Welcome to the Miller–Freer Trading Post play! This play was originally written to coincide with the Miller-Freer Trading Post “Museum to You” box from the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. The boxes are available to schools in North Central Washington Museum and Cultural Center for a minimal fee.

Inside the Miller-Freer box, classes will find the costumes, scripts, props, and artifacts necessary to produce a reader’s theater play about a day in the life of an 1880s trading post in the Wenatchee Valley. The materials and activities in this box are most appropriate for grades three through seven; however, strong readers in the second grade may be comfortable with them. This box was compiled with the following objectives in mind:

• Through discussions, acting a character’s part, handling artifacts, and reading background information, participants glimpse everyday life in the Wenatchee Valley in the 1880s.
• Participants become aware of the diverse cultural groups that inhabited the Wenatchee Valley then and of the unique contributions each group made.
• Participants explore the differences and similarities between consumer services today and in the 1880s.

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