The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

WALLA WALLA-Waitsburg artist Bill Rodgers volunteered at the fourth-annual Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead. The two-day event, held on Walla Walla's Main street Saturday and Sunday, included a live DJ, a Shakespearean-themed "Pageant of the Dead" performed by local student groups, vendor booths, face-painting, food trucks and a steamroller printmaking event.

For only five dollars, a person 12 or older could carve their own plate and have their design printed. Fabric prints are made by inking relief carved print blocks, laying them upon fabric in sheets or t-shirts, and then driving a sma...