About Klickitat County, WA

The Stonehenge Memorial near Maryhill Museum of Art will be the site of ongoing acoustic studies by British researcher Dr. Rupert Till from the University of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire.  On Saturday, July 5 at 3 p.m. Dr. Till will present an hour-long program about Stonehenge, recent discoveries and his work on the Neolithic Stonehenge in England.

Till and his colleague Dr. Bruno Fazenda are visiting Maryhill in the hopes that they can learn something about how sound was used at Stonehenge. While Till has studied the Neolithic site in England, he has found that the state of the ancient monument makes it much more difficult to do sound studies. He needed a full size model of the site.  And that is how Stonehenge Memorial becomes important to Till. "By coming to Maryhill Museum of Art's Stonehenge Memorial," stated Till, "we will have an opportunity to do acoustic studies on an intact monument."   Till believes that if he can confirm his theories, it may lead to some of the most revealing discoveries about the nature of the Neolithic site.

"By coming to Maryhill Museum of Art's Stonehenge Memorial," stated Till, "we will have an opportunity to do acoustic studies on an intact monument."  

Till and Fazenda are doing work funded by the University of Huddersfield http://www.hud.ac.uk/ and have had discussions with Professor Mike Parker Pearson and his team, http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/research/stonehenge/index.html who are running the Stonehenge Riverside project. Till and Fazenda's work is aimed at feeding their research into the larger research project at Stonehenge.  There are plans to use special computer software to model sound as well as images, based on a digital 3-D graphical model of Stonehenge. They will then be able to predict the acoustics of the space with the software, and then compare it with the results of the study at Stonehenge Memorial.

North America's only full-scale replica of Stonehenge, was built by legendary Pacific Northwest road builder Samuel Hill, founder of Maryhill Museum of Art near Goldendale, Washington. The Stonehenge Memorial is located four miles east of Maryhill Museum of Art, which is open March 15 through November 15, just off Washington Scenic Route 14.

"We are delighted to welcome Dr. Till and his colleague Dr. Fazenda to Maryhill to study the Stonehenge Memorial," says Colleen Schafroth, executive director of Maryhill Museum of Art. "The Columbia Gorge plateau is, for many of us, closer than the plains of Salisbury, and this gives us an opportunity to be a part of some of the most exciting archeological discoveries yet to come in Britain!"

Built thousands of years after the original Stonehenge, by Hill as a tribute to the soldiers and sailors of Klickitat County who lost their lives, Maryhill Museum's full-scale Stonehenge was the first monument in our nation to honor the dead of World War I. A Quaker pacifist, Hill was mistakenly informed that the original Stonehenge had been used as a sacrificial site, and thus constructed the replica to remind us that ''humanity is still being sacrificed to the god of war.'' The location now also includes monuments to the soldiers of Klickitat County who died in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.

There is no admission fee to visit Stonehenge Memorial. It is open dawn to dusk each day.  

Here's a list of some of the fun summer events happening in Skamania & Klickitat Counties in the Gorge this summer.

• June 28- 6th annual Mt. Adams Country Bicycle Tour- Trout Lake- scenic 11 mile family ride, plus 50 & 100 mile loops www.troutlake.org
• July 4-34th Demolition Derby-Klickitat County Fairgrounds -Goldendale 1-5 pm featuring car racing and crashing
• July 4-Old Fashioned 4th of July in the Park- Rock Creek Park-Stevenson
• July 4-Red,Wine & Blues-Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center 5:30-10 p.m.-blues,jazz, & wine tasting
• July 4-6-Goldendale Community Days-GMA Open Show n'Shine, Arts & crafts, food
• July 19- 4th Annual Art & Wine Fusion, White Salmon
• July 19-20- 12th Annual Trout Lake Festival of the Arts
• July 25- 24th Annual Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival Skamania County Fairgrounds- Stevenson
• August 1-3- 43rd annual Trout Lake Fair-Trout Lake-parade, games & exhibits
• August 13-17- Skamania County Fair & Timber Carnival. Stevenson- Free County Fair-rides, music,art, exhibits
• August 16-17- 5th Annual Maryhill Arts Festival- Maryhill Museum 11-5-fine art, food, wine, entertainment
• August 21-24-Klickitat County Fair & Rodeo- Goldendale-at the Fairgrounds, rodeo, junior rodeo, timber carnival, parade, and more
• August 30-13th Annual Show n' Shine-Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center-Stevenson-noon-4

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The Lyle Twin Bridges Museum is located at Third and Hwy 14 in downtown Lyle, Washington. On June 14-15. 2008, there will be a booth at the Lyle Park Place for the 6th annual 13-plus Miles of Yard Sales. The sale hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The museum first opened the Summer of 2007. The museum's focus is on history of the Lyle area. The collection consists of photographs, newspaper articles, Lyle(town) and Lyle School histories, mementos and other memorabilia. Donations & information with a connection to this area will be gladly accepted.

Other museums in Klickitat County are the Gorge Heritage Museum in Bingen, the Maryhill museum near Maryhill and the Klickitat County Historical Society located at the Presby Mansion in Goldendale.

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Car is King Weekend will be held June 14-15, 2008 at Maryhill Museum of Art. Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. the "Concours de Maryhill" car show will be held on the museum's east lawn. There will be dozens of classic, sport and customized cars on display. This event is an open car show and anyone who has a special car may enter. There will be a number of competition categories including best original, classic, hot rod & muscle car. Sunday, a highlight of the show begins at 9 a.m. with the Vintage Hill Climb race. Spectators will be able to watch as vintage cars from the 1930's through 1960's race up scenic Maryhill Loops Road. This was the first paved road in the Pacific Northwest. You can view the race from the Hwy 97 overlook and also from designated viewpoints along the race route. It is sure to be a fun weekend with much to see.

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Klickitat Pottery is handmade in White Salmon, WA by Ed and Diane Swick. I have known the Swicks for almost 25 years when we all sold our handmade goods at the Portland Saturday Market. I have always loved their pottery and use it everyday. They make a wide range of items including: mugs, vases, bowls, dinnerware sets, cannisters, even lamps. Each pot is handmade either on a pottery wheel or slab built. It is then fired once, glazed, and again fired to 2300 degrees in a gas kiln. Their pottery takes on the shapes, colors and reflects the beauty of the area. All klickitat Pottery is lead free. oven, microwave, and dishwasher safe.

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