Hanson's whiskey brand of hospitality
Automobile Travel at the Wasa Hotel #0223.0005 ca. 1915 - Image courtesy of CBIRH and the Cranbrook Archives Nils Hanson was known as "Hanson the Hospitable" or “mine host” or later, simply “the Guv’nor.” Famous for his generosity and gracious entertaining from the mid-1880s until his death in 1917, Hanson drew people from ...
4-H inspires new generations
4-H Panel - Image courtesy of the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History and the Triangle Women's Institute. The Triangle Women's Institute in Grasmere and the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History embarked on a journey in 2020 to preserve the unique history of their 4-H Club in a museum-style panel that will be...
Memories preserved in the South Country
Memories Panel 2020 - Image courtesy of the Columbia Basin Institute and the Triangle Women's Institute. The Memories panel was created by the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History and The Triangle Women's Institute as the beginning of a 20 part series of museum quality panels that will grace the Pioneer Hall walls in...
The building blocks of Grasmere
Industries panel 2020 - Image courtesy of the Columbia Basin Institute and the Triangle Women's Institute. The Industries panel was created by the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History and The Triangle Women's Institute as the beginning of a 20 part series of museum quality panels that will grace the Pioneer Hall walls...
The mysterious Glass House
The Glass House #2040.0005 - Image courtesy of SD#5 and CBIRH David H. Brown spent 35 years in the funeral business. Brown wondered what he could do with all the embalming fluid bottles? In 1952, he began building a house overlooking Kootenay Lake near Boswell (along Highway 3A); construction materials, the rectangular embalming...
