CWU exhibit tells stories through footwear
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ELLENSBURG, Wave. —
Behind a pair of simple black heels is the story of one woman's run away from Salmas, Iran. A pair of black, tall, lace-up Double-H boots tells the biography of a Roslyn coal miner. Tiny, blue Old Navy tennis shoes air a mother's heartache over the passing of her little boy.
These shoes and many more from residents of Kittitas County are on advance at the Central Washington University Museum of Culture and Environment through June 15 as part of the manifest "In My Shoes: Stories about Life, Told from the Bottom Up."
The exhibit is presented in association contact with "Journey Stories," a traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institute. "Travel Stories" reveals the history of travel in America, from Europeans' first crossing the Atlantic Tons and traveling west across the United States, to the invention of trains, boulevard cars and aircraft.
In order to display "Journey Stories," the CWU museum was asked to largesse an exhibit to go with it.
"We thought we really needed to do something home grown," said End Auslander, museum director. "Part of it was that we wanted to celebrate the creativity of people in the valley.
Source: The Seattle Times