Holiday Open House coming up

Dates: FridayNovember 27, 28 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
November 29 and December 5, 6 noon – 4 p.m.

Friends of Skamokawa invite you to join us for a warm and festive open house to celebrate the holidays! Both floors of Redmen Hall will be overflowing with locally handmade gifts, and as always, will be beautifully decorated with lights, ribbons and fresh greens.

Home-baked cookies and breads will be served, along with coffee and hot cider. Local musicians will provide entertainment.

Wahkiakum artists will have a special display of their beautiful work on the second floor….there is bound to be a ‘perfect find’ for someone on your list. All their items will be offered for sale. Many unique craft and hand made items will be available.

Each of us has a “difficult to buy for” person on our Christmas list and often a book fills that spot perfectly. Redmen Hall has an excellent assortment of books by local and regional authors on a myriad of subjects. Local history? Logging? Fishing? Ecology? Recreation? Inspirational? Cook Books? You’ll find them all…come in and browse and find that perfect gift.

Gift items will remain available at Redmen Hall through Sunday, December 20th.

If you are a crafts-person and would like to consign your work at Redmen Hall, please call Kathleen at 360.795.3007 for more information, or email:
friendsofskamokawa@gmail.com

Homemade Pie and That Hiking Guy

Craig Romano, author of several Northwest hiking books, has logged hundreds of miles throughout Washington and Northwest trails.

He will talk about some of those trails, accompanied by a slide show, at Redmen Hall this coming Tuesday night at 7pm. He will also sign copies of Day Hiking: Olympic Peninsula.


There will be no admission charge for this event. Come and enjoy homemade apple pie, made with heirloom apples from Friends of Skamokawa board member: Carol Carver of Islands End Farm.

Skamokawa Artists Show, now through Mid November

Jill Hatier, board member of Friends of Skamokawa, asked her neighbors to display some of their works in this local show.

Right: Kitty Speranza demonstrates rug hooking.

Heavy Stone Jewelry by Becky Ledtke.







Entertainment by the local group Willapa Hills.

Opening October 17th -

Artists from Skamokawa will show in the "Smokey Water" exhibit, opening on Saturday. You'll see new offerings from artists not seen before at Redmen Hall, working in a variety of media. Redmen Hall is open Thursdays through Sundays from noon to four.

Irene Martin on the salmon fishery of the Lower Columbia

Irene Martin in the archivist and historian for the Friends of Skamokawa. She is also a Episcopalian priest for St. James Episcopal Church in Cathlamet. She shared some insight into the relationship between the fishery and the community of the region in this video, uploaded by the Save Our Wild Salmon coalition, to YouTube.

Awards for local author

Skamokawa author Jolan Durrah has received 6 book awards. Aventure in Borneo: The True Story of One Man's Quest to Find the Bornean Peacock Pheasant, was recently awarded Finalist in the categories of Multicultural Non-fiction, Travel/Travel Guide, and Best Cover Design, Non-fiction, by the 2009 Next Generation INDIE International Book Awards. The book also received an Honoreable mention in the Non-fiction category of the 2009 Beach Book Festival as well as a 2008 Premier Book Award, and 2008 DIY Book Award, and was nominated for a 2009 Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Association Award.

The book tell the story of a young man who is determined to find the tiny Bornean Peacock Pheasant, though no documented sighting of the bird in the wild has been noted since 1962.

His adventures are many and varied, as, traveling solo, he encounters obstacles complicated by not knowing the local language or customs.

Jolan Durrah and her husband Rick, raise exotic birds on their hillside farm near Skamokawa.

The book is available at Redmen Hall, 1394 West State Route 4 in Skamokawa. For more information, call 360-795-8007

Some Skamokawa History........

Irene Martin, Governor's Heritage Award winner, talked about some Skamokawa History last Saturday at Redmen Hall. She was the featured speaker at a Docents Training Day.

You can listen to a podcast of her talk here.

If you can spare 4 hours a month, join the docents of Redmen Hall. These volunteer docents staff the hall each weekend from noon to 4pm.

Redmen Hall is home to the RiverLife Interpretive Center and its displays of Skamokawa and Wahkiakum history. the hall is also the home of Wahkiakum County's only bookstore, with an impressive selection of informative works on the life and culture of the Lower Columbia region.