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WRITER WRITER Visit the Walla Walla Lifestyles Website! wallawallalifestyles.com WALLA WALLA LIFESTYLES 5 August 2015 table contents PUBLISHER o Brian Hunt f AUGUST 2015 EDITOR Rick Doyle 7 FISSURES + FLOODS = FRUIT How the Valley’s geologic past laid the foundation for the agricultural MANAGING EDITOR paradise we know today Brenden Koch FULL CIRCLE: THE VINEYARDS OF WALLA WALLA ASSOCIATE EDITOR Chetna Chopra 11 The Valley’s celebrated wine industry of today has its roots in the 19th century PRODUCTION MANAGER WINE MAP Vera Hammill 14 Know where to go to taste, buy and enjoy Walla Walla’s renowned wines DESIGNER/WEBMASTER SWEET! Steve Lenz 16 Walla Walla Sweet Onions: a tasty legacy PRODUCTION STAFF James Blethen, Ralph Hendrix, DINING GUIDE Steve Lenz, Jason Uren 20 Where to nd ne fare SALES STAFF Jeff Sasser, Donna Schenk, LAND, KINFOLK, HORSES AND RODEO Colleen Streeter, Mike Waltman, 22 The Lynch family’s passions go back generations in the region EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Karlene Ponti ‘MY LOVE IS A MULETEER’ 24 Siblings from a musical Walla Walla family make it big internationally, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT one penning a hit song in 1916 Kandi Suckow DUKE, THE BYRDS AND A LITTLE, WHITE HOUSE: COVER: A collage of vintage images illus- 27 WALLA WALLA’S ILLUSTRIOUS AND STILL-GROWING trates various aspects of the Walla Walla Valley's history. Clockwise from top left: MUSICAL HERITAGE Fort Walla Walla — now part of the Jona- Big-name artists as diverse as John Philip Sousa, Duke Ellington, Dolly Parton than M. Wainwright Memorial Veterans and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis have graced Walla Walla’s stages throughout Affairs Medical Center — as seen from the air in 1917. (Baumeister photo cour- its history — and, soon, Mumford & Sons and Foo Fighters will join their ranks tesy of Fort Walla Walla Museum) Roy Dorr and his Hi Fi Four play at a Saturday night dance at the VFW in November 1957. LIVING YOUR ART (Courtesy of Joe Drazan) Artist John M. 34 Jeana Garske’s residence exempli¢ es feng shui principles as well as Stanley's 1853 depiction of the third Hud- son's Bay Company Fort Walla Walla along her appreciation for artwork and the Valley the Columbia River. The Wallula Gap near the mouth of the Walla Walla River can WHAT WAS OLD IS NEW AGAIN be seen in the background. (Courtesy of Brenden Koch) A postcard features a crew 38 Historic o£ cers’ quarters at Fort Walla Walla are being rehabilitated and using a team of horses to harvest wheat in transformed into housing for veterans a field near Walla Walla and the foothills of the Blue Mountains. (Courtesy image) GO NATIVE FOR EDITORIAL INFORMATION 42 Joseph and Laura Maier look to the plants of the Valley’s past to ¢ ll their garden Rick Doyle [email protected] CAN’T-MISS EVENTS 46 Brenden Koch [email protected] WHERE IN WALLA WALLA? 47 PLEASE LIKE US PLEASE FOLLOW Union-Bulletin.com US 6 WALLA WALLA LIFESTYLES Heritage: Geology A 1910 postcard view shows a large, verdant garden nourished by the Walla Walla Valley's fertile soil. (Courtesy image) Fissures + oods = fruit How the Valley’s geologic past laid the foundation for the agricultural paradise we know today Story by Tamara Enz ivalries between states go back a long for all that came later. A few million years passed. Mammoths way. Most of us are proud of our home O£ and on for approximately 11 million moved south, and the northern glaciers made Rstates, but many of us carry small prej- years, § ssures — cracks in the Earth’s surface their appearance along the 49th parallel. Rogue udices against other states: they’re too hot, too — spewed rivers of lava (think: Hawaii) across glacial § ngers crept south across this future crowded, have funny accents or scary people. the Paci§ c Northwest. These § ssures unloaded international boundary, one blocking the The Northwest is no di£ erent; most everyone enough basalt to cover almost 60,000 square Clark Fork River along the Idaho/Montana has some li¥ le gripe about neighboring states. miles of what would become Washington, Or- border and impounding 3,000 square miles But prehistory, catastrophe and serendipity egon and Idaho. of water. What happened next is a li¥ le murky, have combined to make the Northwest more The basalt ows are as much as three miles but, eventually, the glacial § nger oated free connected than most places.