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Vol. 11, No. 2 Bainbridge Public Library, 1270 Madison Ave., Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Fall 2008 Mark your calendar These events take place in the library unless otherwise stated. Saturday, October 25 • Bainbridge Island Living Library: Check out a New Point of View 9:00 a.m.-noon Sunday, October 26 • BPL Speakers Forum. Mary Woodward presents “In Defense of Our Neighbors: the Walt and Milly Woodward Story” 4pm (Cost, $10 at the door) 1 2 3 4 Tuesday, October 28 • Click! Computer Class. Open Lab 10-11:30 a.m. • Friends of the Library Book Sale 10 a.m.-3 • Inherit the Wind, BPA 7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 30 • Estate Planning Series: Financial Planning for Retirement 9:00-11:00 a.m. • “Why do we (still) read To Kill a Mockingbird” with author David Guterson 7 p.m. • Spanish Language Book Discussion: El pais bajo mi piel by Gioconda Belli 7 p.m. Sunday, November 2 • “Trial by Fork : Formal Victorian Dining Demystified” with Tames Alan 2 p.m. Tuesday, November 4 5 6 7 8 • Click! Computer Class. Internet 101 (Preregister at the Library) 10 a.m. Wednesday, November 5 • Bainbridge Library Book Group: Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones 7 p.m. FRIday, November 7 • Film showing: Mostly Martha 3 p.m. Saturday, November 8 • Friends of the Library Book Sale 10 a.m.-3 Sunday, November 9 • BPL Speakers Forum. Hugh Spitzer presents “History of the Washington State Constitution” 4 p.m. (Cost, $10 at the door) Tuesday, November 11 • Library Closed for Veterans’ Day Wednesday, November 12 9 10 11 12 • Low Vision Support Group 1-3 p.m. Thursday, November 13 • Friends of the Library Book Sale 1-4 p.m. • A Good Yarn knitting and book group – Meet your friends at the library bring your work in progress 7-9 p.m. Do you know these people? They’re just a dozen of volunteers, and regular library patrons with a variety of Tuesday, November 18 • Book Discussion Group at the BI Senior the hundreds of Islanders who visit the Bainbridge interests (For more about them, please turn to Page 15.) Center 1:30 p.m. Public Library every week. They include staff members, (Library file photos) • Click! Computer Class. Internet 201 (Preregister at the Library) 2-3:30 p.m. • Field’s End Writers’ Roundtable: Warren Read explores “How do you go from vignettes to a meaningful memoir?” 7pm Everybody’s talking about— Wednesday, November 19 • Travelogue: “Odyssey Marco Polo” presented by Harry Rutstein. Co-sponsored by The Traveler Bookstore 7:30 p.m. The month of the book Thursday, November 20 Islanders of all ages are reading Harper thought-provoking comments and Islanders explore common stereotypes and different • Estate Planning Series: Charitable Planning Lee’s classic To Kill a Mockingbird. viewed the 1967 film In the Heat of the viewpoints in a structured environment at the Techniques, Tips on Getting Started with The official kickoff to this month’s One Night and discussed it afterward. first-ever Bainbridge Island Living Library. Personal Planning. 9:00-11:00 a.m. Community, One Book events was held Two Mockingbird events are scheduled At a Living Library, community members • Spanish Language Book Discussion 7 p.m. October 3, with a special Island Theatre for later this month. On Saturday, October are invited to “check out” a conversation with Friday, November 21 play reading of “Inherit the Wind”. Several 25, Islanders are invited to a Bainbridge a person who may seem, at least from the • Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society: book groups have discussed the book, Island Living Library: Check Out a New outside, very different from themselves. “Computer programs for the Genealogist” with Claire Smith 10-noon. Martha Bayley talked about what makes a Point of View, from 9 a.m. until noon, at Founded in 2000 by Danish book a classic, and the Lynwood Theatre the library meeting room. antiviolence campaigner Ronni Abergel, Saturday, November 22 showed the film To Kill a Mockingbird, “You never really understand a person who will be present at the October 25 • “Five things you don’t know about Yo-Yo Ma, the story of the world’s worst explorer, and with Gregory Peck. until you consider things from his point event, and now active in more than a dozen other adventures in writing biography” with Senior citizens have read and discussed of view,” says Atticus Finch in To Kill a countries, the Living Library makes its author Jim Whiting. For all ages. 2 p.m. the book, and parents have talked with Mockingbird. North American debut this month. Tuesday, November 25 children about it. A panel discussion, In the spirit of Harper Lee’s classic, As an official launch site, Bainbridge • Click! Computer Class. Open Lab. 10 a.m. “Cotton, Southern Comfort, and Jim Crow: the Bainbridge Library offers a unique Wednesday, November 26 The Culture of Harper Lee’s South” drew opportunity for Bainbridge Islanders to Continued on Page 2 • Library Closes at 5:30 p.m. for Thanksgiving Holiday Thursday & friday Also in this issue: November 27 & 28 • Library Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday Books, books, more books...... Pages 13 & 14 Wednesday, December 3 • Bainbridge Library Book Group: Shade of Travel: The home of Beatrix Potter...... Page 12 My Own Tree by Sheila Williams 7 p.m. Continued on page 2 It’s One Call For All time again...... Page 10 People page 2 Fall 2008 Field’s End offers winter classes
By cindy vandersluis
Writers will find a wide range of topics to choose from this fall and winter at Field’s End. Some of the area’s most successful authors are set to share their approach to genres such as youth fiction, writing about what you love, and creating an original one-act play. Registration is required for each course. Forms may be found in the lobby of the Bainbridge Public Library or downloaded at www.fieldsend.org. For questions, write the Field’s End Registrar at [email protected]. Tuition assistance is available for all Field’s End classes through the Jack Olsen Memorial Writer’s Tuition Assistance Fund. Suzanne Selfors will lead a four- session course, “Writing the Middle Grade Novel”, on four consecutive Winter class instructors Mondays – February 23 and March 2, 9 and 16, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the library’s for Field’s End (left to right) large meeting room. Tuition is $160. The class is limited to 12 participants. Elizabeth Heffron, “The Play’s the Thing”; Greg Registration opens on December 8. Atkinson, Victoria Josslin, and Nick O’Connell, Three Puget Sound experts share “Food, Travel, & the Arts”; and Suzanne Selfors, writing fundamentals in “Food, Travel “Writing the Middle Grade Novel”. and The Arts; Bringing What You Love to Life on the Page.” Chef and commentator Greg Atkinson, travel writer Nick O’Connell and art critic Victoria Josslin will lead this class on three consecutive Mondays: January 19 and 26, and February 2, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the main library meeting room. Tuition —Photo by Kate deVeaux is $120; registration begins December 8. an interest in stories and theater as a writes the “Taste” column for Pacific of writing and theatrical exercises that Finally, join instructor Elizabeth child. After graduating with university Northwest Magazine in the Seattle Times. illustrate the basic principles of dramatic Heffron for “The Play’s the Thing.” honors in theater and film, she received a Nicholas O’Connell, M.F.A., Ph.D., structure. Outside readers will choose two a six-session course to be held on master’s degree in communications from is the author of On Sacred Ground: The plays to be produced by BPA as staged Saturdays, January 24, 31 and February the University of Washington. Once her Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest readings later in the spring. All students 7, 14, 21 and 28, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 children were in school, her passion for Literature (U.W. Press, 2003) and At the from the class are invited to observe, and p.m. at the Bainbridge Library. Tuition is writing was reawakened in 2002. She Field’s End: Interviews with 22 Pacific perhaps audition for, the rehearsals and $360; class is limited to 12 participants. is living her maxim: “Talent helps, but Northwest Writers (U.W. Press, 1998), workshops featuring the selected plays. Registration begins December 8. determination is mandatory.” among other collections. He contributes Elizabeth Heffron’s plays have been The three-person team of Atkinson, to Newsweek, Gourmet, Saveur, Outside, produced in the U.S. and Canada, including O’Connell and Josslin will blend lecture, GO, National Geographic Adventure and Seattle, New York and Vancouver, B.C. Her About the classes writing exercises and discussion as they Conde Nast Traveler, along with other work includes New Patgonia, produced by Using popular middle grade novels share their approach to writing about publications. O’Connell teaches writing the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Moses Lake as examples, Selfors will explore the their passions. The class is designed for classes for the Writer’s Workshop. Approaching PI, and Mitzi’s Abortion, unique aspects of this genre for the those who wish to enrich their memoirs, Victoria Josslin has been a freelance which just received a world-premiere reader age 8 – 12. Writers of all levels are essays and fiction, or simply compose a art critic for the Seattle P-I and has production at Seattle’s ACT Theater. A welcome, but a completed first chapter letter to friends. written for Reflex, Art Access, Aorta recipient of a playwriting fellowship from of a middle grade novel is required. The Greg Atkinson is a leading voice and American Art Quarterly. In 1999, Artist Trust/WSAC, she is a principal class will combine lecture and workshop, in Pacific Northwest culinary trends. Josslin founded Artdish, an art forum for playwright at Seattle Dramatists and during which chapters will be read by the Regularly featured in radio, television the Puget Sound area. She has taught art teaches playwriting for ACT’s Young instructor and all class members before and print, he is the author of several history to docents-in-training at Bellevue Playwrights Program. discussion in the workshop sessions. cookbooks, a lively food commentator, Art Museum, and on Bainbridge Island Students should mail one copy of the and can be heard weekly on “The Beat” she has edited Exhibition magazine chapter (no more than eight double-spaced on KUOW, Seattle’s NPR affiliate. for the Bainbridge Island Arts and Continued from front pages) along with their application. Once He was featured in the 2005 season Humanities Council, as well as serving the number of students is set, each person of the James Beard award-winning as director of education and information Month of the book will be notified about the number of PBS series Chefs A’field, and was for Bainbridge Arts and Crafts. She Island will play an important role in copies to bring to the first class. a chef instructor at Seattle Culinary currently writes for Glass Quarterly. bringing the Living Library—with Suzanne Selfors’s novels include Academy. He is the recipient of many Heffron’s six-session craft course will its message of diversity, respect, and To Catch a Mermaid, Saving Juliet, food journalism awards, including the guide students in writing an original one- tolerance—to the United States. and the forthcoming Fortune’s Magic James Beard Foundation’s M.F.K. Fisher act play. Not only will students generate The Living Library program is co- sponsored by the Bainbridge Island Arts Farm and Coffee House Angel. Raised Distinguished Writing Award 2000. A material, they will also have a chance and Humanities Council. Local program on Bainbridge Island, she developed contributing editor to Food Arts, he also to get it on its feet. Classes will consist partners include the Bainbridge Island Historical Society, the City of Bainbridge Island, Just Know Coalition, the Bainbridge Continued from front page Island Japanese American Community, and Helpline House. Funding support is provided by the Bainbridge Island Arts Mark your calendar and Humanities Council and a grant from Thursday, December 4 Saturday, December 13 Saturday & Sunday Humanities Washington. The “Living • Friends of the Library Book Sale 1-4 p.m. • Friends of the Library Book Sale 10 a.m.-3 December 20 & 21 Library” concept is used with permission Tuesday, December 9 Sunday, December 14 • Island Theatre Play Reading at the Library: from The Living Library Network • Film Discussion Group. Title The Day the • Winter Storytelling at the Library 3 p.m. TBA 7:30 p.m. Organization: http://living-library.org. Earth Stood Still 7 p.m. Tuesday, December 16 Tuesday, December 23 Wednesday, December 10 • Book Discussion at the BI Senior Center, 1:30pm • Friends of the Library Book Sale 10 a.m.-3 Guterson to speak • Low Vision Support Group 1-3 p.m. • Field’s End Writers’ Roundtable: George Wednesday & thursday Why do we (still) read To Kill a Shannon explores “Does size really matter? December 24 & 25 Mockingbird? David Guterson will talk Thursday, December 11 Age of reader – length of book” 7pm • A Good Yarn knitting and book group – • Library Closed for Christmas Holiday about Harper Lee’s novel at the Bainbridge bring your work in progress 7-9 p.m. Friday, December 19 Library on Thursday, October 30, at 7 p.m. • Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society: Show Island resident Guterson is the & tell about your family research 10-noon. bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars and, most recently, The Other. Fall 2008 page 3 People, Events Roundtables feature Simons, Read, Shannon
By cindy vandersluis
On October 21, local author Robin Simons introduces the Roundtable with the question, “So Much Material, Where’s the Real Story?” Bainbridge Island resident Warren Read addresses the topic “How Do You Go From Vignettes to a Meaningful Memoir?” at the November 18 session. The final Roundtable of 2008, held December 16, will feature children’s author George Shannon asking, “Does Size Really Matter? Age of Reader – Length of Book.” Robin Simons is the author of nine books, including Test Drive Your Dream Job; A Step by Step Guide to Finding or Creating the Work You Love, co-authored with Brian Kurth and published this year. Elementary school teacher and debut author Warren Read began a genealogy project that eventually led to his book The Lyncher in Me; A Search for Redemption in the Face of History, the story of a racist ancestor who Robin Simons Warren Read George Shannon led a lynching mob in Duluth, Minnesota in the 1920s. He is currently working on his second book. Roundtable format The monthly Roundtable, free and open to writers Author and children’s writing advocate George If you have an idea for a Writers’ Roundtable topic of all levels and interests, takes place the third Tuesday Shannon has written more than 30 books for children, or guest author, send an e-mail to [email protected] of each month. The guest author introduces the topic, including picture books, folk tales and “puzzlers.” (please include Writers’ Roundtable in the subject line), and then participants join in a Q & A period followed Tippy-Toe Chick, Go! was named a Charlotte Zolotow or write to Field’s End at the library, 1270 Madison Ave. by a large group discussion. The evening closes with Award Honor Book for 2004, given for outstanding North, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110. socializing, coffee, and cookies. writing in children’s picture books. Field’s End, the writing community affiliated with the nonprofit Bainbridge Public Library, conducts the monthly Roundtables. Additional support comes from the City of Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Fund, administered by the Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council. For other Field’s End programs go Mignon Fogarty will Author programs in to www.fieldsend.org. speak at conference late October Some important author events round out the Month of Field’s End Calendar Mignon Fogarty the Book. The Suquamish Tribe, West Sound Independent These events take place in the library, will be keynote speaker Booksellers Association, and Kitsap Library Foundation unless otherwise stated. at the Fourth Annual bring popular Northwest author Sherman Alexie to the Tuesday, October 21 Field’s End Writers’ Suquamish Old Tribal Center on Thursday, October 23, at Field’s End Writers’ Roundtable. Robin Simons discusses: Conference Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Plan to arrive early, park at the casino, and take “So much material, where’s the real story?” 7 p.m. April 18, 2009 at Kiana a shuttle bus to the Tribal Center. Tuesday, November 18 Lodge, on the shores of For young people, Kitsap Regional Library and Field’s End Writers’ Roundtable. Warren Read Agate Passage. Barnes & Noble sponsor the children’s poet laureate, Jack discusses: “How do you go from vignettes to a Fogarty is the Prelutsky, on Saturday, October 25, at the Central Kitsap meaningful memoir?” 7 p.m. creator and host of High School auditorium. Prelutsky frequently combines Monday, December 8 the popular podcast, music and poetry in his programs, and is one of the most Registration opens for Winter Classes. Grammar Girl, popular children’s entertainers in the United States. Info at www.fieldsend.org. named one of the best Tuesday, December 16 podcasts of 2007 by Mignon Fogarty Field’s End Writers’ Roundtable. George Shannon discusses: “Does size really matter? Age of reader, iTunes. She is also the —Photo by Sarah Shatz founder and managing News Briefs length of book” 7 p.m. director of Quick and Dirty Tips. A magazine writer, technical writer and entrepreneur, she has created a THE NEXT ISSUE of the Bainbridge Library sensation with her friendly approach to grammar rules News will be published in February 2009. Deadline for and word choice guidelines that can confound even the news articles will be January 10, 2009 (but December best writers, using memory tricks to help writers recall 2008 submissions are preferred). Advertising space may and apply troublesome grammar rules. Fogarty has be reserved now for all 2009 issues. served as a senior editor and producer at a number of THE BAINBRIDGE Genealogical Society meets health and science web sites. She has a B.A. in English monthly at the library to help people research their from the University of Washington in Seattle and an family histories. For more information about the group, M.S. in biology from Stanford University. phone Priscilla Greenlees at 842-0210. THE DAYTIME Library Book Group has changed its meeting time for 2009. Those interested in joining the Grammar Girl was named one of group should speak with librarian Julie O’Neill at the library reference desk. the best podcasts of 2007. REMINDER! Holds on requested books are now limited to seven days. (Keeping books circulating holds library costs down.) The companion book to her podcast and audiobook, Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, reached the New York Times paperback nonfiction bestseller list in August 2008. Fogarty’s awards include 2007 Best of Non-fiction Audiobooks of the Year – iTunes, and the 2007 Winner Best Education Podcast – Podcast Awards. CNN.com says: “Grammar lessons often are associated with high school drudgery…but an Arizona technical writer has turned the seemingly dry subject into a popular podcast.” “Your Full Service Paint Store” The Washington Post reports, “creator Mignon Fogarty has an engaging style that doesn’t make you feel open sundays! bad about misusing the word “badly.”” Open Monday - Friday 7:30 - 6 And, from The Wall Street Journal: “So why does the Sunday 10 - 2 show consistently rank in the top 40 podcasts on iTunes? The 206-842-2227 show is well produced…‘Grammar Girl’ found a narrow 937 Hildebrand Lane NE • Bainbridge Island niche that a surprising number of people are interested in.” Opinion, People page 4 Fall 2008 Partnerships serve library patrons well
By verda averill Library News Editor
In his column on this page Val Tollefson, Bainbridge Library Board president, reflects on the Bainbridge Public Library’s role as the cultural heart of Bainbridge Island. He eloquently expresses the important role played by our library volunteers and donors, and you’ll read more about them throughout this paper. The Bainbridge Public Library is an architectural gem, surrounded by elegant gardens, and it has become to many of us almost a second home. But it is only one of two major partners that combine to provide our outstanding library services. Newcomers to this area often don’t understand the connection, and many long-time residents have forgotten about it. So let’s pause a moment to consider the important role the Kitsap Regional Library system plays in our lives. Bainbridge Library Board members Val Tollefson and George Edensword-Breck are reading the October With its headquarters in Bremerton, the nine-library featured book To Kill a Mockingbird KRL system serves communities throughout the county. It —Photo by Rebecca Judd provides our libraries’ basic circulating materials (books, DVDs, etc.), pays the salaries of our excellent staff, and supplies us with computers and technical services – just for a start. The children’s summer reading programs are Lessons learned created by KRL, as are many special programs. Without the partnership of Kitsap Regional Library, our Bainbridge library building would be A message from the board president virtually an empty shell, with no staff to serve us. Most libraries are owned and operated by one entity, By val tollefson of the dedicated professional library staff, there are Library Board President and taxed by that entity (often a city). volunteers shelving and repairing books, conducting Here the two major library partners are funded in classes, organizing programs, attending to the beautiful When I joined the Bainbridge Public Library Board, different ways: Kitsap Regional Library receives a very grounds, and seeing to the myriad little details that I had very little idea what it was all about. I only knew small portion of our property taxes, while the Bainbridge keep the library the welcoming place that it is. Other that my friend Steve Larson had asked me to join, and Public Library was built – and is still maintained – volunteers are hard at work planning for the future, that I really liked libraries. entirely by donations. No taxes have ever been levied to so that our library remains the gem that it is. And still Seven years later, there are probably some who still pay for the building. others are out there trying in various ways to raise the think that I have very little idea of what it is all about. That’s why several times a year Bainbridge board money needed to keep the lights and heat on. But I have learned a lot, let me assure you, about our members appeal to all of us to give what we can to The Friends of the Library contribute regularly library, about the precious relationship we have with maintain the building. and greatly through their famous book sales. Thanks Bainbridge Islanders, about the role of the library in the We may hear less about the funding needs of Kitsap to the habits of many voracious Bainbridge readers, life of the community, about volunteerism, and about Regional Library, but they are critical too, especially in the Friends are building an endowment to help sustain fundraising. Here is just a little of what I have learned. a depressed economy. That’s why many turned out for a the library of the future. And of course, many of you I know that the Bainbridge Public Library is the fund-raising event earlier this month in Bremerton, and donate to the library regularly and generously through cultural heart of Bainbridge Island. I know that because why you’ll be hearing more about efforts to build the our annual appeal, and through your designation many of you have told me so. It is clear from your young KRL Foundation. of Bainbridge Public Library as a recipient of your support of and participation in the many and varied The important thing for us to understand, as we donation to the One Call campaign. library programs, such as Field’s End, the Speakers enjoy the services of our library staff and volunteers, These troubled economic times pose a particular Forum, the Estate Planning Series, the Library News, is that we are fortunate to benefit from a strong challenge to Bainbridge Public Library, and to the and the many wonderful programs sponsored by Kitsap partnership that is now a half-century old. many other worthy non-profit organizations serving Regional Library. Seeing the public meeting room at Like friends of a married couple celebrating a golden Bainbridge Island. In times like these, we have to the library in constant demand by groups such as the anniversary, we celebrate and nurture the relationship of redouble our efforts to remind you that our need for Genealogical Society and the VIP group, and used the two strong partners. your direct support persists year after year. We need to for children’s story time, dramatic readings, travel And while we’re at it, let’s pause to appreciate our connect with you, so that supporting your local library programs, writers’ roundtables, opera previews, and the many other library partners: the groups who rent the is as much a part of your life as looking for healthy food discussion of the great issues of our time underscores meeting room and present outstanding plays, music, for your family. how central the library is to our lives. travel lectures, and other events; the Field’s End writers; As my mother would have said, these past seven years I know that none of this would happen for the Friends of the Library; the school teachers and have been a real experience. It has been an experience for Bainbridge Public Library without two key ingredients: parents who help out in the children’s library – and so which I am very grateful. Thank you for the opportunity, volunteers and donors. At last count, the library has over many more. and thank you all for your past – and your generous future 200 active volunteers. Every day, with the guidance You’ll be reading more about them throughout the – support of Bainbridge Public Library. coming year. We are grateful for all of them. Watch for these coming book sales 1270 Madison Avenue, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Friends of the Library book sales are scheduled Tuesday, October 28, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Produced by Verda Averill Communications Editor and publisher: Verda Averill through the end of this year. Watch the coming Saturday, November 8, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Contributing writers: Martha Bayley, Marite Butners, Gail announcements (and handy book marks) for early Thursday, November 13, 1 to 4 p.m. Christensen, Gail Goodrick, Rebecca Judd, Pat Miller, Julie 2009 sales. Tuesday, November 25, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. O’Neill, Carmine Rau, Suzanne Selfors, Margaret Trent, Cindy Thursday, December 4, to 4 p.m. Vandersluis, Elsa Watson, Susan Wiggs, Barbara Winther. Bookkeeping: Lois “Pete” Glosten. For more information check the Saturday, December 13, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sponsored by the Bainbridge Public Library Board, a Website: www.bifriends.org Tuesday, December 23, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. non-profit corporation, and supported by local advertisers. Library Board members: Marc Adam, Janet Brookes, George Edensword-Breck, Joan Gardiner, Caryl Grosch, Kevin Hawkins, Jim Laughlin, George Shannon, Jenifer Shipley, Val Tollefson, Delight Willing, John Sinclair, Brian McKenna, Ruth Coates, Mary Guterson, Elaine von Rosenstiel, Pamela McClaran, Patricia Miller. Jill Jean is Kitsap Regional Library director; Rebecca Judd, branch manager; Althea Paulson, KRL board representative. Fall 2008 page 5 People, Books
The Pushcart Prize You can score one for the little guys
By rebecca judd Bill Henderson, the founder of the Henderson, however, was not one are bound into an anthology which is Bainbridge Branch Manager Pushcart Prize, became interested in to forget his roots. With the Pushcart published the following fall. Often an small-press publishing when his own Press on sound financial footing, he anthology contains 50-75 new works from Writing a book is tough business; novel, The Galapagos Kid was roundly sought other ways to encourage talented a wide variety of promising and established writing a book that someone will dismissed by the commercial publishing authors and the small-press houses who authors. publish—now there’s the respect that’s business. Forgoing the vanity presses, he published them. In 1976, this passion made a calamity of many an aspiring and his uncle founded Nautilus Books led to the first Pushcart Prize anthology, John Irving, Raymond Carver, artist’s life. in the early 1970s determined to become a collection of short stories, poems, John Updike, and Joyce Carol Oates. Faced with such rejection, who household names. essays, and literary “whatnots” edited These are only a few of the many wouldn’t hide their Great American Although this venture folded after by a distinguished board of writers and writers who have graced the pages of Novel in the back of a musty closet? only one “Summer/Fall” season, the editors. Pushcart Prize anthologies. Now in Fortunately for us, such writers as experience inspired Henderson to write a The criteria for selection remain its 33rd year (volume XXXIII is due Upton Sinclair, Walt Whitman, and second book whose time had come: The straightforward. Each fall, the Pushcart out in December), this highly regarded Edgar Allan Poe had sufficient conviction Publish-It Yourself Handbook - Literary Press invites nominations for works collection has become a beacon of to fund the small-press printings of their Tradition and How-to (1973). Armed published (or awaiting publication) in the exciting new writing in an often crowded first works. Today, they might have been with a good idea, contributing chapters previous calendar year. These nominations literary landscape. contenders for the Pushcart Prize, an from the likes of Anais Nin, and a may come from small-press publishing annual award that recognizes outstanding positive review from the New York Times, houses or from the Pushcart Prize Overcoming his own early calamities, work printed by the myriad of small- the Handbook became an overnight contributing editors. When the editors Henderson has made a career out of press houses across the US and around success. His newly founded Pushcart have made selections in their respective encouraging new literary talent—and we the world. Press was on the map. areas, the resulting prize-winning works are all the richer for his efforts. Friends of Library host popsicle party by patricia miller On Friday, August 29, 130 exuberant children and their parents gathered in the gardens of the Bainbridge Island Library. They came together to celebrate the culmination of this year’s Summer Reading Program with popsicles, face painting, and crafts, all of this accompanied by music and bubbles, courtesy of Jerry Elfendahl and his bubble machine. Readers were awarded books for 10 hours devoted to reading over the summer, but no one went home without a prize. Drawings held every few minutes rewarded young readers with a toy, or one of many prizes donated by Dav Pilkey of Captain Underpants fame. Librarian Leigh Ann Winterowd and library staff members, with the help of teen volunteers, had the celebration and activity centers all ready for the onslaught of young readers. They all worked through the afternoon to supervise and to clean up following the festivities. While the Popsicle Party was under full steam in the gardens outside, Friends of the Library volunteers were inside, sorting, pricing and shelving books donated by a generous community, all of this in preparation for the next book sale, one of 36 sales the Bainbridge Friends currently conduct every year. The income from these sales allows the Friends to support The Popsicle Party and the Summer Reading Program it celebrates, just two of many programs and projects the Bainbridge Friends fund. None of these activities would be possible without community- wide participation. It’s all about a hard working staff, book donations from a generous community, and committed Friends volunteers who process those donations and conduct the sales. Julia, Lilia and Stefani paint faces at the end-of-summer popsicle party
Genealogy programs set News Briefs The Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society has scheduled the following programs for fall and winter 2008-09: A NEW TOOL to help library users November 21 – Claire Smith, BIGS L.D.S. Library on Line”. workshops are given by our mentors, who manage their accounts has arrived. president, “Computer Programs for the February 20 – Workshop. are always focused on the program that Patrons who receive e-mail notification Genealogist”. March 20 – Gary Zimmerman, has been presented the previous month for hold and fine notices receive pre- December 19 – Holiday party, “Show director of the Fiske Library will speak. and always include a beginners’ group.” overdue notices three days before an item and Tell – About Your Family Research”. (Topic to be announced.) Beginners or others interested in is due. Library staff members cheerfully January 16, 2009 – Barbara April 17 – Workshop, election of officers. the group may call Greenlees for more update e-mail addresses for patrons and Saunders, volunteer at the L.D.S. Library, Priscilla C. Greenlees, chairman of information at 842-0210, or e-mail her at renew library items at the check-out desk “Getting the Most Out of Accessing the the program committee, notes that “Our [email protected]. or over the phone. Author interview page 6 Fall 2008 Meet author Robyn Carr She serves at the reader’s pleasure
By Suzanne wiggs in Iraq while fighting with the Marine Corps. It’s an emotionally satisfying story about the miracle of finding Robyn Carr is the kind of writer who makes people answers and falling in love. Get the tissues out – but I confuse fiction with reality. promise you, there are only good tears in this book.” Fans of her long-running Virgin River series are This story is for anyone who understands the value of so involved in her storylines that they’ve created a fan good tears. Also, it’s a gift to the loyal fans of the series. group on the Internet called “Jack’s Bar”, named after “I’m hearing from so many readers that they’ve pre- the popular watering hole in the series. ordered the book, so I imagine Virgin River fans will be Carr, who has lived all over the world as an Air Force reading it. But I think even those readers who are new to the spouse and the wife of an airline executive, now makes series will enjoy it as a special Christmas story,” Carr says. her home in Henderson, Nevada. There, she pioneered a library program that has become a national showcase, Every writer’s dream bringing writers and readers together. (See the Website Robyn’s writing process sounds like every writer’s www.carrchat.com.) dream. “For the last several years, I’ve served as the host of “I’ve been so into my writing the past few years, a visiting author program that the library has generously it’s taken over,” she says. ”My days are named Carr Chat,” she explained. “I interview guest authors wonderfully long. I start early, I work late. in front of a live audience, then field questions from readers, I get up, soak up some coffee, sit in front after which there is a signing for that author’s books.” of the computer, and write or revise all Some of Carr’s guests have included Mitch Albom, day until dinnertime. Then I eat with my Debbie Macomber, Marc Brown, Harry Turtledove, and husband and read until bedtime. It must Nancy Pearl. sound so dull, but my best weeks are when “I have learned so much from the guests about I see nothing on the calendar and know their process – widely different in every case – and that my writing time will be uninterrupted. from the questions posed by readers. It brings the “There are many breaks, of course: author, the book, and the community of readers volunteer work, meetings, travel, family, together. The program has influenced my own work. Author Robyn Carr. chores, errands. But the juggling days I find myself pondering what seems to be most – those years of raising a family while important to other writers and their readers. I’ve working – are pretty much past. Now been known to drastically change direction in a writing gets most of my time, and I story, based on what readers tell me. Their desires to read next) because I’m looking indulge it selfishly. are extremely important to me. I feel I serve at their forward to each one! “I’m not going to kid you here. I’m pleasure,” she said. “I remember, as a child, taking not disciplined; I’m having the time of my “Besides Carr Chat, I’m also a library trustee. It’s home far more books than I could life! This is where I’m happiest and most given me a hands-on view of the inner workings of the possibly ever read – and there was always at least one confident, creating the story.” big fat one with small print, something that As a reader, her heart still belongs to romance. felt more like a whole vacation than a little Some of her favorites include Susan Elizabeth This story is for anyone who understands entertainment.” Phillips, Susan Wiggs (who didn’t make her say that), Although trained as a nurse and the Rachel Gibson, and Colleen Gleason. the value of good tears. Also, it’s a gift to mother of two grown children – one a cop, This holiday season, the gift of A Virgin River the loyal fans of the series. the other a doctor – Robyn Carr was always Christmas is waiting for you at the library. And if you drawn to storytelling. ever find yourself in Henderson, Nevada, drop in and A writing career is a natural fit for a join the Carr Chat! library and I have had the pleasure of working with the passionate booklover like Carr. She has been a published More about Robyn Carr, library volunteer extraordinaire, most dedicated staff of public servants I’ve ever known. author since the age of 27, and has written books in a can be found on the Web at www.robyncarr.com. Their commitment to serving the community and variety of genres – mainstream fiction and suspense, (Best-selling author Susan Wiggs is a Bainbridge resident promoting literacy is inspiring.” romance and historical fiction. She’s the recipient of a and library volunteer. Her latest book, Just Breathe, was Carr has fond childhood memories of her RITA Award from Romance Writers of America, the published this fall to wide acclaim.—Editor) neighborhood library. highest honor given to a romance novel. “It was within walking distance and I was allowed Her current focus is on the Virgin River series – to go there by myself. I just liked being there, the stories of the lives and loves of the people of a small atmosphere was soothing and exciting at once.” community in northern California’s Humboldt County. The novels have earned starred reviews from Booklist Choosing a book and Library Journal, and raves from readers worldwide. Her process of choosing a book is something all Avid readers—the members of the “Jack’s Bar” chat bibliophiles can relate to. group on Yahoo—are eagerly awaiting her latest. You “The thing that has stayed with me till today – and I can join the gang on Jack’s Bar on the Web at: http:// have been a constant reader for a long time now – is the groups.yahoo.com/group/RobynCarr Chatgroup/. process of selecting the books. I like to read the cover, A Virgin River Christmas is a stand-alone holiday the first couple of pages, and then stack them in the order story that takes place in Virgin River, the setting for I want to read them. I play with them as if they’re toys. I Carr’s bestselling series. bat them around like a cat with a lizard. A lot of voracious “It’s about a young widow in search of her late readers complain about the number of books in their TBR husband’s best friend, who has disappeared into the pile, but nothing makes me happier than to have five to mountains surrounding Virgin River,” Carr explains. 10 books in the stack and not being able to decide (which “Her husband died as a result of injuries incurred
Highway 305 and High School Road Fall 2008 page 7 Travel, Books Library staff honors volunteers at brunch
The Bainbridge Library staff honored its volunteers at a September brunch filled with songs and laughter, greetings from branch manager Rebecca Judd, and suggestions for great reads from Martha Bayley.
Former branch manager Cindy Harrison introduced and thanked Shirley Howe, who was honored on her retirement after 13 years of service as a library volunteer. Other longtime volunteers present were Wayne and Judy Nakata, who now live part-time in southern California. As usual at this annual event, the table centerpieces were stacks of new books – which the volunteers were given as remembrances of the day.
Over 250 library volunteers have contributed more than 8,000 hours of service during the past year. Shirley Howe (left), Wayne and Judy Nakata (right) were among the long-time volunteers present at the brunch.
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Wow. What an amazing summer! Thank you Bainbridge Island staff and patrons for letting me spend the summer with you. It sure was a busy one with over 40 Summer Reading youth programs that served over a 1,000 island youth and adults. Children and their caregivers enjoyed stories and songs at story time and beat the summer heat at our movie matinees. Youth volunteers shared their love of reading with young children through the Reading Friends program. Using recycled materials and imagination students created their own whimsical insects in Kristin Tollefson’s Bug Sculpture Workshop. The gardens outside the Young People’s area were transformed into a woodland fairyland thanks to Ann Lovejoy and the participants of her Fairy House Workshop. As always Cowboy Buck and Elizabeth and the Reptile Man wowed the crowds. Local teens became amateur detectives and tested their vocal, guitar and drum skills during our Teen Mystery Night and Rock Band Tournament. Thanks once again for a wonderful summer. Welcome back, Carmine!
Local Girl Scouts earn Bronze Award This summer Emma, Anna, Jenny and Paige from Girl Scout Troup 1400 earned their Bronze Award by sharing their love of reading with young children. Girls wishing to earn this award must choose a project, set goals and complete 15 hours of community service. For these girls partnering with the library for this project was a natural choice. They all love to read and are active library users. Because of this they thought Emma, Jenny and Paige work for Bronze Star. promoting summer reading would be a great way to earn their award. They created a short presentation that included songs, felt board activities and stories. As a group they performed it at local day care centers and preschools. They even went back to read to the children individually and earned additional service hours. When asked what SHANNON RECEIVES they enjoyed most about their project they said “reading AWARD FOR BOOK books to younger kids” and “seeing happy faces enjoying the books” they were reading. George Shannon, popular Bainbridge author Congratulations to Emma, Anna, Jenny and Paige on of children’s books, is being congratulated for his earning their Girl Scout Bronze Award! most recent honor. His new book Rabbit’s Gift has received the Washington State Book Award. Connecting children with nature News Briefs Thanks to Ann Lovejoy and the participants in her Fairy House Workshop the gardens outside the Young CORRECTION: In our last Library News we People’s area were transformed this summer into an announced the birth of Carmine Rau and Tristan imaginative woodland fairyland. Baurick’s baby daughter, but misspelled the baby’s name. At the beginning of the workshop Ann discussed It is Ozma Baurick; she is named after the princess in L. with her class the types of building materials to use Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz series. such as rocks, sticks, moss and leaves and which ones to stay away from, mushrooms and stinging nettles. Using the materials they collected and their own limitless imagination the children created amazing miniature fairy Family Dentistry houses. Some were tucked into hollowed out logs, built on tree stumps or hidden behind a tree. It was exciting • Dr. James MacFarlane to see the creativity and self expression each child demonstrated with their fairy house. • Dr. Elizabeth Bell After an hour of active building no one was ready to leave. Many stayed after the workshop ended to add on • Dr. Nicholas Thompson additional rooms, walls, stairs or even a roof. Children today are more likely to spend their leisure time inside on the computer or watching TV than outside enjoying 525 High School Rd, NW nature. Activities like building Fairy Houses, according Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 to Ann Lovejoy, are an excellent way to “actively (206) 842-4794 for appointments connect tomorrow’s adults to the natural world”. Fall 2008 page 9 Young people
Young People’s Carmine’s Calendar October 20 Corner Toddler Storytime, 10:30 AM October 21 Baby Storytime, 12:30 PM By CARMINE RAU Pajama Storytime, 7:00 PM Young People’s Librarian October 22 Preschool Storytime, 10:30 AM Happy fall! It’s great to be back at the library. October 27 I missed you and am excited to see so Toddler Storytime, 10:30 AM many familiar faces around the library October 28 and back at storytime. Baby Storytime, 12:30 PM Pajama Storytime, 7:00 PM This summer was over in a flash, but there is something about the library October 29 in fall that feels like home. Fall is for Preschool Storytime, 10:30 AM crunchy leaves, hot chocolate, and November 3 curling up with books. Toddler Storytime, 10:30 AM I want to thank everyone for the notes November 4 and well wishes that were passed along Baby Storytime, 12:30 PM to me during my maternity leave. Pajama Storytime, 7:00 PM In the nearly three years I have November 5 been the children’s librarian here at Preschool Storytime, 10:30 AM Bainbridge, the many regulars we have November 10 at the library have become like a second Toddler Storytime, 10:30 AM family. It is a great delight to bring my November 12 own daughter to our baby storytime and Preschool Storytime, 10:30 AM for her to grow up in a community full of November 17 such strong readers. Toddler Storytime, 10:30 AM Thank you to all the kids, teens and November 18 families that read so much over the Baby Storytime, 12:30 PM summer. I had fun visiting this summer Pajama Storytime, 7:00 PM and seeing all the ants covering the walls November 19 as more and more of you finished the Preschool Storytime, 10:30 AM summer reading program. November 24 Congratulations, everyone! Toddler Storytime, 10:30 AM If you discovered a new favorite book November 25 over the summer, be sure to stop by my Baby Storytime, 12:30 PM desk and tell me all about it. Pajama Storytime, 7:00 PM November 26 ART IN THE LIBRARY Preschool Storytime, 10:30 AM The Kitsap Regional Library was December 3 one of the fortunate recipients of the December Delights, 10:30 AM Picturing America grant from the National (includes crafts) Endowment for the Humanities. Over December 10 the course of the year, the Bainbridge December Delights, 10:30 AM Public Library will be displaying high- (includes crafts) quality reproductions of works of art Mattie and Ashley creating Fairy Houses December 14 from American history. These will be on during the summer reading program. Storytelling, 3:00 PM display downstairs on the bulletin board December 17 near the check-out desk. December Delights, 10:30 AM This winter we will be hosting a (includes crafts) series of craft programs for children based on selected images from the 2009 Sasquatch Reading collection. Come discover some great, iconic works of our nation’s past. Award nominees ELECTION FEVER Looking for some holiday gifts for the children in your life? If the impending election has you These 2009 Sasquatch Award nominees may fill the bill. hankering for some presidential reads, Anjali Banerjee’s Looking for Bapu tops the list posted in the library. check out: So You Want to Be President? Other nominees are Diary of a Fairy Godmother by Esme Raji by Judith St. George. A funny look at the Codell; Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money, by Christophe Curtis; The Road many flavors of president. to Paris, by Nikki Grimes; The Homework Machine by Dan Gutman. Madam President by Lane Smith. Others are Tales of the Cryptids by Halls, Kelly Milner, Spears & Maybe not this election, but Katy is Young; The World’s Greatest Elephant by Ralph Helfer; The Beasts of undeterred in her aspirations. Clawstone Castle, by Eva Ibbotson; Archer’s Quest, by Linda Sue Park; John, Paul, George & Ben by Lane Clementine, by Sara Pennypacker; and Magyk, by Angie Sage. Smith. In their younger years our founding Young people’s library staff may also suggest popular books fathers often found themselves in trouble. for holiday gifts. Don’t hesitate to ask. They know which books are What to Do About Alice?: How Alice especially popular with young readers. Roosevelt broke the rules, charmed the world, and drove her father Teddy crazy! by Barbara Kerley. The title says it all. Duck for President by Doreen Cronin. Duck began in a humble pond. Who worked his way to farmer, to governor, and now, perhaps, to the highest office in the land? What Presidents Are Made Of by Hanoch Piven. Crazy collages reveal the character of 17 of our presidents.
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The Bainbridge Public Library and many other groups benefit from One Call gifts. Please remember to mail your red envelope – and when you do, remember the library, which receives no tax monies. Fall 2008 page 11 KRL Services Library outreach program serves Bainbridge Islanders and new bookmoble travels to rural areas
By barbara winther because the inside of the vehicle was too crowded. Once a dog What is purple, 28 feet long, runs on fight developed in the aisle, mud diesel and is named Violet? splattered all over the place, and Answer: the new bookmobile, kids jumped about screeching. purchased entirely with funds from Another mobile unit served donations through the Kitsap Regional Seabold during bookmobile days: Library Foundation. Alf’s Tonsorial Express. It was no In 1945, when the little Rolling relation to the library system, but Bay Library on Bainbridge Island how nice that a man could come to became part of Kitsap County’s Seabold, check out a book and then Library System, a unique private- get a shave and a haircut next door. public partnership began. Molly was replaced in 1981 The county furnished books and by a yellow cargo van nicknamed personnel for its Island branch, and the Buttercup. For the next 27 years, branch paid all expenses incurred for its Buttercup traveled over 500,000 library building, including maintenance, miles, delivering books to remote repairs, utilities and upkeep of the areas of Kitsap Country. grounds. That partnership still exists After receiving her fourth engine today in the subsequent Bainbridge and third transmission and suffering Public Library. numerous breakdowns and monthly visits Bainbridge was far less populated in to the mechanic, it became obvious that 1945 than it is now. Its communities were Buttercup’s time was running out. She isolated and its roads free of traffic. had poor interior lighting and lacked People who couldn’t make it to the temperature control. It was difficult to Rolling Bay Library wanted to check have to squint at a book on a shelf while out books; schools wanted to give their sweltering in 100 degree heat. One of students access to more information Buttercup’s recent problems drew wide and literature than their sparse libraries attention on the road: her horn blared for could offer. 10 consecutive miles. To answer this need, the Kitsap Jill Jean, director of Kitsap Regional Library, and Peggy Kent, president of the And so, Buttercup has retired Regional Library (KRL) started Kitsap Regional Library Foundation, cut the ribbon to open the new bookmobile. and Violet, with all the modern bookmobile service to the Island. conveniences of wiring for computers, An excerpt from my book They Like Noble Causes “The average number of Island stops was climate control, adequate shelving, a new engine and tells about those early bookmobile days. eight, with between 20 minutes to an hour and good fuel (diesel) mileage, has taken over the job. Here is what Elizabeth Bondy, librarian on the 15 minutes at each place. The longest stop was On September 14, there was a welcome party at the Bainbridge run from 1950 to 1967, had to say: at Port Madison, since readership was heaviest Sylvan Way Library for Violet as well as a retirement “Before they finished the agate Pass Bridge there—heavy at Lynwood and Venice, too. party for Buttercup. in late 1950, the bookmobile, nicknamed Molly, Some of the summer people said this was the Since no longer does the Island have isolated areas, had to be ferried over from Bremerton to Point only time they had a chance to read. Also, more and since its citizens built the centrally located Bainbridge white. The rear end of the vehicle was so long children came to the stops in the summertime, Library (a branch of the Kitsap Regional Library), the that at low tide it might ground the ferry, so since we didn’t go to their schools then.” bookmobile does not visit the Island any more. The we had to wait for high tide. Sometimes this Islanders loved the Molly bookmobile mission of the bookmobile remains to serve Kitsap meant delivering the bookmobile to the Island and eagerly awaited its appearance. As the County’s rural areas and senior housing sites that are far the night before and coming over by foot the population on the Island grew, however, so did from branch libraries. To see Violet in person, Islanders following day. stories about people having to wait in the rain must cross the Agate Pass Bridge and visit one of the 27 locations listed on KRL’s website bookmobile schedule and arrive there at the time of Violet’s appearance. Outreach Services, however, are still provided to the Island in the form of mini-library deposits to five End of summer places. These stops are for people who are unable to go to the Library: The popsicle party sponsored by • Madison Ave. Retirement Center (MARC), Bainbridge Friends of the Library brought • Winslow Convalescent Center, over 100 young summer reading program • Messenger House, participants to the library for end-of- • Island Health and Rehabilitation Center, • Virginia Villa summer treats. Shawna Smith was just And for a disabled, house-bound person, Outreach one of the children enjoying the event. Services will deliver a book to the home itself. The annual summer reading program The Kitsap Regional Library system, which includes is a county-wide program of the Kitsap eight branches plus the central library in Bremerton, Regional Library, and draws 1,000 or more wants to make sure that everyone in Kitsap County has Bainbridge youngsters most summers. the opportunity to read. (For more about the Friends of the (Barbara Winther, a long-time library volunteer, is a popular Library, please turn to Page 5.) author, playwright, and composer, and regular contributor to the Library News. —Editor.)
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A passion for place Beatrix Potter and the Lake District
By Margaret Trent
The Lake District, part of the county of Cumbria, lies tucked in the northwest corner of England. It is a place where craggy peaks graze the underside of clouds. A place where lakes throw back the land’s color and the weather’s mood; where ancient trees stud fertile valleys, guard rivers, and straddle the lichen-crusted stone walls that shelter fields and wander up hillsides. It is the place Beatrix Potter, the author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, cherished and called home. It is easy to fall in love with this part of the British Isles, and visitors often find themselves planning a return trip as they pack their bags for home. One reason the countryside is so enchanting is that much of it remains unchanged since Beatrix Potter lived there and devoted time and money to preserving its fertile farming valleys, intimate villages, and dramatic peaks and fells. Beatrix Potter was born in London, into a wealthy Victorian family. Her childhood summers were spent near Dunkeld, in Scotland, where the seeds of her fascination with nature and landscape germinated. She was 16 when the Potter family changed their holiday location to the Lake District. Cumbria provided her with another rich, untamed landscape where she Front porch at Hilltop. could study and illustrate the native flora and fauna. In 1896, when she was 30, she stayed for the first time Puddle-Duck, based on a real wayward duck, describes benefactor of the Trust and one of the largest landowners at Lakefield House, a residence commanding magnificent the farm and many of its familiar characters, including in the district. views of Esthwaite Water. The house was close to Sawrey, Kep, Beatrix’s favorite collie. The wooded countryside and A few days before Christmas 1943, at the age of a village that was to become dear to Beatrix. village of Sawrey, including the Tower Bank Arms, are all 77, ill health and heart trouble finally wore Beatrix out. She said of Sawrey: “It is as nearly perfect a little portrayed in the pages of what she called her “little books.” She died with her loving husband at her side; William place as I ever lived in.” She continued to use her followed 18 months later. The next nine years brought her royalties to make improvements to Beatrix Potter left 4,000 acres, including 15 farms, success as an author. The Tale of Travel programs Hill Top, buy additional property, to The National Trust. Her wish was for the farms to Peter Rabbit sold extraordinarily and expand her herds of cattle remain working establishments, let at reasonable rates, well, and her sixth book, The Tale co-sponsored by and traditional Herdwick sheep. and for her beloved Hill Top and its contents to be of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, inspired by a The Traveler are She now consulted with a local preserved “in their present condition.” Scottish washerwoman, was soon to solicitor, William Heelis, and in Today, tourists enjoy the countryside Beatrix called be published. held regularly 1909 purchased Castle Farm. The home, including Hill Top House. The beautiful gardens In the spring of 1905 Hill Top throughout the year. mutual admiration between the two are maintained with varieties of plants and flowers that she Farm, in Sawrey, became available grew deep, and in October 1913 would certainly have recognized. Visitors may even watch and she began to negotiate the Watch the calendar. they married. The couple made out for Tom Kitten in Hill Top’s lush herbaceous borders. farm’s purchase. In the summer of Castle Farm their home and Beatrix that same year her editor, Norman kept Hill Top as a studio and study. (Editor’s note: Margaret Trent is a native of Edinburgh, Warne, proposed marriage. The First World War was a difficult time for farmers. Scotland, a former human resources professional and volunteer Tragically, whatever dreams she harbored of a future Undaunted, Beatrix applied her growing skill in land crisis counselor. Her recently completed novel was a PNWA with Norman were shattered before summer’s end. After a management, and, never shy of hard work, helped in the literary contest prizewinner. She is the registrar for Field’s End, brief illness, Norman Warne died of lymphatic leukemia. fields when labor was scarce. the writers’ community associated with the Bainbridge Public Later that same year, using her royalties and Beatrix became a strong supporter of The Library.) a small inheritance from an aunt’s estate, she National Trust, a charity co-founded in 1895 by completed the purchase of Hill Top Farm. It was a a close friend. Its purpose was (and remains) to bold—even rebellious—step for a Victorian woman, protect Britain’s countryside, coastline, and historic demonstrating her independence and changing the buildings. Passionate about land preservation, she course of her life. donated to the Trust’s appeals, once selling some of Books of interest: Beatrix often used familiar places in her illustrations. her watercolor paintings to raise money and preserve Now, drawing comfort from her work, she completed The a piece of Windermere lakefront from development. The Complete Tales, Beatrix Potter—all 23 tales Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, the last book she worked on In 1930, in an arrangement with the National Trust, in one book along with original illustrations. with Norman. Originally Jeremy’s house was on Scotland’s she purchased the 3,738 acre Monk Coniston Estate, River Tay, but Beatrix brought him home to Esthwaite preventing the breakup and loss of many small farms. Beatrix Potter, a Life in Nature, Linda J. Lear— Water, creating some of her most charming illustrations. Beatrix and William worked hard as fund-raisers, which an in-depth look at the life of Beatrix Potter. Subsequent books featured Hill Top Farm and Sawrey. enabled the Trust to buy half of the property, with the In The Tale of Tom Kitten, Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit guides the other half bequeathed to the Trust in her will. Such was At Home with Beatrix Potter, Susan Denyer— mischievous Tom up the stone-flagged path to Hill Top’s the organization’s confidence in Beatrix that they invited takes the reader through Hill Top Farm and its front porch, and many of the story’s illustrations show the her to manage the land, which she did until her early surroundings. cottage garden and the home’s interior. The Tale of Jemima seventies. It was a transaction that made her a significant
Now at 265 Winslow Way East Fall 2008 page 13 Books Political books worth reading in this election year
By Julie O’Neill authors have strong opinions about of emerging trends that she believes give laugh. Schieffer says his intention Reference Librarian issues, candidates and events, but reason for cautious optimism. is “to provoke thought, to explain a they approach the topics in a less The Post-American World by Fareed complicated subject, or call attention to a polarizing, more factual way. Some Zakaria. Newsweek journalist Zakaria human foible.” are historical treatments, looking gives a “big picture” of the global White House Ghosts: Presidents at presidential campaigns of the economy and its implications for the U. and Their Speechwriters by Robert past. If you aren’t already S. He believes the U. S. economy doesn’t Schlesinger. Washington reporter burned out on election have to decline for the rest of the world Schlesinger looks at the crucial but often issues, here are a few good to rise. But the U. S. must recognize that hidden role of White House speechwriters, 2008 political books to “the rest”, in particular China and India, whose words define a president’s policies read before you vote. will become major players in world and legacies. Who knows the mind and All are available at the economy and political influence. insider stories of the presidents better than library. The Dark Side: The Inside Story of their speechwriters? Covering FDR to Choosing the How the War on Terror Turned into a GWB, this well-researched book is full of President 2008: A War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer. speech excerpts and funny, inspiring and Citizen’s Guide to the The Los Angeles Times said “If you humanizing anecdotes about the presidents. Electoral Process by intend to vote in November and read Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, The League of Women only one book. . . this should be it.” Cheap Shot and October Surprises Voters and Bob Guldin. Mayer, a staff writer for the New Yorker, in U. S. Presidential Campaigns by This is a non-partisan guide documents how the war on terror became Joseph Cummins. Dirty campaign tricks, to the laws, statistics, parties, a war on Constitutional protections that name calling and candidate scandals primaries, conventions, money, are the essence of American ideals. are nothing new. In 1836 Congressman electoral college and election She interviewed not just noted liberals, Davy Crockett accused presidential process that will choose our next but also military officers, intelligence candidate Martin Van Buren of secretly president. professionals, hard-line law-and-order dressing in women’s clothes. In 1960 This is the A Funny Thing Happened on the stalwarts in the justice departments, Harry Truman said anyone who voted for most exciting political year in decades. Way to the White House: Humor, and conservative Bush appointees who Richard Nixon would go to hell. This is Authors and publishers have capitalized Blunders and Other Oddities from the resisted the policies and methods of a reminder that history does repeat itself on the frenzy, churning out political Presidential Campaign Trail by Charles the administration from within. She and even our most famous presidents books. . . well, left and right! Osgood. Just when we all need a good shows how the 9/11 crisis led to the have not been above reproach in the dirty There are many books critical of the laugh, Osgood, the TV host of Sunday enhancement of presidential powers to game of political campaigns. current administration, including What Morning on CBS, offers a collection a degree never known in U. S. history, a Happened: Inside the Bush White of hilarious anecdotes from the past 70 legacy that will affect future presidents. House and Washington’s Culture of years of presidential elections. Gathered Best American Political Writing Deception by the former White House from articles, speeches and interviews, 2008. Left, right and everything in press secretary, Scot McClellan. here are great one-liner comebacks, foul- between, these essays cover the Bob Woodward has added the fourth ups and misstatements that will leave you spectrum of American politics volume in his examination and critique laughing, or scratching your head. with the focus on this year’s of the Bush administration, The War What You Should Know About candidates and major issues. Within: A Secret White House History Politics but Don’t: A Non-partisan Bob Schieffer’s 2006-2008. Guide to the Issues by Jessamyn Conrad. America by Bob There are books extolling the This book examines all the issues, Schieffer. Schieffer presidential candidates, or attempting to explaining who stands for what and why, has been covering discredit them. There are books by the whether it’s the economy, the war in Iraq, the news for over 45 candidates. There are party diatribes such health care, oil and renewable energy, or yearsa, as a newspaper as If the Democrats Had Any Brains, climate change. reporter, Washington They’d Be Republicans or The Great Dreams and Shadows: The Future correspondent for CBS American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big of the Middle East by Robin Wright. News, and moderator of Myths of Republican Politics. Journalist Wright has witnessed and Face the Nation. He began But if you want to skip the blatantly reported on events in the Middle East doing short commentaries one-sided titles, are there any good, non- for over 30 years. This is a scholarly to end the show about 15 partisan, well-researched new political look at tumultuous changes that have years ago. Here are 168 of books out there? shaped a region that will continue to be these essays, covering everything There are some. a foreign policy challenge for the next from politics and presidents to Of course, even some of these U. S. president. It’s a perceptive analysis tragedies and stories that make us Tired of U.S. politics? Visit Venice and the Veneto with Leon
By VERDA AVERILL Her latest, The Girl of His Dreams, It’s another Commissario Guido food, family, renaissance art, Italian is now circulating in our Kitsap Regional Brunetti mystery and is, as the jacket history, and local politics as much as If you’re so tired of American Library system, thanks to fiction collection promises, an evocative portrait of the unsolved crime. As in several of political wrangling you feel like escaping manager Martha Bayley. I spotted a copy just Venetian life. her previous novels, Leon once again to another country, I’d recommend one of returned to our Bainbridge branch, checked it Like the previous 15 novels in the Donna Leon’s mysteries set in Venice. out, and devoured it in an evening. series, this one focuses on home-cooked Continued on Page 14
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By Martha Bayley Most recently the group has added two relationship between renowned architect Capote and Lee uncovered in Kansas and Fiction collection manager, sets of classics to the collection: Jane Eyre Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah kept hidden for years. Kitsap Regional Library and The Good Earth. Borthwick Cheney. The library’s book group collection Other sets purchased with book group Interred with Their Bones, by remains one of our most popular The book group collection at Kitsap donations this fall include: Jennifer Lee Carrell. A literary thriller services, with sets reserved up to a year Regional Library has always been supported Away, by Amy Bloom. This is the epic that takes the reader around the globe and a half ahead of time. If your reading by the KRL Foundation, which donates story of Lillian Leyb, who embarks on a as a young scholar tries to solve the group is interested in donating funds funds to purchase new sets every year. journey to find her daughter that takes her mystery surrounding a long lost play by to augment this collection, please call Recently the library system has from the world of the Yiddish theater on Shakespeare. Martha Bayley at (360) 415-5728. also received donations from individual New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Capote in Kansas, by Kim Powers. A For a list of titles in the book group reading groups. One of the most generous Jazz District, and up to Alaska. novel about Truman Capote, Harper Lee collection, see the Website at www.krl. donors, Bainbridge Island’s own Point Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan. and the ghosts of the Clutters, the Kansas org. Follow the link via the “Adult” tab to White book group, has provided funds for In this acclaimed debut novel, fact and farm family murdered 50 years ago in the “Book Group Reservation Calendar”. the library to purchase a number of titles. fiction blend beautifully to illuminate the cold blood. Kim Powers imagines what Great winter reads: New travel essay books
By Gail Goodrick publications as well as American, and shipped to Russian areas to provide meaningful in his comfortable but Non-fiction collection manager has talked to people from all walks of jobs and incomes there. As a result, the meandering life. He takes his inspiration Kitsap Regional Library life. His book is filled with personal natives remained trapped in poverty. from the traversas (cross continent walks) stories of the people he has met, and the Also, other ethnic minorities (Germans, of Livingstone and Stanley and other First Stop in the New World: Mexico reader comes away with greater insight Ukrainians, Chechens, and Koreans) early explorers. Starting out in the deserts City, the Capital of the Twenty-First into life in this fascinating city. were exiled to Kazakhstan. Despite its of Namibia, where he struggles with the Century by David Lida portrays Mexico Apples Are from Kazakhstan, harsh climate and depressing history, weight of his pack, heavy with necessary City in all its colorful richness and by Christopher Robbins, provides an the recently independent Kazakhstan water, through the heat and humidity in squalor. Lida has lived in Mexico City entertaining introduction to this little seems to be doing quite well these days. Malawi, he pulls us along with him on for over 10 years and obviously loves it known land. Although I have never Robbins introduces readers to the history his battered feet as he stubbornly refuses despite its frustrations. Early in the book, seen the film Borat, I can imagine his and culture of the land, and describes offered rides and insists on walking the he describes Mexico City as typical of land of origin was chosen precisely its gorgeous scenery and unique whole way. He intersperses his experience many large cities in the developing world. because Kazakhstan seems so remote botany, including the notion that apples with those of his 19th century forerunners, These cities are attracting large and outlandish. After all, who knows originated there. so that the reader learns a great deal about populations so quickly that existing anything about this country which is Traversa: A Solo Walk Across Africa, the countries he traverses. His respect and services cannot accommodate them. about the same size as western Europe? from the Skeleton Coast to the Indian admiration for the people he meets along Usually the growth has come without Although Kazakhstan was used for Ocean, by Fran Sandham is a fascinating the way is obvious. Most of us will never government planning to guide the way. horrible gulags during Soviet days, tale written by an Englishman who attempt such an astounding trek but will be The amazing fact is that such cities work when political prisoners were expected decides he needs to accomplish something inspired by Sandham’s indomitable spirit. at all. Lida covers all facets of Mexico to work under terrible conditions, the City, from traffic to housing, food to native peoples of this area also suffered poverty, crime to culture. If you have a great deal. The land is rich in resources Continued from Page 13 ever visited Mexico City, or plan to go but was never developed so that the there, grab this book and read it! Lida resources could be processed there. Tired of U.S. politics? Visit Venice has worked as a journalist for Mexican Instead, the natural resources were explores people and cultures at the I’d answer: whichever one you come margins of Italian life, in this case the upon first. They’re all winners. But if secretive world of the Romani people. you have a choice, start with Death at La It’s a thought-provoking, moving Fenice, the first in the series. It’s a great story so beautifully written that it will way to get acquainted, and stars one of take you far away from U. S. problems Venice’s most beloved buildings as well for at least a few hours as you glide as a colorful cast of human characters. through the canals on vaporetti – no Another choice, perhaps for a gray police car chases in Venice – and can January night here, might be Acqua Alta, almost taste the classic food and wines in which Brunetti and his cohorts slosh of Italy. through the high waters of a Venice winter. Donna Leon is an American who Really, though, any Donna Leon book has lived in Venice for 25 years, and is worth reading. If you’re planning your truly loves the beautiful old city and its first visit to Venice, Leon will put you inhabitants. Her novels featuring the in just the right mood for the trip. And likable police commissioner Brunetti if you’ve visited the city often, a Leon have won legions of fans around the novel is one of the best ways I know to world, as well as many awards for the bring back pleasant memories. author. They’re usually published in Other titles in the Brunetti series are: Europe before the U. S., and in hard Death in a Strange Country, Dressed for cover well before the paperback. So a Death, Death and Judgment, Quietly in new Leon at the library can be a real find. Their Sleep, A Noble Radiance, Fatal Readers who haven’t yet discovered Remedies, Friends in High Places, Leon sometimes ask Bayley (and me) A Sea of Troubles, Wilful Behaviour, LIBRARY VOLUNTEER Mary Lewis (standing) assists Cynthia Russell, a newcomer which Commissario Brunetti book they Doctored Evidence, Blood from a Stone, from Pullman, in the use of the library’s new magnifying computer, now available in should read first. and Through a Glass, Darkly. the VIP room for use by those with impaired vision. Call the library at 842-4162 to make an appointment for instruction in its use. News Briefs LOBBY DISPLAY CASE – Organizations and Bainbridge Islander individuals are encouraged to sign out the library’s lobby wins Jaffe award display case for two-week periods. It’s a great place to showcase your special collection, says branch manager Bainbridge resident Jennifer Culkin is Rebecca Judd. Some restrictions apply. Inquire at the one of three recipients of the 14th annual reference desk. Rona Jaffe Foundation’s awards, grants of $25,000 each for “women writers of talent and promise in the early stages of ART BOOK SALE RAISES their writing careers”. Culkin, a nurse, is FUNDS FOR LIBRARY Photo: WestSound Home & Garden Magazine WestSound Photo: working on a book of essays about her Bainbridge Arts and Crafts has contributed harris s zommers medical experiences. over $750 to the library as a result of its sale earlier The prizes were created by novelist this year of used art books donated by community INTERIORS Rona Jaffe, who died in 2005. members. These funds will be used to purchase new Bainbridge Island, WA (206) 842-2525 art, architecture, and design materials. Fall 2008 page 15 People
Meet the staff Librarian Jeannie Ream coordinates volunteers’ work
By VERDA AVERILL You’ll find her at “I love all of our branches,” she said. “They come on a steady basis,” she the central desk in the “I miss the people I worked with earlier, noted, “certain days of the week.” Jeannie Ream first library, where she is and we keep in touch by e-mail. . . All of (Bainbridge Library volunteers also worked at the Bainbridge one of three reference our branches are connected. People don’t include groups like the Bainbridge Library Public Library as a librarians (along with realize how connected the whole KRL Board, the Friends of the Library, and the volunteer, back around the Julie O’Neill and Susan staff is. It’s not just one library. We have Friday Tidies gardeners. Volunteers are year 2000. Thorsteinson). nine branches throughout the county. . .” one reason the Bainbridge library building She liked helping out She loves the work, During her first two years as a and grounds have existed for nearly half a at the library, working and her location. librarian, Jeannie helped put together the century without any tax support.) with computers and on the “It was a good fit library system’s Click! program. Ream’s newest project for the library catalog, and joined the for me to come here. . .I “It’s our way of helping people to use is to help strengthen the online reference Kitsap Regional Library see people that I know, computers in the library. We teach people service. staff as a library assistant friends and neighbors,” basic computer skills, and how to use the “People can send us their questions and substitute. She then she said. “I’m right in catalog and databases. . .” she said. over the Web and we can reply via e-mail. spent three years acquiring the center of things.” There are about 40 volunteers in the We’ll be incorporating a new platform called Jeannie Ream her master’s degree in And she knows a lot KRL Click! program, which was developed AskALibrarian. It’s offered, at no charge, library and information science at the of people here. Jeannie and her husband by the library staff and volunteers working through the State Library,” she explained. University of Washington – while working Larry, who celebrated their 25th wedding together, throughout the system. The face of the current service will change part-time – and returned to the KRL system anniversary recently, moved with their two Today, in addition to her services as a slightly in the coming months, but the trade-off as a full-fledged librarian (at the Sylvan sons to the Island in 1991. (The boys have reference librarian, Ream keeps track of will mean better collaboration among staff and Way headquarters) in January of 2006. now finished their college studies.) the nearly 250 Bainbridge Island Library a stronger online service to the public. Now she’s come full circle. She’s back While it’s nice to be working close to volunteers and coordinates the library When she’s not working, Jeannie enjoys on Bainbridge, once again working with home, she still has pleasant memories of support volunteers who tidy shelves, outdoor activities including golf and volleyball, volunteers – this time as coordinator of her early work at other branches in the organize CDs, and perform other services gardening, and walking at Battle Point Park volunteers at the Bainbridge branch. Kitsap Regional Library system. within the building. with the family dog Kelly, a Labrador.
Page One newsmakers How many library patrons do you know?
The people whose photographs photographed with a copy of To Kill a Bainbridge Island writer who participates be seen at the group’s meetings and appear on Page One are all regular library Mockingbird during this month of the book; in the Field’s End writers’ community, and round tables. visitors. Chances are you’ve seen most 3) Priscilla Greenlees, library claims to have buried his first three novels 11) Charles Browne, president of the of them, if you use the Bainbridge Public volunteer with a special interest in the – literally. local Friends of the Library, is a longtime Library frequently. Bainbridge Island Genealogical Group; 8) Mary Lewis, a longtime library volunteer and computer whiz, who They include staff members, volunteers, 4) Joe Gonzales, another Kitsap Bainbridge Library volunteer, with a is now creating electronic archives for the steady readers and published writers. Some Regional Library staffer, who drives the special interest in the Visually Impaired Friends. are busy with careers, others are retired van that brings books and circulating Persons groups – the VIPS who meet the 12) Margaret Trent, a Bainbridge from the work force. They come alone, or materials to the Bainbridge branch and second Wednesday of every month (from Islander transplanted from Scotland, with families or friends. back to other locations; 1 to 3 p.m.) at the library. All low-vision has recently completed her first book Who are they? 5) Kathleen Thorne, volunteer for persons are welcome. and serves as registrar for the Field’s Reading from left to right, top to bottom: many worthy causes, who frequents the 9) Paul Hanson, a writer often seen End community. Her first article for the 1) Martha Bayley, Bainbridge Island library in connection with Island Arts and behind the counter at Eagle Harbor Book Library News – about Beatrix Potter’s resident, who manages the acquisition Humanities events; Co., is an active member of the Field’s home – appears in this issue. of fiction volumes for Kitsap Regional 6) Joan Gardiner, a Bainbridge Library End writers’ community. Staff members, volunteers, readers, Library; Board member for six years, who will be 10) Kathleen Alcala, longtime library writers – they’re all among the people 2) Chris Snow, Bainbridge City retiring from that position this year; volunteer and published author, is also a who make the Bainbridge Island Library Council member, one of many Islanders 7) Jonathan Evison, a successful Field’s End member and can frequently the cultural hub of this community.
Remember when... Representing Extraordinary
By GAIL CHRISTENSEN in various parts of the world. You learn more about her Island Properties! father, her housekeeper, and her friend Ned. Remember back to yesteryear when you curled up Nancy says in the introduction, “As many of you with your Nancy Drew mystery? I do. know me only as a character in a series of books written I remember that my local library would not carry the by a former friend of mine named Carolyn Keene, let books as they were not considered literature, so I had to me make one thing clear. Carolyn Keene used my name save my allowance to buy them for 99 cents each. without my permission and made a career for herself I really thought the author, Carolyn Keene, was telling stories of my adventures, many of which were great. I remember my disappointment when, as an adult, fraught with error and some of which were patently false.” I learned that Carolyn Keene was not the name of the As I read this book many of the old characters from other author but a pseudonym for Edward Stratemeyer. series pop up: Cherry Ames, who is Nancy’s rival; Frank If you remember, you might want to check out Hardy, love of her life; the Bobbsey twins (did you ever Confessions of a Teen Sleuth: A Parody by Chelsea wonder what happened to them?: Tom Swift, adventurer. Cain. All the characters created by Stratemeyer, plus This book is fun – a parody of all the old series some extras, are here. characters plus one of the more recent ones. Read it with The story is “written” by Nancy Drew in a series of enjoyment for the “logical” explanations by the titian vignettes beginning as a teen in 1926 and continuing to haired, slim and attractive sleuth who drove a custom 1992. Nancy continues to have adventures off and on blue roadster. Waterfront living isn’t expensive ... it’s priceless. Opera previews set This is the final Library News issue of 2008. We Norm Hollingshead’s popular Seattle Opera Previews Eileen Black look forward to bringing you the first issue of 2009 continue this winter and spring with the following offerings: (206) 780-3320 next February. Deadlines for news features and Saturday, January 3, 2 p.m. [email protected] advertising will be December 15. The Pearl Fishers by George Bizet. Our best wishes for a happy holiday season. Saturday, February 7, 2 p.m. —The staff of the Bainbridge Library News Bluebeard’s Castle & Erwartung by Bela Bartok. Saturday, April 25, 2 p.m. The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. real estate Art, Events page 16 Fall 2008 Student photographers document Suquamish
By Kate Skinner, Reference Librarian, Kitsap Regional Library Bainbridge Island Library is proud to host an innovative community project, the Suquamish Photovoice exhibition, in the meeting room gallery, in November 2008 Early in 2008, in an effort to encourage dialogue between various age groups and stakeholders in Suquamish, student photographers were invited to participate in the Suquamish Photovoice 2008 project. Inspired by a Seattle project, South Park Community Voices, the Youth/Seniors subcommittee of the Suquamish Citizen Advisory Committee, in partnership with Suquamish Elementary school, organized a group of community volunteers to produce the project. North Kitsap youths were encouraged to photograph the people, places and aspects of the community which have particular meaning and significance in their lives. The intent was to empower local youth and to give them a voice in the community through photography. Adult volunteer writers and photographers were recruited from the community to lead and direct workshops with the students. In this way connection was made with other members of the community. The often unheard voices of the young people were given a platform. The project has also provided a forum for tribe and non-tribal youth to share perspectives with residents of all ages, community leaders and decision makers. The timing was perfect as Suquamish, situated on Port Madison Indian reservation, is currently experiencing a period of tremendous growth and a cultural regeneration which will continue to have an impact on all residents Student photographers gather for a final photo shoot. for a long time to come. The culmination of the project is an exhibition of 20 photographs and accompanying comments by each Middle School, Kingston High School and North Kitsap Suquamish PhotoVoice 2008 has left a lasting legacy of the young participants. It is traveling to various sites High school. The Suquamish Tribe and Port Madison to the community. Ten digital cameras purchased for throughout Kitsap County. Enterprises, the business arm of the tribe, provided the the project were donated to the Suquamish Elementary Participants were 10-18 years old and drawn from major funding for this project. Bainbridge Island Boys Library, where they may be checked out for use by Suquamish Elementary, West Sound Academy, Kingston and Girls club supplied additional funding. students, teachers and Suquamish area residents
2008-2009 Speakers Forum dates are set
The 2008-2009 schedule for the Bainbridge Library Spitzer is an affiliate professor at the University of to speak and write standard English. Many of his stories Speakers Forum has been announced by George Washington School of Law, where he teaches state and come from his work on the popular Web site Common Edensword-Breck and Pamela McClaran, co-chairs. federal constitutional law and local government law. He Errors in English. Mary Woodward, youngest daughter of the late is also a public finance lawyer with Foster Pepper PLLC. Brians is a retired English professor who taught at Walt and Milly Woodward will speak at 4 p.m. On January 25, Linda Carlson will speak on Washington State for 40 years and has lectured widely Sunday, October 26. (All forum programs begin at 4 “Washington’s Company Towns: How Women on popular culture, world literature, and the history of p.m. on Sundays.) Shaped Employer-Owned Communities.” ideas. His books include Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic Her topic: “In Defense of Our Neighbors: The Based on Carlson’s 10 years of research on War in Fiction 1895-1984, Modern South Asian Walt and Milly Woodward Story” is also the title of company-owned towns, this talk describes daily life in Literature in English, and Common Errors in English her recently published, acclaimed book. In it she tells towns like Port Gamble, DuPont, Roche Harbor, Black Usage. He and his wife now live on Bainbridge Island. how her parents, publishers of the Bainbridge Review Diamond, Holden, and Richland. On March 29, Karen Haas presents the final series during World War II, fought the forced internment of Carlson is a Tacoma native and author of 11 books. Her talk: “Narcissa Whitman: Lady at the Crossroads”. their Japanese-American friends and neighbors and background in forest products resulted in her most recent Using portions of Narcissa’s letters and her beloved helped the community grapple with their exile. book, Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest, published hymns, Karen portrays Mrs. Whitman as she shares the Mary Woodward majored in history in college and in 2003 and a finalist for the Washington State Book challenges, joys and sorrows of her life as a missionary to taught the subject for several years. Award. She has been a Humanities Washington Inquiring the Cayuse. On November 9, Hugh Spitzer will speak on the Mind speaker since 2004. She is a graduate of Washington Karen Haas is a storyteller, musician and historian, “History of the Washington State Constitution.” State University and the Harvard Business School. who enjoys bringing the past to life with living history His talk and slide show describes the impact of the On February 22, Paul Brians will address presentations. She too is a Humanities Washington late 19th century populist movement on the structure and “Common Errors in English Usage”. “Inquiring Mind”. content of Washington’s constitution and the impact on In a lively and entertaining manner he’ll explore Admission to each Sunday forum is $10 at the door, the state’s political and legal life. some of the patterns that people struggle with in trying or $40 for the series.
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