Washington Beer Blog
Barlows Brewery – new partnership expands distribution footprint statewide By washingtonbeerblog on January 12, 2021 at 1:45 PM
Barlows Brewery of Vancouver, Washington opened less than a year ago amidst the pandemic restrictions. See our story about the opening last February. Not an easy thing to do. Today, we learned that Barlows Brewery is partnering with Kendall’s Pioneer Distributing and Browar Polska to distribute its beers across Washington state.
Here is the announcement we received today:
BARLOWS CRAFT BREWS NOW POURING ACROSS WASHINGTON
Fast-emerging craft brewer partnering with Kendall’s Pioneer and Browar Polska to offer innovative craft beers in multiple channels across the state
Clark County History: Mules and pack animals By Martin Middlewood for The Columbian
Published: January 10, 2021, 6:00am
Share: A Vancouver Barracks mule train returns from the Lacamas Creek artillery range (renamed Camp Bonneville in 1909) along the city streets around 1908. The convoy heads down 10th Street (now Evergreen Boulevard) toward the barracks packing ammunition. The troopers belong to the U.S. Army Mountain Gun Battery, 2nd Field Artillery Regiment stationed here between 1904 and 1913. The steeple of the First Presbyterian Church and the minister s home rise in the background. (Contributed by Vancouver Barracks Military Association)
Contrary to Hollywood’s horsey version of the West, mules played a big role. Gen. George Crook preferred riding a mule, so did William “Buffalo Bill” Cody and Gen. O. O. Howard. Perhaps filmmakers assumed soldiers, cowboys, gunslingers and lawmen looked more formidable straddling horses instead of mules.
Clark County History: Kaiser Shipyards
A Tale of Six Cities By Martin Middlewood, for The Columbian
Published: December 27, 2020, 6:00am
Share: Employment at the Kaiser Shipyards brought 45,000 workers and their families to Vancouver right after World War II started, and they needed housing. Suddenly villages sprung up forming a ring around middle-class Vancouver. This 1942 photo taken on the new communities opening day shows the areas offering temporary homes for shipyard workers and their families: McLaughlin Heights, Fruit Valley, Ogden Meadows, Bagley Downs, Burton Homes and Harney Hill. (Contributed by Clark County History Museum)
Once World War II broke out, the Kaiser Shipyards worker recruitment ballooned Vancouver’s population. Abruptly, a town of 18,000 faced an influx of 45,000 more. Stunned by a population spike of two-and-a-half times its own, the city turned to planning.
Historic tale of community rescue to Zoom from La Center museum By Scott Hewitt, Columbian Arts & Features Reporter
Published: December 24, 2020, 6:00am
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2 Photos A historical view of the ferry known as the La Center Sternwheeler, which stayed busy a century ago connecting north county with the rest of the world via a La Center dock. (Contributed by La Center Historical Museum) Photo Gallery
On the day after Christmas, Steve Becker will use today’s cutting-edge communication technology to tell a century-old tale about just plain folks pulling together to save one fragile life during a time of emergency in north Clark County and all around the world.
Clark County History: First Chinese residents By Martin Middlewood, for The Columbian
Published: December 20, 2020, 6:05am
Share: Chin Wing was the Cantonese cook for Major General Thomas M. Anderson, commandant of Vancouver Barracks 1886-1898. His cook s photo was taken about 1890 and is one of the earliest photos of a Chinese person living in Clark County. (Contributed by Clark County Historical Museum)
When the photographer snapped this studio photo of Chin Wing in 1890, Washington had been a state just one year, and the Chinese population reached 3,260. Twenty years earlier, the census found 234 Chinese in the Washington Territory, and by 1880, the number reached 3,186.