Area authors give WSU lecture

The history of the Palouse will come to light April 15 when local authors Alex McGregor and Richard Scheuerman lecture at Washington State University. McGregor and Scheuerman will speak April 15 in the CUB Junior Ballroom at 7:30 p.m.

The event is the 14th Paul Catts Memorial Lecture. Title of the talk will be “Remarkable People and a Remarkable Land.”

“It’s about pioneer values that endure. It’s about the last bastion of family businesses, farming families,” McGregor said of his lecture.

McGregor will detail the changes brought about by European settlers to the Palouse region. He said he plan...