BIHM Museum News Dedicated to Preserving the Colorful History of Bainbridge Island    September 2014

Like so many other places in the West, there are no firm boundaries for Rolling Bay. Its center is generally considered to be at the corner of Valley and Sunset Drive. The Lushootseed name for the area north of Skiff Point is Cagalwes (beach on backside). The USPS calls it Rollingbay and an ambitious developer platted a “Rolling Bay City” on the south side of Murden Cove in the early 1900’s .

The nearby mill at Port Madison began operating in 1854, and Reuben Bean settled a claim on Blakely Harbor that same year. In 1856 the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey established a signal at Skiff Point, and conducted a survey of

the island. Captain Renton filed for land near

the mill in 1863. Sometime after that, Dona Falk established a home near what is now Green Spot and later homesteaded on the north side of Murden Cove in 1876. This would have been a better location for farming as it was sunnier. Falk was said to be the first non-native to settle in the area. His large garden yielded vegetables and berries. He carried the produce with the help of a neck yoke and sold as far north as Port Madison.

Murden Cove got its name from the alleged murder of a man who had come to the

Rolling Bay

Portion of Plate 59 Plat Book of Kitsap County

Anderson Map Company 1909

(Continued on page 6) Mr. and Mrs. Dona Falk         BIHM #300 

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Bellevue High School Students Living the Ongoing Immigrant Saga

The Island Story told by the museum shares many interesting tales of immigrants finding their way to Bainbridge and building a life. But for our nation and our state, the immigrant saga is not only important historically, it is an ongoing, still-unfolding saga.

On July 21, the museum had the privilege of helping some of our area’s newest residents learn about what other people - also immigrants and children of immigrants - experienced here more than seventy years ago.

The young people were twenty Bellevue High School students, all “English Language Learners,” who were studying Washington history as required for high school graduation. They spoke over eight different languages — Thai, Spanish, Japanese, Russian and others — but only recently had any need to know English.

Their teacher, Tracy Shulman, is the Island-raised daughter of retired Bainbridge High School teacher Joyce Nishimura. Joyce was raised in Hawaii where only selected Japanese Americans were sent to camps during WWII. She did not know about it until she came to the mainland. One of the people she first met on Bainbridge Island was Mrs. Michi Noritake, who offered to help her take care of baby Tracy, becoming an honorary grandmother in the process. And so the story continues to another generation.

Shulman had helped devise an ambitious curriculum of six field trips during the three-week course to sites that shaped Washington history. Not only were the students visiting “actual places,” they were also learning from primary source materials rather than from texts.

What could be more primary than the actual persons who took part in the historical event? Kazuko “Kay” (Sakai) Nakao and Michiko “Michi” Rose (Amatatsu) Noritake had been not much older than the students when they were among the Islanders forcibly removed and sent to the American concentration camp Manzanar during the early days of World War II.

Now these two spry 94-year-olds sat among the teens as each of the students used the museum’s files to learn about one particular person sent to the camps. They then traveled with the class to visit the Japanese American Exclusion Memorial (it was Kay’s first time ever on a school bus), and to tell what they

remembered of what happened on that day, March 30, 1942. “The soldiers had bayonets. It was scary,” Kay told them.

“The soldiers were very young, from New Jersey, and they didn’t know what to expect.”

“But when we were on the train they began to realize that we were just like them. They were surprised. We sang together and they let us put up the blinds when we were not in towns,” Michi added.

The students were asked if other kinds of events with soldiers had taken place in their own countries. One boy mentioned that three million people had been killed in Cambodia before he was born. But all eighteen boys and two girls, polite and attentive, left with an enhanced understanding that this country’s history is the story of immigrants like them.

Tracy sent the following note after their visit: Thank you so much for such a wonderful visit! My students said it was one of their favorite trips! … They liked looking through the files, getting the ID tags, and the museum exhibits. Thank you so much for organizing it for us. Having Kay … and Michi with us made it a special experience.” 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Rolling Bay 1, 6, 7 Bellevue Students 2 President’s Message 3 Executive Director Message 3 Message From The Curator 4 Museum Changes 5 Education & Outreach 8-9 Donors 10 Volunteers 10-11 Business Sponsors 11 Upcoming BIHM Events 12

Multilingual Visitors...from Bellevue by Susan Bottles

3 September 2014

From the Executive Director Hank Helm

If you have been in the museum lately you will notice that the efficiency improvements are well under way. One bathroom is closed and the small kitchen area is framed in; the closed bathroom will be smaller when it reopens. Curator Rick Chandler is acting as the Project Manager and is doing some of the demolition and framing as well. We apologize for the disruption, but believe the changes will add significant records storage and make things better for both staff and research library users. The Manzanar exhibit has been installed in the school house and the new Port Blakely exhibit is in process in the Bucey Gallery. This is going to be a great exhibit and I think everyone will be

pleased. A diorama will show Blakely Mill Number 2 which is regarded as the largest mill in the World at the time modeled which is around 1904.

Be sure and check out the banners outside each end of the museum. The one on the west is drawing a lot of attention in particular. It is of Janet Montgomery Munro with a raccoon and a gun. We have been informed by the Munro family that the gun will be donated to the museum. The banner on the east end of the building is of “Camp Kopayawa mermaids”.

The museum experienced the busiest two months ever for visitors in July and August. We counted a total of 1,880 visitors in July and 1,975 people visited in August. The previous high was 1,856 in August of 2011. For the year, we are above last year by 25%. It is truly amazing when we realize that visitor numbers have doubled in just five years.

We begin our annual raffle ticket sales this month. The US Postal Service clarified its rules this summer and we can no longer mail tickets to members as we have in the past. We hope you will all make an effort to get to the museum or at one of the areas we will be selling tickets at and purchase yours. Our fundraising has depended on raffle sales in the past to balance our budget.

I hope to see you in the museum soon!

Message From The President Karen Wilson

I mentioned in my last letter that the new Port Blakely exhibit was opening in July. It has been delayed, but will be rolling out October 11th. Watch for an invitation to the opening and please plan to come. I like to remind you to continue to support our business sponsors. Please note who they are on the logo page of this newsletter. We have three new sponsors: Bay Hay and Feed, Homestreet Bank and Rolling Bay Auto. Westside Pizza, another of our business sponsors has been providing pizza for the Historians Huddle. We really appreciate and enjoy this treat. Visit Westside Pizza at their new location in the Village between the new Starbucks and Sunshine Yogurt. Please come to the Huddle the 4th Wed. of every month from 6-7 p.m. at the Museum. All members are welcome. The September 24th Huddle HOT TOPIC will be a presentation by Let It Go Louie authors Gary

Loverich and Barbara Winther. The Croatians are an important part of Island history. If you’d like to purchase this interesting read, we are offering the book at 50% off at the Huddle. After the HOT TOPIC, we will mingle, share ideas and you can add your two cents worth to make the best little history museum in the world even better!!

Mark your calendars for Nov. 19th at 6:30p.m. President Jefferson will be visiting the Island on our behalf and will be doing a two hour program. Please call for details.

Lives and Lies—Rolling Bay Edition is a wrap. It was quite a celebration honoring the history of Rolling Bay. We want to give a special thank you to Bay Hay and Feed for so generously hosting the Garden Party portion of the celebration. The setting was spectacular. Like any event of this scale a lot of hard work by a lot of people is a necessity. Thank you to everyone, but a special thank you to Tom Thatcher. He is our board member that gave 1000% on this and made it happen.

Bainbridge Island Historical Museum 215 Ericksen Avenue NE Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

Contact Information Phone: 206-842-2773 Email: info@bainbridgehistory.org Website: www.bainbridgehistory.org

The Mission of the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum is to collect, preserve and foster knowledge of Bainbridge Island history.

BIHM is a nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation with directors elected from public membership. Your donations to BIHM are tax-deductible.

Board of Directors

Hank Helm Executive Director Rick Chandler Curator

Katy Curtis Education and Outreach Coordinator Rick Chandler Facilities Coordinator

Dan Groff Administrative Coordinator Arlene Donahue Membership Coordinator

President Karen Wilson

Vice-President Tom Thatcher

Co-Secretaries Andrea Mercado Bernie Baker

Treasurer Carolyn Hart

Directors: Karen Beierle Jim Chapel Bill Covert Kathy Daugherty Everett DuBois Anita Evans Tom Lamping Deena Poole Gary Sakuma 

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We are continuing to make progress on our archaeological project above Blakely Harbor. Following is a report from our Olympic College partner on this exciting undertaking.

Summary Statement Yama Archaeological Project

(YAP), Bainbridge Island, WA R. Drolet, Project Director Three local institutions have partnered

to conduct an archaeological study of a 19th and early 20th century village site, named Yama (45KP105), located near the western edge of Blakely Harbor. Bainbridge Island Historical Museum (BIHM), Kitsap County Historical Society and Museum (KCHSM), and Olympic College (OC) will direct the study. Affiliated institutions and organizations include Bainbridge Island Historic Preservation Commission (BIHPC), Bainbridge Island Metro Parks and Recreation District (BIMPRD), and Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community (BIJAC). Project staff is organizing initial site survey this summer and student participants are currently working at BIHM, reviewing and collecting data about Yama from historic maps and archives.

Project archaeologists have designed an intensive archaeological survey and excavation program at the 7-acre site that will be conducted 2015 to 2017. Funding is currently through a private trust fund. Equipment and materials, office space, a laboratory and research services have been secured through the partnering institutions. Students from OC and public volunteers will form the work force, directed and supervised by a team of professional anthropologists, archaeologists, and museum specialists affiliated with OC, BIHM, and KCHSM. Plans are being made to establish an archaeological field school. Grants and financial support are currently being sought for the project duration.

Yama is perhaps the best preserved Japanese immigrant village site in the Pacific Northwest. The community was occupied over an approximate 40-year

period (1883-1920s), representing a small work camp located on the outskirts of the Port Blakely Mill. At its peak, Yama contained approximately fifty cottage-style homes and 300 people divided between married and single village sections. The community also had a church, Buddhist temple, hotel, and store. While the village structures have long disappeared, fragmentary remains of historic pottery, porcelain, metal and glass are concentrated in household garbage dumps. Paths, cisterns, and other domestic features are present.

The archaeological portion of the project will focus on an intensive site survey. Project participants will systematically comb the site using a grid system of 20 m2 quadrants and transects. This technique will result in relocating the principle village features, construction remains, and trash pit areas necessary to reconstruct an accurate settlement map. The map will then permit more focused research of the village internal design and household areas. Limited testing and excavations are designed to recover material assemblages that can reveal information about how the early Japanese immigrant residents adapted to the Port Blakely Mill complex and the island environment.

While the archaeological survey is conducted, a team will be researching historical documents and recording information about the settlement and its population. These include census and cemetery records, maps and photographs, and oral histories.

Several important steps have already been established in the project development. Paperwork necessary to

nominate the site for State and National Register status has been completed and the nomination is currently under review. A project research design has been prepared to guide the field and museum work. Students from Olympic College are currently participating in setup operations and being trained in research techniques. A YAP Project Task Force Committee with representatives from five participating institutions has been formed and meets monthly. A Memorandum of

Agreement has been prepared between BIHM and BIMPRD for permission to conduct archaeological work on the park property.

The project will have Local, State, and National importance. Analysis of the recovered archaeological materials will be conducted at BIHM and OC. An archaeological class offered at OC will provide laboratory analysis of artifact assemblages from the site and summer field schools taught by OC archaeologists will train students in data collection, artifact analysis, and report preparation. The recovered artifact collections will be curated and permanently stored at BIHM. Museum exhibits focused on project results will be prepared by the two participating institutions and research results will be disseminated at public forums and professional conferences, as well as through progress reports and publications.

September 2014

Message from the Curator By Rick Chandler

Takayoshi Family home and store, Yama ca. 1910

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Above is an architectural sketch of the efficiency improvements presently underway at the museum. These improvements are a stop-gap measure approved by the board of directors to help staff cope with the ever increasing number of visitors, project volunteers, educational programs, meetings and activities. Longer range solutions are also being discussed.

Thoughtful design work by architect Jay Volz and board member Bernie Baker gives us more storage and workspace in the same footprint. Existing file cabinets will be replaced with lateral file drawers to save approximately ten inches of space along one wall. Much of the existing clutter will disappear into the new storage and file cabinets. Volunteer and staff workstations will occupy less space but accommodate more workers. Docent sign-up calendars will be enhanced. The Director’s office will be reduced to accommodate the copy machine while providing more work and storage space. There will be a new coat and storage closet, one small restroom and one wheelchair accessible restroom. The kitchen area will include a larger sink, a small refrigerator and a water cooler. A larger flat screen TV will be mounted on the wall next to the library door. Finally, there will be a new floor—thanks to a generous grant from the Rotary Club—a new ceiling, new lighting and enhanced ventilation.

September 2014

Efficiency Improvements In Museum Library 

 

Ansel Adams Moves To The Schoolhouse After three very successful years attracting visitors to our museum, the award-winning Ansel Adams: A Portrait of Manzanar is moving from our Bucey Gallery to become part of the Island Story exhibit in the schoolhouse. Elements of the new Port Blakely exhibit are being installed regularly in advance of our October opening. Please plan to visit us soon!

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island with quite a bit of cash intended for the purchase of a chicken ranch.

Falk sold some of his land to Nels Peterson for $45/acre in 1886. Nels sailed a daily sloop "Eve" to Seattle charging $2 a day for himself and the boat.

Also in 1886, Peter Jacobson homesteaded fifty acres to the east of Falk's property. Some twenty years later, this land was subdivided by W. E. Parker, a real estate agent. He named the land Manitou Park and built a hotel intended to draw folks from Seattle. The venture was not successful, however, and he leased the property to the Chautauqua group w h o attracted speaking programs, including William Jennings Bryan in 1917.

The hotel was taken over by the Moran School in 1914. The school began with sixteen students and faculty and grew to 125. But it failed during the depression and closed in 1933. Five years later, Joe Hill reopened the property as the Puget Sound Naval Academy. It later became the Stonehall Rehabilitative Center. It was

purchased in 1960 by Morehavens Inc. and became Messenger House. The theater on the school grounds was used for performances and, in the 1990s, was the setting for the movie "Farewell to Harry."

The mill operations at Port Madison and Port Blakely drew enough traffic that a road was built to connect them. It was called Washington Territory Road in 1865 but has now become Madison Avenue. The growth in population, of course, drove the demand for even more roads. A private road from the corner of Falk Road and Madison was built. It was only 15 feet wide and slated to be open for only 5 years. Numerous attempts were then made to fence up and

close the road. But in 1895, the settlers joined in opening the road west from the corner of Sunrise and Madison, with the right-of-way being 30 feet wide.

Commerce also grew with the population, although weakness in the economy was often a problem. Frank L. Grow opened a small store in 1890 on the waterfront on Manitou Beach but closed it after only 3 months. Several of the

people who bought land from Mr. Falk around 1890 were forced to stop their payments and let their property go. Also as a result of economic depression, the Port Madison Mill closed in 1893, never to operate again. Sometime in the 1890s, a real estate agent came to the area and began to promote the idea of a dock. The first choice for location was Skiff

Point (where a hotel was later built). But the property was in the hands of the court following Mr. Jacobson's death, and it was difficult to get the necessary permits. The second site was at Manitou Beach, which would require a long wharf that would be more expensive. A list of settlers was made, along with the amount each might be expected to contribute. However, some didn't wish to contribute and still others didn't want a dock at all. This left the site north of the Point at Rolling Bay as the one finally adopted in 1898.

The cost of the dock itself was less than it would have been at Manitou Beach, but the necessary road along the bluff and down to the dock was expensive. In all, the cost was probably higher. The dock served until 1907, when money was raised to construct the Manitou Beach dock. That made three docks near each other, as the Moran School had its own. However,

the Kitsap County Transportation Company refused to land at more than one dock. They proposed landing at Manitou Beach one month and Rolling Bay the next with the one furnishing the most traffic to be the permanent landing place. Manitou Beach won.

A Post Office was established at Rolling Bay in 1892. The name was chosen after the members of the community considered Falk Bay or Rowells Bay (after Mr. Rowells who camped along the Bay near Falk’s garden). Some thought Rowells was not a suitable person to name the Post Office after because he had a Native American wife. Instead the name Rollingbay was chosen. Martin Soonis was one of the earliest postmasters. The Post Office was moved to its present location in 1902. Lucas Rodal was postmaster from 1915

Manitou Beach Ferry Dock   BIHM Photo #344 

Moran School  ca 1925    BIHM Photo #1475 

Valley Road  BIHM Photo #340 

Rolling Bay (Continued from page 1)

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until 1940 and his son, Alfred Rodal, served from 1940 until 1973. There have been four postmasters since then. There also was a post office at the Moran School. Rollingbay is the only post office other than the one in Winslow that remains of eleven established between 1858 and 1926.

The first successful store in Rolling Bay was established by Charles Carlson in 1901 near the beach at the intersection of Falk Road and Manitou Beach Road. This building was later occupied by J. J. Arnot.

Lucas Rodal built his store up the hill from Manitou Beach at the present location of Bay Hay and Feed. Rodal delivered groceries to the neighborhood in a wheelbarrow. It is said he delivered as far north as Post Madison and the Sandspit. Rodal partnered with F. F. Weld in 1915 to build a community water system. It became the North Bainbridge Water Company and grew to become the largest private utility system on the island. It was sold the year after grandson Bob Rodal’s death in 2000. At that time, the water company served 1628 accounts. Bob Rodal also established a Chrysler automobile dealership at the northeast corner of Sunrise Drive and Valley Road. Bob Rodal was a charter member and fifty-year board member of American Marine Bank. Bob attended the University of Washington for two years and remained a staunch Husky supporter.

In 1909 money was raised and a public hall was built on land donated by Ed Rodal. This building is now part of the Presbyterian Church. In 1914 an elementary school PTA was formed. A library was built at the corner of Falk Road and Valley Road. Among other fundraisers, gunny sacks were collected and sold. The library had its ups and downs and when schools were consolidated

in 1929, a library association was formed to provide funding. In the 1930s, the library was open on Saturday afternoons for two hours. Rodney Waldron worked as librarian for four years while attending school. He reported that he intended to read every book in the library, but could not do it because additional books were continuously being donated. He also reported that he was paid the sum of ten cents an hour.

There was a shipyard built near the bottom of Falk Road. The shipyard reportedly built a boat to haul explosives for DuPont.

Typical of many places around the

Island, the beach at Rolling Bay became a popular place to have summer cabins. Jeanie Waldron remembers summers spent there in the ‘50s and ‘60s when there would be dozens of youngsters spending the summer on the beach digging clams, fishing and just “hanging out.”

Sources for this article came from BIHM’s Subject Files, “Picture Bainbridge,” “History of Bainbridge Island,” “Bainbridge Through Bifocals,” “Glimpses of Bainbridge,” “Bainbridge Landings” and “An Historical Sketch of Rolling Bay, Washington.”

Article by Hank Helm, Executive Director, Bainbridge Island Historical Museum. Editing by Linda Benedict.

Rollingbay Post Office 1910    BIHM Photo #301 

Rolling Bay Library    BIHM Photo #1732 

Manitou Beach Store & Shipyard    BIHM Photo #822 

Rolling Bay (Continued from page 6)

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High School Students On June 28th regional high school students from the Bridging Communities project presented an update at the Yonder conference center on their history of the Exclusion Memorial. Soon the students will have a new website which will feature what they learned from Islanders they interviewed for their film. Since filming, the designer of the Exclusion Memorial, Johnpaul Jones, won a Humanities Award presented by President Obama.

College Students NW College of Art & Design students, in a Cultural Survey class, interviewed Katy Curtis about the Historical Museum’s role in the community, and interviewed Lilly Kodama and Kay Nakao about the role of BIJAC in our community.

Journalism Students from Afar Study Bainbridge Review Journalists from eight Southeast Asian countries visited to learn about the role the Bainbridge Review played during World War II. The Review journalists at that time were not only sharing stories from neighbors in Manzanar or Minidoka, they were also printing letters to the editor with opinions from all sides. Powerful

editorials were written continuously through the end of the war, speaking out against the mass incarceration of Americans of Japanese descent.

The 20 young journalism students that came to the Historical Museum on July 16 were from Sri Lanka, Nepal, India and Bangladesh and were

sponsored by SUSI (Study of the United States Institute for Student Leaders on New Media in Journalism). Over the course of five weeks, the program’s goal

is that these student leaders experience U.S. culture, expand their understanding of civic engagement and service, explore journalism and all types of media. They met with the Seattle City Council where

they learned how to make conversation in a public setting for business purposes and learned how to set up community programs like recycling, community gardens and food banks. The group that came to the museum was in the fourth week of their experiences and still enthusiastic. Haritha Thilakarathne was interested in the Agate Point

Petroglyph because there are rock carvings in Sri Lanka too, and he is aware of the value of leaving the carvings in their original location.

Kripa Segdel, of Nepal, was interested in the library. As a photojournalist, she also liked photos of where the Island’s Japanese Americans

had lived before, during and after WWII. Medha Kohli was interested in Lilly

Kodama’s story because her grandparents had to leave, lost everything and had to

go to a new place when India was divided. She was interested that Japanese American families returning to Bainbridge most often had friends that had paid the taxes and kept their property for them.

After the museum, the students were off to have lunch with YES magazine interns. Mary Woodward then led an in-depth discussion about her parents and the Review’s courageous editorial stance during WWII and the significance of the newspapers’ contribution toward keeping the Island community engaged in conversations with “neighbors who are away for a while,” as Milly Woodward often said.

Teacher Training Educulture partnered with the Historical Museum for their annual teacher training in August. Through our “Only What We Can Carry“ project, participants visit key heritage sites, follow the lives of Bainbridge Island Japanese American families, and hear stories directly from family members and friends. The immigrant experiences is brought to life - starting life over in America, establishing livelihoods, and having families. The emotionally moving stories of WWII are

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Education and Outreach by Katy Curtis & Carol Elliott

Interna onal journalism students with  volunteers Lilly Kodama and Carol Ellio . 

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shared in very personal and impactful ways. Teachers spend the day exploring the historic Suyematsu Farm, Bainbridge Gardens, Bainbridge Island Historical Museum, and the Exclusion Memorial. Direct dialogue with Bainbridge Islanders whose families lived through WWII and the Exclusion are experiences that will never be forgotten. Teachers are planning to bring their students on future trips, to share this rich local experience.

Special Tours and Partnerships The Historical Museum was asked to partner with the WA Historical Society and Wing Luke Museum for the 2014 Youth Summit. Twenty high school and college students visited many historic sites with presentations from Jon Garfunkel at Suyematsu Farm, Donna Harui at Bainbridge Gardens and Clarence Moriwaki at the Exclusion Memorial.

On August 11th, Naoko Ulstein from Seattle Nikkei Horizons brought 30 people, including Fumiko Hayashida (103 yrs. old), to Bainbridge Island. BIHM docents were requested to guide tours at Sakai School Arts and Traditions Exhibits and at the Exclusion Memorial.

Family Pilgrimages A colleague of Dr. Frank Kitamoto, Dr. Domoto, brought his extended family for their first visit to the Historical Museum and the Exclusion Memorial. Dr. Domoto’s group was one of several families who arranged in advance to make pilgrimages

to the Exclusion Memorial as part of their summer family holiday or reunion.

The Arima family discovered lots of family relations in our collection of Bainbridge yearbooks.

Local Events Thanks to board member Bill Covert for leading the

Doggie Diner effort on July 3rd at the Street Dance. Visitors enjoyed chips, dogs and kids dancing to the DJ close by.

Bob Woodman and Karen Wilson were sittin’ pretty in Bob’s grand ol’ truck for the parade on July 4th!

BIHM volunteers Monica Penninger and Mary Curtis worked

with BIMA Staff Jeanine Greco at the Museums’ 4th of July booth.

Summer Student Volunteer Atsuhiro Kurimoto, summer intern from Japan, spent two months and helped with BIHM programs while he worked for the National Park Service at the Exclusion Memorial. He said he will never forget the summer he turned 20 here on Bainbridge, being a part of the Bainbridge Island community and learning our history.

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Are you a teacher or do you lead a student group? Do you know students who would like to earn Service Learning Credit or volunteer hours? Do you have a group that would like to visit the museum and have a private tour? It can be arranged by

calling the museum or by emailing Katy Curtis outreach@bainbridgehistory.org!!

Education and Outreach (continued)

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Special Gifts In Memory of Frank Kitamoto Bill Nakao and Pam Harrison Anne Stern Honoring 60 Years of Marriage For George and Delores Bussell Lilly and Mits Kodama One Call For All Donors reported by One Call For All from 3/16 to 8/31 Peggy Drew Jeff Brown Tim & Missy Goss Russell & Judy Heglund Geneva Lowe Nicki & Mick McMahan Melissa Weakly Matching Contributions Microsoft Corporation Johnson, William IBM Corporation Sjolseth, Jack and Karen In Kind Donations Rite Aid Pharmacy Reliable Storage Bainbridge Self Storage Bainbridge Disposal Steven G. Schwager, DDS Westside Pizza Custom Printing Annual Appeal Aexel, Carol King and John Albrecht, Richard and Constance Allen, Rebecca Alloin, Jacques Anderson, Barbara

Ballaine, Dave and Heather Beierle, Karen and Tom Braff, Susannah Buehner, Josephine Bussell, George and Delores Cain, Jacqueline Cairns, Phyllis Callaham, Priscilla Campbell, Patricia and Robert Carlson, Patricia Chapel, Faith and Jim Cheadle, Ralph Clevenger, Velda Coleman, Fern Cooper, Lynn and John Cramer, Ty and Romein, Steve Daugherty, Kathy and Robert Davison, John and Jane Eagan, Robert and Judy Egaas, Pat Egashira, Tomi and Henry Ellis, Edmund and Joanne Englund, Bernice Eshom, Sharon Farley, Marilyn and Elton Fowler, Daniel and Patricia Frost, Ted and Alice Furlong, Constance and Clement Gale, Maradel K. Grant, Grace and Tierney, Dennis Gustafson, Meredith Guthrie, Donald and Janet Hafer, Roth and Maily Hall, Mary Hallett, Nina and Darrell Halvorsen, M. C. Hart, Carolyn Harui, Christina Herren, Jan Hudson, Mark & Joan Ikegami, Frances Jacobs, Margot

Jensen, Kay and Carl Kerr, Omie and Larry King, Edgar and Iris Kirts, Richard Kitayama, Ted Knutsen, Peter and Joyce Kondracke, Morton & Marguerite Kowalski, Barbara Kramer, Judith Kusaka, Toru Le Dorze, Juliet Sears and Philippe Leik, Robert Loverich, Gary and Betty Maas, Claudia Magana, Janet and Brian Marshall, Emmet and Gail Marten, Norman and Karen Mattson, Vince Meacham, Colleen and William Milberg, John & Justine Modern Collision Rebuild Montgomery, Alison Mounger, Glenn and Mary Murdock, Roy and Judi Nakao, Kazuko Nakao, William and Harrison, Pamela Nakata, Judy and Wayne Nelson, John & Benedict, Linda Okada, Eileen Oliver, Robert and Laurel Ostrand, Bob Paup, Everett and Andrea Piper, Joan and Jay Prahm, Ole and Patricia Price, Andrew Rana, Kathryn and Rana Reed, Evellyn Robison, Merrill & Sally Sakuma, Gary Schmid, Charles and Linda

Shopes, Will and Sandy Sievertson, Ann Skommesa, Patty Stanton, Janice Sterrett, Jill Stollar, Leonel and Ilse Sutton, Dwight and Edith Thompson, Diane Thorne, David and Kathleen Walton, Stuart and Mary Jane Warberg, James and Barbara Watanabe, Matsue and Samuel Whalen, Michael and Sandra Whalley, Doug & Janet Wilsie, Carolyn Yates, Michael and Hughes, Kathy Seattle Foundation GiveBIG Harrison, Cynthia and David Isonaka, Diane and Galas, David Olson, Eileen Seattle Foundation Rolling Bay Lives & Lies Thanks to everyone who bought tickets and joined us at this fundraiser, and especially the following who “raised their paddles” to support the work of the museum: Allen, Cathy Alward, Barbara Benton, Paul and Megan Clevenger, Velda Cole, Teri Curtis, Kathryn & Schabert, Brad Davis, Christine Dubois, Everett and Bernetta Fowler, Daniel and Patricia Geraghty, Joan James, Karen

Kellerman, Jean Leavitt, Dena Leech, Carolyn Miyasato, Ellen Penninger, Monica & Dave Sams, Janet and Bill Sandri, Piero Shryock, Richard and Julie Thatcher, Thomas & Susan Thorne, David and Kathleen Wilson, Karen Wyman, Bob and Pat Zelus, Marsha

New Volunteers

Linda Benedict has begun helping with publication editing. Bob Royce is a professional librarian who has begun to reorganize our research library. Sydney Schneider is helping with volunteer scheduling, recordkeeping and activity coordination. Bob Wright is helping with library Subject and BIO files and with Collections.

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THANK YOU GENEROUS DONORS!

The donations above were recorded from our last newsletter through August 31,

2014. If we have inadvertently omitted

any donors we sincerely apologize,

and please let us know.

THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS! BIHM runs on the energy of our volunteers. Our amazing group of volunteers make all our operations possible. We can

accomplish even more if you can donate a few hours every month. You may pick from a wide variety of tasks that can be matched with almost every skill or interest. Where would your efforts make a difference and help us make history?

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THANK YOU BUSINESS SPONSORS! Please help us thank these generous community institutions for their support of BIHM.

VOLUNTEER HELP NEEDED TO... welcome visitors from all over the world catalog photos and artifacts host school, community, and tour groups

design brochures & graphics teach about Island history digitize subject and biographical files maintain files and records maintain computer software and hardware create marketing, membership communication and publicity materials

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A Presidential Visit to Bainbridge Island

An Evening with Thomas Jefferson

Wednesday, November 19th Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Auditorium

Hors d’oeuvres and beverages 6:15 p.m. Program 7—9 p.m.

Tickets $100/Person Clay Jenkinson, host of National Public Radio’s Thomas Jefferson Hour, presents an entertaining and thought-provoking program employing the Chautauqua method—speaking and answering questions in costume as Thomas Jefferson. Jenkinson is one of the most sought-after humanities scholars in the United States and was a historical adviser featured on Ken Burns’ new film The Roosevelts.

Seating is very limited, so reserve your space early by contacting us in one of the following ways:

In person at BI Historical Museum Via PayPal at bainbridgehistory.org/events.aspx by phone at 206-842-2773