As I mentioned last time, the gold rush had brought significant change to Walla Walla including a large proportion of temporary to permanent residents.
This specimen is perhaps the finest piece of smoking paraphernalia you’ve ever laid eyes on. The material is meerschaum, a rare mineral found almost exclusively in a valley in western Turkey.
Welcome to the wonderful history of Whitman and Walla Walla! This blog will feature different objects from the Penrose Archives each week in a discussion of regional and college history. The objects I have chosen this week are symbolic of this inaugural entry of the blog.
Uprisings in Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries over the past few weeks have demonstrated the importance of spectacles in the international media. With these recent events in mind, speakers gathered in Maxey Auditorium to participate in a symposium entitled “Global Media, Global Spectacle" on Sat. Feb. 26.
David James Duncan delivered a lecture, "The Wild Without, and the Wild Within: toward a spirituality that serves the living world," on Wednesday, February 23.
Once a year, 150 grade school and middle school students stampede into Reid Campus Center for a carnival organized by Whitman's Mentor Program which places Whitman students in local public schools to mentor...
Whitman College's search for a professor to fill the newly-combined position of environmental studies and classics began on Monday, Feb. 7 and will continue until shortly before spring break.
