This community events calendar is the place to find fun activities and things to do throughout Lewis County, including Centralia, Chehalis and beyond.
An Independence Day Celebration … mid-19th century style!
Meet with others who have dealt with or have a family member with breast cancer.
Join us for a day by the Chehalis River. Come prepared to pull blackberry with appropriate gear for the weather, sturdy shoes and a reusable water bottle. We will provide snacks, coffee, and water. Register today for this exciting volunteer opportunity. Help us conserve, protect and restore!
The annual Pioneer Pie Social happens Sunday, July 14 at 1:30 p.m. at the historic Claquato Church.
Over 30 pies will be up for live and silent auction as well as gift baskets and other items donated by friends of the museum. Live bluegrass music will be provided by The Lewis County Pickers.
This year’s auctioneer is Todd Mason. Enjoy pie by the slice, a game of corn hole, balloon animals, and the candy hunt.
The Daughters of the Pioneers will be giving tours of the historic Claquato Church.
Make arts and crafts with members of your community! Collaboration encouraged. For all ages. This event is part of the Summer Library Program, a Timberland Regional Library district-wide program.
Putting up the bountiful harvest for a long winter. Activities and discussion of how to put up and store foods in the mid-19th century. Panel of our Living Historians. Mary Borst had a lovely, in that day, very modern cook stove. Joseph also built her a state of the art pantry, which kept things cool ~ one of my personal favorites in the house.
Meet with others who have dealt with or have a family member with breast cancer.
Join storyteller and Quinault Tribal Ambassador Harvest Moon to hear tales from the Northwest Coast Indian tradition. This program is part of Timberland Reads Together, featuring “There There” by Tommy Orange and Native Voices, focused on Indigenous Peoples history and culture.
Meet with others who have dealt with or have a family member with breast cancer.
Living Historian Beverly York will present Friendship Quilts, how the pioneers moving west would take a part of their friends and family history with them. Volunteer Coordinator Sara Light-Waller will show how to put a signature on the quilt block, as they did in the mid-19th century.
