There is no way to truly define when and where jazz first sprung to life. The name jazz was originally given to the music that was coming out of New Orleans during the early twentieth century but many of the components that make jazz so interesting can be linked to other cultures and traced

Front Street is one of the original streets in Penticton and as such has a distinct history. The beginnings of Front Street date back to...

Many people don't know that cowboys were a necessity to people and towns. The main thing they are known for is herding cattle, but they...

The grand mirror in the SS Sicamous. It hangs above the grand staircase between B deck and C deck on the sternwheeler.

The Faventia, also known as a Barrel Piano, was manufactured by Vicente Llinares in Barcelona, Spain in 1950 as an attempt to...

Blog post about the Victor Victrola Phonograph machine - how it evolved and how it worked.