Susan Pickett, a violinist, musicologist, and Whitman College Professor Emerita, will speak about Emilie and Marion Bauer, Walla Walla natives who had influential music careers in New York City at a Fort Walla Walla Museum After Hours Talk.

The presentation will take place in the museum's Grand Hall, 755 Myra Road, on Thursday, February 27 at 4 pm. It is free to attend.

The Bauer family had a prominent presence in Walla Walla. The eldest child, Emilie Frances, may have been the first Jewish child born here in 1865. Marion Eugenie, the seventh and last child of the Bauer family, was born here i...