toe-tapping music from the 1930’s to the 70’s.
Costume winners are shown:
1) 1920’s-30’s; Kathy Stuppy of Star, Idaho
2) 1940’s - 50’s: Judy Carr of Star, Idaho
and 3) 1960’s-70’s: Anne Edwards of Boise, Idaho
Anne is shown with DJ
Bob Wagner
receiving her prize
Santa
visited Caldwell Museum Sat Dec 13th!
Santa with elf and Rudolph
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Book
Signing:
Robert D. Bolen Book Signing
Dec 13th at Our Memories Indian
Creek Museum, Caldwell, Idaho
"Smoke Signals
& Wagon Tracks"
 
P. Gary Eller & John Larsen Book
Signing & Singing at the Nampa Train Depot Museum
Thursday, December 11, 2008
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Old
Fashioned Tea
& Style
Show
April 5th, 2008
was
held at the Masonic Event Center, Nampa, Idaho. 140 women
enjoyed an elegant tea of delightful sandwiches and scones
served with the traditional Devonshire cream and lemon curd. A
slide show of pictures of area citizens and the Dewey Palace
Hotel ran in the background during the tea.
Wendy Miller, curator of the Canyon
County Historical Society and director of the Nampa Train Depot
Museum, presented a fashion show of clothing from the 1860's to the
1960's. We thought you would enjoy some of the photos from the show.
Photos are available for
purchase. (Press Tribune Photos can be purchased on line)
Photos by Idaho Press
Tribune
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Bob Wagner enjoying the music himself!
Brandi & Ben Krajnik swinging through the music
Ara Patterson & Kate Rambeau cuttin' the rug!
The dance was a fund raising activity for the Nampa
Train Depot Museum’s red building.
Funds raised at this event will contribute to the enhancement and
expansion of displays and will allow the red
building to remain open to the public year round.
Photos by
Sandy Kershner
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Author
Robb Bolen, “The Boise Bead Trader” signed his new book titled
“Smoke Signals & Wagon Tracks”. Robb’s partial Indian heritage,
study of Archeology and his extensive interest and knowledge in
beads provides a fascinating view on the history of Idaho and the
American Northwest.
Robb will
also be the guest speaker for February's general meeting on February
24th.
Watch for location notice. Bob is receiving great responses to
this book!
Visitors
explored the museum displays. Entrance fees were waived during
the Open House, and guests enjoyed light refreshments.
“Early
Songs of Southern Idaho
and the Emigration Trails”
Eller and Larsen collected and researched hundreds of early
songs and have written a book giving the history of 17 songs. An
enclosed CD includes these songs performed by Eller and Larsen,
along with additional musical colleagues. They performed
the songs at the book signing.
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Holiday Open House at the
Nampa Train Depot
Over 300 people turned out to
visit the Depot's Open House and see the various displays.
Shown at the left, Columbia High
School carolers join Idaho's Lady Lane (at the piano ) in Christmas
songs. Nampa Mayor Tom Dale watched from the back (on the right in
his signature hat.)
To match the train theme,
volunteers and staff were dressed in railroad workers costumes. Pati
Sweet (manning the cider table) Kate Rambeau (in the gift shop) and
even Bob Wagner (local movie critic and chocolatier) was
dressed as a train engineer while sharing chocolate goodies from his
book "Chocolate Passions" and DVD "How to Make
Chocolate Truffles" both available at the Nampa Train Depot
Museum
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Fall Bus Tour
“Utter Tour, Part 1”
Saturday, October 11, 2008
“Part 1” included historic sites of the 1862 Utter wagon train
attacks, deaths and aftermath, as well as the history of the South
Alternate Oregon Trail, some geology of Owyhee County and
effected emigrant trails and routes, and other Owyhee history.
“Part 2” of the tour across eastern Oregon (also presented during
the OCTA convention) will be offered in the spring of 2009.
Photos by Mike
Gable
 
 
Photos by Mike Gable
 
Photos by Idaho Press
Tribune
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