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Vol. 15, No. 2 Bainbridge Public Library, 1270 Madison Ave. N, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Spring 2013 Mark your calendar These events take place in the library unless otherwise stated.

AARP Tax Assistance through April 15 • M,W 10:30-1; M 5:30-7:30; F 1:30-4 March 1-31 • Art at the Bainbridge Public Library. On exhibit in March: 50th Anniversary Photographs by Joel Sackett Saturday, March 23 • “Great Singers: Placido Domingo (1983-)” with Norm Hollingshead 2 p.m. Monday, March 25 • Fireside Mysteries: Storytime for Grownups. Location: Waterfront Park Community Center (370 Brien Dr.) 1-2 p.m. Tuesday, March 26 • Friends of the Library Book Sale 10 a.m.-3 • CLICK! Internet 201. Call the library 842- 4162 to register. 3-4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 27 • CLICK! 60 minutes with a computer trainer. Call the library 842-4162 to register. 12-3 p.m. • Bainbridge Library Book Group: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt 7 p.m. Friday, March 29 • Tea & Mystery with Aaron Elkins 3-4:30 p.m. Saturday, March 30 esterday’s youngsters at storytime • “Great Singers: Enzio Pinza” with Norm Y Hollingshead 2 p.m. April 1-30 Young people’s librarian Peggy Hughes and friends were photographed at an early story hour in the expanded Bainbridge • Art at the Bainbridge Public Library. On Public Library—in time for Page One of the first issue of the Library News 15 years ago. Hughes, now better known as exhibit in April: Jean Bradbury, paintings Meg, is today a librarian at the Poulsbo Library. Do any of today’s readers recognize the now teen young people? The staff Wednesday, April 3 would like to hear from them. • Books on Tap Literary Trivia. Location: Treehouse Café ( 4569 Lynwood Center Rd) 7:30-9 p.m. Thursday, April 4 • Friends of the Library Book Sale 1-4 p.m. Friday, April 5 • 1st Friday art walk reception with painter Jean Bradbury 5-7 p.m. pring brings new activities to library Saturday, April 6 S • BPL Garden Series: 2012 Bainbridge in Spring has arrived at the library, and the gardens are —It’s not on the calendar, but a March Madness Bloom gardens revisited 1-2:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9 in bloom. accompaniment to the college basketball tournaments • CLICK! Learn to download library eBooks and Visitors are gathering in the fern gardens and how-to has shown up in the Bainbridge Library lobby (just as audio. Call the library 842-4162 to register. 10-noon books on gardening are on many Islanders’ lists for reading. this issue goes to press). Join the fun at the library, or Wednesday, April 10 Check the calendar, and the pages that follow, and online. How do you play? Just ask a librarian. • Low Vision Support Group 1-3 p.m. you’ll find many special events that will appeal to —A brand-new event is a book launch on the • Island Film Group: The Country Girl (1954) Film & Discussion 7 p.m. Bainbridge residents and their spring visitors. A few Bainbridge Seattle ferry. Susan Wiggs, Bainbridge Thursday, April 11 you won’t want to miss are: Island’s beloved best-selling author, will introduce her • Ferry Tales Book Group 3:50 (BI-SEA); 4:40 —A tea and mystery appearance by Aaron Elkins, new novel, The Apple Orchard, on the Bainbridge- (SEA to BI) Friday, April 12 best-selling writer of mysteries set in the Northwest. Seattle ferry, to start a new library feature, Books • Building a Sustainable Economy (BASE) Elkins, a former Bainbridge resident now living west of Afloat. (For more about this and other happenings, lecture series 5:30-7 p.m. here, has been away too long. (See page 11.) check the stories on Page 13, and note the times for the Saturday, April 13 • Friends of the Library Book Sale 10 a.m.-3 —A timely garden feature April 6 is the 2012 Wiggs book launch as posted in the library.) • CLICK! Learn to download library eBooks and Bainbridge in Bloom gardens revisited. It’s at the There’s more, much more in this first issue of the audio. Call the library 842-4162 to register. 1-3 p.m. library, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Bainbridge Library News 15-year celebration. Keep on Tuesday, April 16 —April is Poetry Month, and on page 2 you’ll read reading, and we’ll see you at the library. • 3rd Tuesday Book Discussion: An Arsonist’s about a poet laureate who is busy promoting community Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England by Brock Clarke. Location: Waterfront Park involvement. —Library News Editor Verda Averill Community Center (370 Brien Dr.) 1-2 p.m.

Continued on page 3 Field’s End page 2 Spring 2013 Writer’s Roundtables offer advice for the Island’s newest magazine Field’s End invites you to attend these upcoming June 18 Foote, Cone & Belding in Chicago. Roundtables: Michael Cyger, Vicki Wilson, Erin Jennings: From From award-winning community Proposal to Press: Writing for Bainbridge Island weeklies to monthly parenting April 16 Magazine magazines to The Washington Post, Jeannine Hall Gailey: How to Make a Difference in Listen and learn from Bainbridge Island Magazine Wilson has enjoyed connecting with Your Local Poetry Community publisher Michael Cyger, editor Vicki Wilson, and regular her neighbors with her reporter’s Poet Jeannine Hall Gailey discusses how to make an contributor Erin Jennings, as they share what it takes to notebook in hand. Wilson has a impact on your local literary community. Possibilities be a part of a hometown magazine. New in 2012, the degree in marketing communications include volunteering to lead a reading series, partnering magazine is “Celebrating the Best of Bainbridge Island” from Columbia College. Wilson Bill Photo Credit: with other artists, or working with schools or local and is of interest to writers and photographers. Erin Jennings is a regular government. Come learn how each of us, as writers, Michael Cyger is founder and contributor to Bainbridge Island can make a difference by bringing our unique gifts and publisher of Bainbridge Island Magazine. She has a degree in contributing to the creative space we’re looking for Magazine and BainbridgeIsland. journalism from the University of ourselves. com. He jumped into the publishing Missouri. Before opening Windmill Jeannine Hall Gailey is the Poet Laureate of world in 2000 after more than Writing—her freelance writing Redmond, Washington. She is the author of the poetry a decade in corporate America. business—she worked for Sound collections Becoming the Villainess and She Returns to Today Cyger’s publications reach Publishing where she focused on the the Floating World. Her third book, Unexplained Fevers, half a million unique readers per lifestyle and culture of Kitsap County. Photo Credit: Katie Brase Photo Credit: is forthcoming in 2013. Gailey’s work has been featured month and feature print and online Field’s End Roundtables, which are free and open on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and in magazines, video interviews, industry research, discussion to the public, take place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on the The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have forums, directories, software as a service, product third Tuesday of each month at the Bainbridge Public appeared in The Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, marketplaces, and job boards. Library. The evening includes a presentation, question Prairie Schooner, and other journals. She volunteers for Vicki Wilson is the editor of Bainbridge Island and answers, and closes with an opportunity to network Crab Creek Review and currently teaches in the MFA Magazine. Wilson has been writing professionally since with other writers. For a complete schedule and more program at National University. 1994, when she began her career as a copywriter at information visit FieldsEnd.org.

May 21 Elizabeth Wales: Two Milestones on the Way to a Published Book How do you know when you are ready to seek a literary Poet Laureate Promotes agent? How then do you find one? Elizabeth Wales, who founded Wales Literary Agency in 1990, addresses these Community Involvement two important questions for writers looking for professional guidance. Mediabistro.com has called the agency a Jeannine Hall Gailey serves as Poet Laureate of brings an awareness of how few people are actually “discerning Seattle outfit in search of literary nonfiction and Redmond, WA, a two-year post designed to build a reading and purchasing literary products of any kind; fiction from the Pacific Rim and beyond.” more literate community by creating activities that this might be motivation for us to, say, speak at a school Elizabeth Wales, owner and place poetry in the hands of everyday people. For more or work for literary causes. Whatever your talents are, principal agent of Wales Literary than a decade Gailey has volunteered with local literary there is something you can do. Agency, began her career in journals performing a variety of tasks such as updating My work as Poet Laureate of Redmond, in particular, publishing at Oxford University websites, marketing and distribution, editing, and has brought me into contact with people and institutions Press in 1980. Wales also worked writing reviews. In her words: I never would have known otherwise, which has been a at the Strand Bookstore and in I think writers should volunteer in their communities, great honor. Getting to know our neighbors, librarians, trade sales and marketing at as much as possible because that's not only how we grow local teachers, museum curators, and city council Viking Penguin in New York. The the love of literature, but also how we learn more about members can only enrich our lives and help the cause of Seattle-based agency has come how the literary world works. It's useful to review literary literature in our communities at the same time. to be regarded as a competitive boutique agency with a magazines, for example, because it gives you a wide Maybe we encourage a few more kids to pick up a quality list. Client titles have appeared on The New York perspective on what's being published, and writing your book of poetry, or someone who thought they would Times, Publishers Weekly, and other national bestseller first rejection note gives you more understanding when you never write to pick up a pen. Maybe we can only make lists; earned strong reviews; and attracted a long list of are the writer receiving the rejection from another editor. small changes in our world, but I would rather make awards and grants. Learning about the commercial parts of publishing small changes than none at all.

Bainbridge Island’s own independent community bookstore since 1970 Congratulations to Bainbridge Island author Just one cent per household will carry your Library News advertising message Su s a n Wi g g s all over Bainbridge Island. YES! You can shop for her new novel, Curious? online & get eBooks at Th e Ap p l e Give us a call at EagleHarborBooks.com Or c h a r d Signed Copies Available! 842-2865 or 842-4162 Spring 2013 page 3 Field’s End Behind the scenes with Nancy Pearson

By Cathy Warner attendees find that experience worthwhile, fun, and connect with readers. Explains Pearson, “New and inspirational…better than expected.” established authors are increasingly uncertain how they’ll Nancy Pearson left California and a career in This year’s seminar differs from previous conferences. reach future audiences and what it means for the writing corporate and investment banking for Bainbridge Island “It will be a more focused, hands-on, interactive event,” they do today. New tools, technologies, and terminology in 2007. She was eager to try some serious writing and Pearson explains. “This year’s seminar will dive deep into have sprung up so quickly–it can be overwhelming.” discovered Field’s End at the library. a single broad topic–the dynamics of publishing.” The Field’s End 2013 Spring Seminar, The “One of the first writing classes I signed up for Pearson says publishing is an important topic for Publishing Revolution: Ride the Wave!, is designed to convinced me I had a lot to learn,” she says. “The class also writers: “not only digital and independent publishing ease the anxiety surrounding publishing by providing helped me appreciate the camaraderie of fellow writers.” trends, but also the changing roles of agents and writers with education and inspiration. More information When asked to join Fields End Core Team in traditional publishers.” It also impacts how writers is available at FieldsEnd.org. 2010, Pearson didn’t hesitate. “It was a good decision. My work with Field’s End motivates me and keeps me engaged with other writers on days when I’m Field’s End Seminar: The Publishing Revolution: Ride the Wave! discouraged and don’t feel much like a ‘real’ writer.” On April 27, 2013, Field’s End is offering an all-day and digital properties and leads partnerships with digital Pearson has coordinated Field’s End annual seminar to educate writers on the changes taking place developers and marketing specialists. He is on the advisory Conference, and this year is coordinating the Spring in publishing, especially digital technologies. boards of several technology startups focusing on the Seminar. She says: If you’ve ever wondered how digital and alternative publishing industry, has been a consultant to leading media “Coordinating a special event is a huge amount publishing can strengthen the bond between writer and companies, and teaches digital publishing at the City of work for the entire team, deciding everything from reader, had questions about the economics of self- University of New York - City College. topics to instructors to venues and menus. My business publishing, or wanted to know what publishers are The Publishing Revolution seminar experience has taught me that things frequently go looking for right now, The Publishing Revolution: Ride takes place on April 27 at Islandwood wrong. It’s usually the things you least expect and at the Wave! will answer your questions. from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is limited the last minute. My role is to ensure we have back-up Jason Allen Ashlock, Co-founder and President of to 75 participants. Cost is $160 and plans, plenty of energy, and confidence. We’re asking Movable Type Management, is an expert in the field and includes a gourmet lunch and wine and people to spend $150-$200 and to commit a full day to will present valuable information at the daylong event. cheese reception. For more information our conference or seminar. My enjoyment comes when At MTM, Ashlock oversees development of new books or to register, visit FieldsEnd.org.

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Tuesday, April 16 cont. Friday, April 26 Thursday, May 9 Tuesday, May 21 • Field’s End Writers’ Roundtable: Jeannine Hall • The Salon: a forum for conversation 1-2:30 p.m. • Ferry Tales Book Group 3:50 (BI-SEA); 4:40 • 3rd Tuesday Book Discussion: The Gailey presents “How to Make a Difference in Saturday, April 27 (SEA to BI) Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman. Your Local Poetry Community” 7 p.m. • Seattle Opera Preview with Norm Hollingshead: Saturday, May 11 Location: Waterfront Park Community Center Wednesday, April 17 Voix Humaine & Suor Angelica 3 p.m. • Friends of the Library Book Sale 10 a.m.-3 (370 Brien Dr.) 1-2 p.m. • Field’s End Writers’ Roundtable: Elizabeth • Travelogue: “Cuba” with Matthew Brumley May 1-31 • CLICK! Learn to download library eBooks and of Earthbound Expeditions. Co-sponsored audio. Call the library 842-4162 to register. 1-3 p.m. Wales presents “Two Milestones on the Way • Art at the Bainbridge Public Library. On exhibit to a Published Book” 7 p.m. with The Traveler 7:30 p.m in May: Bill Hemp, pen and ink sketches of Tuesday, May 14 Friday, April 19 Bainbridge • CLICK! Learn to download library eBooks and Wednesday, May 22 • Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society: audio. Call the library 842-4162 to register. 10-noon • Bainbridge Library Book Group: Out Wednesday, May 1 Stealing Horses by Per Petterson 7 p.m. member case studies on non-linear lines 10 • Books on Tap Literary Trivia. Location: Wednesday, May 15 a.m.-12 Treehouse Café ( 4569 Lynwood Center Rd) • Travelogue: “Splendor of India” with Barbara and Monday, May 27 Saturday, April 20 7:30-9 p.m. Grant Winther. Co-sponsored with The Traveler • Library Closed for Memorial Day • Island Theatre Play Reading at the Library: Thursday, May 2 7:30 p.m Tuesday, May 28 Anna in the Tropics 7:30 p.m. • Friends of the Library Book Sale 1-4 p.m. Friday, May 17 • Friends of the Library Book Sunday, April 21 • Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society: Karl Sale 10 a.m.-3 Friday, May 3 • CLICK! Internet 101. Call the • Island Theatre – Repeat performance 7:30 p.m. • Composting workshop with master composter Kumm from the Fiske Library on “Why and How Document” 10 a.m.-12 library 842-4162 to register. Tuesday, April 23 John Barutt 1-2 p.m. Library garden 3-4:30 p.m. • Friends of the Library Book Sale 10 a.m.-3 • 1st Friday art walk reception with Bill Hemp 5-7 p.m. • Building a Sustainable Economy (BASE) lecture series 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday, April 24 Wednesday, May 8 • Bainbridge Library Book Group: • Low Vision Support Group 1-3 p.m. Saturday, May 18 Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer • Island Film Group: Kiss me Deadly (1955) Film • Building Paper Bridges, a workshop for adults 7 p.m. & Discussion 7 p.m. with John Wiens. Call the library 842-4162 to register 2-4 p.m.

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Little Free Libraries Lifelong learning can are everywhere these days. These small libraries, sometimes no bigger than a continue for 100 years birdhouse, are spots where an individual, family, or community group can put out The Bainbridge Public Library, like many books for lending in their neighborhood. universities and other places for education, is Here Islander Kip Bankart puts the dedicated to lifelong learning. finishing touches on a little free library That’s pretty obvious if you take a quick look at the Mandus Olson Road trailhead into around the building during a busy week day or Bainbridge Island’s Grand Forest West. Saturday. (For more about the free libraries check Pause for a walk through the fern garden— the website at www.littlefreelibrary.org.) especially if spring rains have let up—and then stroll through the lower level and main floor. Chances are you’ll spot a bunch of pre- schoolers, including babes in arms, in the children’s area. Upstairs you’ll probably find older children as well as teens looking for homework help or the newest young adult novels. In the reading area, it may be hard to find a seat after the day’s newspapers have arrived. Gray-haired citizens of retirement age and beyond will be reading the Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times, and of course, the Bainbridge Review. Just for a start. The wide variety of magazines are circulating constantly—for information on international politics, homes and gardens, sports, and much more. What’s ahead for KRL in 2013? What brought this lifelong learning to our By Jill Jean, Kitsap Regional Library Director Among the many goals identified for 2013 are the attention recently is the number of youngsters who and Verda Averill, Library News Editor following: are not yet reading—those babies in arms—yet • Implement an online, full-image magazine seem happily listening at story hours and looking Long-time Bainbridge Island residents, especially subscription service that will allow KRL patrons at picture books. And just a few steps away, we’ve those who recall the 1940s, may remember the early to download and read magazines on their home met with library card holders over 80, 90, and days of the Kitsap Regional Library. computers or personal devices. (See article on approaching 100 years old. The county-wide library system was formed in the Page 5.) There’s no doubt about it. Our citizens are living 1940s, well before the first central Bainbridge Public • Improve the functionality of the library’s public longer, and apparently enjoying life more—whether Library was built at the intersection of Madison Ave. and computers for sound and video streaming. it’s helping out as a Friday Tidy volunteer or curling High School Road. • Replace one-third of public computers system- up with a great new novel by one of our local authors. Funds for the new library building itself were raised by wide. the people of Bainbridge Island. But there was little money • Implement on-line continuing education courses. And they’re remaining active at the century available for staff salaries, books, and other expenses. So • Increase use of express self-checkout at library mark and beyond. the citizens of Winslow (the only incorporated city on the branches. In this issue of the Library News you’ll meet Island) voted to join the county-wide system. • Begin transition to digital signage for all branch The Amazing Mrs.Teshiba, now 105, who thrives Today Kitsap Regional Library serves nine public libraries. on her work and is looking forward to celebrating libraries in the county under one umbrella. Staff salaries, • Expand the Third Graders to the Library program. her 106th birthday. circulating books and other materials are funded by local • Align and partner the library with other You’ll have to go to the Big Island to wish her a property taxes. (The Bainbridge Public Library, built by organizations offering STEM (science, happy birthday. But you don’t need an airline ticket and for the people of Bainbridge Island, is managed by a technology, engineering and math) programs in to meet some of our local senior citizens. local board.) county. A few weeks ago we met a newcomer (from The county-wide system was a logical step for young, • Conduct the sixth annual One Book, One California) who will be celebrating her 100th small libraries to take, and today the nine branch libraries Community program. birthday soon, and we’re looking forward to getting work closely together, not only circulating books and • Develop and implement a pilot program on Books other materials but providing many county-wide services. Afloat. (See page 13.) to know her better. (See page 13 for library news around the county.) • Determine a site for a new Silverdale Library. What these and other active centenarians have The Kitsap Regional Library system is run by a • Support the building of a new Kingston Library as in common is an interest in the world around them volunteer board of trustees, chosen from each of five part of the Village Green Community Center. and a desire to keep on learning. districts, and an experienced librarian is hired by the And that’s where your library, and the Library board to manage the county-wide system. News, come in. Jill Jean, a Bainbridge Island resident and former Take a look at this issue’s calendar and see what’s Seattle Library senior staffer, is director of today’s happening. April is Poetry Month. When was the last Kitsap Regional Library system. time you checked out a book on poetry? At its winter meeting in January, the KRL board 1270 Madison Ave. N, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 And after a long, gray winter, spring has arrived. approved an ambitious set of goals for the year 2013, The Bainbridge Island Library News is a quarterly community newspaper produced for the Bainbridge Public Have you thought about joining the Friday Tidies? despite a tight budget. “KRL continues to look for ways to provide better Library by professional writers who volunteer their time Or checking out a new book on gardening? and efforts in cooperation with members of the Kitsap services and expand services while remaining efficient and Have you been to one of our classic films nights Regional Library staff, the Bainbridge Public Library staying within the budget limitations set by its property Board, the Friends of the Bainbridge Island Library, and recently? Your library hosts put on a great show, tax levy,” Jean said. “The goals are built around initiatives the Kitsap Regional Library Foundation. Funding for this and the conversation among film enthusiasts can be non-profit publication is from grants, local advertisers, and identified in the library system’s Vision 2015 StrategicP lan. individuals. The Library News is mailed to all homes and eye-opening. “We continue to be as much about moving businesses on Bainbridge Island, is available at the library So, whatever your age, there’s something for forward as we can be,” Jean added. “We have financial and other locations, and is reproduced on several websites. you at the Bainbridge Library. limitations, but we are still looking for ways to be The Bainbridge Island Friends of the Library website (bifriends.org) includes all issues of the Library News. See you there. Keep on learning. innovative and efficient.” Spring 2013 page 5 Op-ed eMagazines available through the library! by Charles Browne user. There is no hold queue. They are available 24 Reading magazines on the tablets is simply outstanding, hours/day, every day of the year. and the other devices also work very well with the service. By the time this edition of Library News arrives in Once you’ve signed up and selected a magazine, I heartily recommend you try this new service. your mailbox, you will probably have heard that Kitsap when the digital edition of the magazine becomes Technology is changing the way we get information, and Regional Library system introduced a new service to available, it is automatically placed on your device and this is just another way our libraries are working to stay library patrons: downloadable eMagazines. This new you can begin reading online. When you download the abreast of what’s new and how they can best serve their service is really nifty, and I believe it will become a magazine to your device, you won’t need internet access users. I think they do a great job. popular way for library users to read magazines. Print to continue reading, and you can read magazines aren’t going to disappear at the library. This at your leisure. is just a different way to read them. When I first heard of this new The new “Zinio” service basically allows library service, I thought it might be only users to select and receive, at no cost to them, current the text versions of articles in the digital editions of selected magazines. Currently, KRL print magazine, but actually the has a collection of about 100 quality magazines to digital magazine you receive is an choose among. Sound too good to be true? Well, it’s exact duplicate of the print magazine, a fact! All that’s needed is to install the Zinio Reader including all the photography, graphs, app on your tablet (iPad, Nexus, Kindle Fire, Nook and layout. National Geographic Tablet, etc.), smart phone, desktop or laptop computer without the photography just wouldn’t (Mac and PC’s). You’ll also need to create an online be the same. You even get the ads. account to choose which magazines you would like There are links within the magazine, to receive, and then they’ll magically appear on your for example in the index, where you tablet, computer, or smart phone. You can get detailed can jump quickly to any article of your instructions about this service on the KRL website or at choice. You can bookmark a page, the library. zoom in and out for better viewing, and What magazines are available? If you’re thinking if you only want to read the text, you the magazines likely won’t be something you’re have that option too. interested in reading, you might be quite surprised. I’ve tried out Zinio on a desktop Consumer Reports, The Economist, Forbes, Organic computer, laptop, and a Nexus 10 Gardening, National Geographic, The Smithsonian, and tablet. I’ve also talked to Tressa many more first line titles are available. Unlike eBooks, Johnson, Bainbridge librarian, who has you won’t need to go through a check-out procedure and been testing out the service on an iPad the magazines are always available to any KRL library and we’ve come to similar conclusions. Your donated books support your library

By PAT MILLER bookroom where they can buy books for fifty cents to a When you donate your books to the Bainbridge a Friend of the Library couple of dollars each. None of this happens by accident. Friends, you are helping to support children’s and adult The process is fully dependent upon the generosity of programs, to support teen programs and to support the While it’s true that the Bainbridge Friends of the Islanders who donate an amazing number of books. Friends of the Library Foundation for the Bainbridge Library book sales have always been popular, patronage The Friends volunteers gather in the bookroom three Public Library. The Library and the grounds are the has grown remarkably since they began nearly 50 afternoons a week to sort these books, then price and property of Bainbridge Islanders, and its maintenance years ago. Back then, the Friends were selling donated shelve them. Part of that process is to consider the most is funded by donations from the community. As the livestock, clothing, china and toys, all of these in likely books for online sales. We want to get the best Friends Foundation increases in value, it will be able to addition to books. But times change, and the sales have possible price for books of high value in order to do provide an additional steady source of income. evolved into the events you experience today: two rooms the best by those who donate them, and because of the Thanks to you all for bringing your books to the lined with shelves full of books carefully sorted to genre. importance of the Friends’ income and all it allows us to Friends, thank you for buying books, and thank you for When the doors open, patrons stream into the do for the library. supporting your Bainbridge Public Library.

Family movie matinees coming soon Join us every month (twice a month in the summer) for a family movie matinee in the large meeting room.

Next up: Rise of the Guardians on Friday, April 19 at 3:30 p.m. We’ll pop the popcorn! Ramona and Beezus on Friday, May 10 at 3:30 p.m. Holes on Friday, June 14 at 3:30 p.m. The Secret of N.I.M.H. on Friday, June 28 at 3:30 p.m. Author, Travel page 6 Spring 2013 A trio of thrillers by Margaret Trent them as, “padding silently beneath the Fielding travels with her friend romantically involved with a professor people on the page.” Cats watch, tease, Carrie to Peru for a vacation. Jan is a of English. They end up being pursued Barbara Winther, award-winning secretary to Logan McCloskey, by the Yakuza, who seem to be after the travel writer and intrepid adventurer, one of the partners in the contents of an envelope in Chelsea’s has coupled her fascination for distant law firm. However, instead possession. The couple is forced into places with her love of writing to craft of a restorative vacation, the increasing danger as they try to escape a trio of travel thrillers. two women find themselves a criminal underworld. The first, The Jaguar Dances, is embroiled in a dangerous In addition to being travel thrillers, set in Peru. My personal favorite, The political scheme that threatens all three books have a romantic story Leopard Sings, unfolds in Kenya, and their lives. When Logan flies thread. There is a handsome Peruvian, the third, The Tiger Drums, takes place out to help Jan, he too finds his a charming Englishmen in Kenya, in Japan. The common denominator in life in jeopardy. and a scholarly Japanese-American these stories is an interesting female The second book of the professor to complicate the lives of the character, each connected to the series, The Leopard Sings, three heroines. fictitious San Francisco law office of follows Allison Warner and her If you’ve traveled to any of the McCloskey, Warner and Jarvis. All husband Burke on a Kenyan places featured in Barbara’s novels, three novels were Pacific Northwest safari as they attempt to revive they will be wonderfully recreated for Writers’ Association award winners. their troubled marriage. This you. This was true for me with The Barbara’s writing is as diverse as the novel has a wonderful cast of Leopard Sings. Barbara portrays the places she has visited. Among her many characters who, amid strange Kenyan landscape beautifully, along projects was Let it Go Louie, a detailed and extraordinary events, are with some of its colorful characters. R historical account of the Croatian fishing held captive for several days J Dappers is based (with permission) communities of Bainbridge Island and by bandits. The trip ends up on the real life R J Prickett, a game Puget Sound. Barbara co- Author Barbara Winther warden at the famous authored this fascinating Treetops Lodge. The book with Gary Loverich. Samburu tribesmen and It won the Washington wildlife all give the book Museum Association a magical sense of place. Award of Publication The other two novels are Excellence in 2010. equally endowed with Barbara is also a well- the same attention to respected expert in Native detail, from the Andes of American art and that of Peru and the cobblestone Canada’s First Nations. streets of Cuzco, to She has published many the rural west coast of articles in the prestigious Honshu, Japan and a American Indian Art family business making Magazine. Recently she good-luck tigers from completed a book with papier-mâché. Barbara’s Duane Pasco, an artist and novels are meticulously leading authority in the researched and the traditions of native art. countries to which she Duane Pasco: Life as takes her readers are Art looks at his life and recreated from diaries work, and how he helped bring about a and hunt their prey with stealthy skill. testing Allison’s courage as well as her and notes recorded on her travels. revival in Northwest Coast Indian art. These attributes can be seen in the marriage. If you would like to find out more about The book will be available in June of actions and development of the various In the final novel,The Tiger Barbara Winther you can visit her website this year. characters as they evolve and change Drums, attorney Chelsea Jarvis barbarawinther.com. The novels are published Big cats feature in the titles of throughout the novels. visits Tokyo to renegotiate a business by Old Bear Publishing and are available locally Barbara’s thrillers. She describes In The Jaguar Dances, Jan contract. While there she becomes from Eagle Harbor Book Company, or online.

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A visit to the Big Island The amazing Mrs. Teshima

By Barbara Winther On December 7, 1941, Mrs. Referring to their 70-year marriage, Teshima was told that the Japanese had she credits its success to “not working Each year for 25 years we have attacked Pearl Harbor. together or bothering each other. We escaped the Northwest winter for a “We went outside and looked were our own boss.” They had five month to enjoy the sun on The Big Island toward Honolulu to see if we could children and 12 grandchildren. Now of Hawaii, and while there, we often dine see anything. We saw nothing. During there are 27 great-grandchildren and 16 at our favorite Japanese restaurant. the war, we were so far away, that we great-great-grandchildren. Teshima’s, located in the little town weren’t much impacted by it except for On June 24, 2013, Mrs. Teshima, of Honalo, is just south of Kona. We were rationing and blackouts.” whose first name is Shizuko (given always warmly greeted by Mrs. Teshima However she recalls that nearby the name Mary by WWII soldiers who except for this year, when she had Japanese American ministers, language couldn’t pronouce it and called Grandma difficulty walking down the stairs from teachers and other key leaders were by relatives and good friends), will her house; so, it was our turn to visit her. rounded up by the U.S. Government and celebrate her 106th birthday. Amazing! Mrs. Teshima is slowing down a bit, sent to internment camps on the mainland. perhaps because she is 105 years old. Also, Army soldiers from the 106th Yes, 105, the eldest born in a family Infantry regiment were stationed in Information related to Hawaii of seven children (three girls and four Kona. “Homesick boys, only 18 or 19,” A History of Japanese Immigrants boys), Shizuku (Mary) Teshima has she says, “but they were all very nice.” in North America, Kazio It—has a outlived them all. When radio was in its infancy on The section on the Northwest and Pacific. When asked why she’s had such a Big Island, Mrs. Teshima remembers Air Raid—Pearl Harbor, the Story long life, she replies, “I’m optimistic. I how people gathered together to listen to of December 7, 1941, Theodore Taylor— don’t let stress or anger consume me.” the broadcasts as if they were going to examination from both American and Mrs. Teshima on her 101st birthday in 2008. She goes on to say, “My aim in life is the theater. “It was as if we were living Japanese points of view. to not hurt anybody. If you leave a scar, in a shell,” she says and chuckles. “With Hawaii, the Big Island Revealed, you can be forgiven, but the scar will “And we were surrounded by many today’s computers and cell phones, now we Andrew Doughty—Hawaii’s history, never go away.” superstitions, such as when you visit the can find out what’s going on in the whole culture, places, activities and restaurants, In the early 1900s her father, Goichi volcano, don’t throw anything or Pele world and that is good.” including Teshima’s. Disapointingly, Hanato, immigrated from Hiroshima, might get upset and spit out lava.” Over the years, the general store has however, the book doesn’t mention that along with her mother, Kiku, in an Today she doesn’t believe in the old evolved into a 230-seat restaurant. The a large number of Japanese came to the arranged marriage. Shizuko was born in superstitions, although she still respects secret of its longevity according to Mrs. island as immigrants in the early 1900s. 1907 in a Kona coffee field, not far from the spirit of Pele and when outside alone Teshima is that she looks for small things Okage Sama De (I Am What I Am, where her restaurant is today. at night, she tries not to believe in the and cares for them. DVD), Alton Chung—video recording She speaks of her childhood as her devil but feels something and gets scared. “Work is my medicine,” she says. of Chung telling five stories exploring “barefoot days.” A few years after arriving in Hawaii, Although she didn’t finish high Japanese American experiences in WWII. Often she stubbed her feet on the lava Goichi Hanato opened a general store, school, she values education. She is Teshima’s (online)—check out the rock that covers much of the island from tofu factory and taxi service. As a proud to be one of three women who restaurant’s website and Facebook. past volcanic eruptions. She used rags to teenager, Shizuko worked at her father’s took and completed the first Dale bandage up her bleeding toes. general store. It was there that she met Carnegie Public Speaking “In those days, I saw and heard things Fumio Teshima, an islander who worked Course offered in Kona. that made me believe the devil was as a mechanic for the Captain Cook She has always stressed to around—hiding in a mango tree, sitting Coffee Company. In 1926 they were her offspring the importance of on a lady’s head in her big bandana.” married, and in 1929 the couple took schooling and keeping an open (Today she thinks the devil might over the store. mind. have been a cat.) “In those early days we had no “Sometimes she still scolds Then there was the “Kona echo,” an electricity, so we used kerosene lamps,” us,” her granddaughter, Donna, eerie howling that used to frighten her. Mrs. Teshima recalls. “We made vanilla says with a smile, “but she also “It went Oooo, whoo. I thought it was and strawberry ice cream at night. My gives good advice.” a ghost.” husband hand grinded it, using Hawaiian Fumio Teshima died in (Much later she learned that the rock salt for the process. The ice came 1996. Mrs. Teshima (105) with her granddaughter, Donna sound came from the ocean hitting a cave from Hilo, way on the other side of the “A good honest man,” says Burnham, and Senator Inouye. Photo taken eight in Honaunau.) island. It was hard work, but it was good.” Mrs. Teshima. months efore his death in December 19, 2012.

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Here are the titles of the winners of a good time! Medal? A man is depicted racing through a village on and honorees. The full list can be found at www.ala.org. Tuesday, April 2, 10-11:30 am horseback, with geese frantically flapping Caldecott Medal Winner: This is Not My • Happy Birthday, Hans Christian Andersen! Enjoy stories from to get out of his way. The illustration is Hat, written and illustrated by Jon Klassen. around the world with storyteller Mahria Potter. All ages. from a book by Randolph Caldecott called This sparsely told story about a fish who has Tuesday, April 2, 2-4 PM • Scratch Programming. Grades 4-12. Scratch is a program The Diverting History of John Gilpin. stolen a much larger fish’s hat (it was much created by MIT that makes it easy to create your own online A few years ago, I attended the Fay too small for the big fish…) lets children stories, animations, games, music and art. Basic introduction B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival at the discover contradictions between the words followed by an open lab. Space is limited; sign up at the reference desk or e-mail [email protected]. University of Southern Mississippi as a and pictures. Graduate Student Ambassador. Among other Caldecott Honor titles: Extra Yarn Wednesday, April 3, 10:30-11:30 AM • Teddy Bear’s Picnic. Ages 0-6. Bring a teddy bear or stuffed perks, the GSAs got to spend an afternoon illustrated by Jon Klassen, written by Mac animal and join us for a picnic, complete with snacks, books exploring the DeGrummond Children’s Barnett; Creepy Carrots! illustrated by Peter to share, and music. We will have nurses from the Teddy Bear Literature Collection. It was the most Brown, written by Aaron Reynolds; Green Hospital on hand to repair those rips and tears and help them look just like new again. comprehensive collection devoted to books illustrated and written by Laura Vaccaro Thursday, April 4, 2-4 PM for children I have ever seen. Besides books, Seeger; One Cool Friend illustrated by • Haiku and Limerick Workshop. Grades 1-4. Celebrate it also houses letters, sketches, and manuscripts from David Small, written by Tony Buzzeo; and Sleep Like a National Poetry month by learning about these short, fun some of the world’s most beloved artists and writers for Tiger, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, written by Mary forms of poetry…and writing some of your own! children. Believe it or not, they owned a few of the original Logue. Saturday, April 13, 10-noon • Instrument Petting Zoo. Hear a preview from Bainbridge woodblocks that were used to print John Gilpin, and I got Newbery Medal Winner: The One and Only Ivan, Symphony’s upcoming concert and (gently) touch the written by Katherine Applegate. When Ivan, a gorilla instruments! All ages. who has lived his whole life in a down-and-out circus- Spring Storytime themed mall in Tacoma, WA, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that Reading Buddies New Calendar he must find her a better life. Monday, April 8 Wednesday, May 1 Newbery Honor titles: Splendors and Glooms by Volunteer Orientation Toddler storytime, 10:30 am Preschool storytime, 10:30 am Laura Amy Schlitz; Bomb: The Race to Build—and Tuesday, April 9 Monday, May 6 Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Do you like to read aloud? Baby storytime, 12:30 pm Toddler storytime, 10:30 am Sheinkin; and Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage. Do you like working with little kids? Wednesday, April 10 Tuesday, May 7 Preschool storytime, 10:30 am Are you looking for a way to volunteer in your Baby storytime, 12:30 pm Monday, April 15 Wednesday, May 8 community? Toddler storytime, 10:30 am Preschool storytime, 10:30 am Pajama Night – NEW! Are you free Tuesday mornings this summer? Tuesday, April 16 Monday, May 13 If you said “Yes!” then you might be interested Baby storytime, 12:30 pm Toddler storytime, 10:30 am Wednesday, April 17 Tuesday, May 14 Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m. in applying to volunteer at the library. The staff is Preschool storytime, 10:30 am Baby storytime, 12:30 pm looking for readers age 8 to 18 to join the library’s Monday, April 22 Downstairs Children’s Department Toddler storytime, 10:30 am Wednesday, May 15 corps of Reading Buddies. Preschool storytime, 10:30 am Tuesday, April 23 Bring the kids in their pajamas for an Baby storytime, 12:30 pm Monday, May 20 Orientation is May 23 Wednesday, April 24 Toddler storytime, 10:30 am open house style, unstructured library visit. A 30 minute orientation will be held on Preschool storytime, 10:30 am Tuesday, May 21 Read bedtime stories, do a craft, and enjoy Baby storytime, 12:30 pm Thursday, May 23 at 4 pm for people interested Monday, April 29 Toddler storytime, 10:30 am Wednesday, May 22 the cozy in volunteering this summer. Tuesday, April 30 Preschool storytime 10:30 pm atmosphere! This will give parents and kids age 8 and up the Baby storytime, 12:30 pm Storytimes take a break chance to decide if this volunteer opportunity will and resume in July. work for you. Attendance is strongly encouraged. Returning Reading Friend volunteers do not need to attend an orientation session. Please call Youth Services Librarian Sarah at 842-4162 for more information. Photo Credit: Susan Bisnett Photo Credit: Jack and Brad May relax and read at Pajama night open house. Photo Credit: Susan Bisnett Photo Credit: Harmony Star was our very first visitor to Pajama night Photo Credit: David Warren David Photo Credit: Lola listens to a story at preschool story time. open house.

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By STEFANIE GRAEN Teen Services Librarian 2012 Awards for Young Adult Books best nonfiction book published for young adults. Congratulations! In January, teens from the By Stefanie Graen Teen Services Librarian Winner: Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the Bainbridge and Port Orchard branches began a two- World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin. year term as nominators for the Teens’ Top Ten (TTT) Below is a highlight of the prestigious awards that In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory award. TTT is a national teen choice award sponsored were announced on January 23 at the ALA Midwinter made a shocking and simple discovery that launched by the Young Adult Library Services Association conference in Seattle. a scientific race across three continents to build the (YALSA), a division of the American Library Michael L. Printz Award. The Printz Award is an world’s most formidable weapon, the atomic bomb. Association. The award list consists of books published award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in Honor books: Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought the previous year for young adults. young adult literature. Different by Karen Blumenthal; Moonbird: A Year The groups from KRL, along with fifteen other Winner: In Darkness by Nick Lake. In the aftermath on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip groups throughout the country, read, review and of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor Hoose; Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah nominate titles of their choice. The top 25 titles gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in Hopkinson; We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham nominated by the groups are then voted on by all teens the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker Children’s March by Cynthia Levinson. throughout the country. During Teen Read Week in he has visions and memories of his life of violence, October, the top 10 winners are announced. his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L’Ouverture, who To learn more about the award and see the 2012 liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804. winners, visit www.ala.org/yalsa/teenstopten. Honor books: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz; Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein; Dodger by Terry Pratchett; The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna Morris Award. The Morris Award honors a debut book published pring alendar by a S C first-time Teen Early Release Mondays 2-4 pm author • Join us every Monday on early release day for some free fun writing for at the library. Get there when you can and stay as long as you want! For grades 7-12. teens and celebrating MARCH 25: Teen Writers Group Kick-Off • Join our first meeting of the teen writers group. Whether impressive you’re just getting started or have been working on your new voices writing for awhile, this group is for you. in young Ben Hauptman and Grace Bautista pose with their Teens APRIL 8: Movie & Pizza: The Hobbit adult Top Ten novels at Hyla Middle School. • Come and watch The Hobbit (PG-13). Ends at 4:45 literature. APRIL 15: Gaming Winner: Seraphina by Rachel Hartman. In a world Alex Awards. The Alex Awards are given to ten • We’ll go high-tech with the Wii and PS3, and low-tech with board games. Magic players bring your cards! where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce books written for adults that have special appeal to APRIL 22: Earth Day and and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose young adults. Poetry Month Celebration mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own Caring is Creepy by David Zimmerman; Girlchild • In honor of Earth Day and Poetry Month, we’re creating poetry identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while by Tupelo Hassman; Juvenile in Justice by Richard and art using newsprint and paper from the recycling bin. she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary Ross; Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin APRIL 29: Artist Group musical talents. Sloan; My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf; One Shot • Join our first meeting of the teen artist group! This group is for those who consider themselves artists and those who just Honor books: Wonder Show by Hannah Barnaby; at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a like exploring their creative side. Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo; After Magical Baseball Season by Chris Ballard; Pure by MAY 6: Gaming the Snow by S.D. Crockett; The Miseducation on Julianna Baggott; The Round House by Louise Erdrich; • We’ll go high-tech with the Wii and PS3, and low-tech with Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt; board games. Magic players bring your cards! YALSA Nonfiction Award. This award honors the Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple. MAY 13: Movie & Pizza: Star Trek (2009) • The release of Star Trek into Darkness is less than a week away! We’ll get ready by watching the first movie in this new series and eating pizza. MAY 20: Teen Writers Group • Whether you’re just getting started or have been working on eadline for June summer reading your writing for awhile, this group is for you. We’ll have fun prompts and themes to inspire you. D news and anniversary issue is May 1! Don’t you love a good yarn?

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By Dawn Simon Dylan’s children also have opinions of the book. I heard about Bainbridge Island author He said, “The kids have really enjoyed being Dylan Tomine’s book when a bookseller at at bookstore events and hearing me read stories Eagle Harbor Book Co. recommended it to me. about them. Skyla, in particular, feels some I assumed I’d enjoy it because it takes place on ownership for the book, and I think they’re both and around Bainbridge Island—and because proud of it. Victoria Irwin, the bookseller with whom I’d “Last October, I was invited to sign been speaking, knows her stuff. What I didn’t books at the guess was how beautiful the writing would be, Pacific Northwest and how I would continue to think about the Booksellers different ways the book spoke to me after I’d Association finished it. tradeshow, and The book, Closer to the Ground: An they suggested I Outdoor Family’s Year on the Water, in the bring an assistant Woods and at the Table, covers four seasons of to help manage Dylan’s life with his family as they forage, fish, the books and open and eat together. At his website, Dylan writes, them for signing. So “It’s about regular people trying to live a little I brought Skyla with closer to nature—especially through the process me, and we had a of food—with their kids.” great time. We enjoyed Dylan, a freelance writer and a conservation a ‘fancy’ dinner with advocate, runs Bainbridge Island Blueberry Co. the distributor’s rep, with his wife, Stacy. Author Dylan Tomine with his children, Weston and Skyla. and then went to the In the introduction of his book, Dylan signing.” describes when he and Stacy used to live in the At the Roundtable, he said Closer to the Ground “At some point, city. He spent his weekends and vacations fishing and started as a “verbal home movie to hold on to the someone asked if Skyla could sign a book next to my visiting outdoor destinations. He says, “But no matter minutes and the days the best he could.” signature. And then everyone started asking for her how hard I tried, I could never quite shake the sensation When I later asked what he learned through signature. So we sat side-by-side at the little table, signing of being a tourist in the activities that meant the most to documenting his family’s life for one year, he said, “I away together. What a great memory for both of us.” me…Somehow in pursuit of ‘real life’ I had lost touch think writing the book helped me identify the biggest I asked Dylan if he had any meaningful library with the real world and its day-to-day rhythms of tide, lesson I have to learn—and am in the process of memories from his childhood. weather, and season.” learning—from my kids. And that is to focus on the He said, “When I was a kid in Corvallis, Oregon, the Shortly after Dylan and Stacy’s first child, Skyla, was moment and enjoy the small things along the way, rather public library was in a big, old brick building downtown, born, the Tomine family moved to Bainbridge Island. than fixate on the end result, which is what I’ve done across from the park. It was a long bike ride from my In Closer to the Ground, Dylan writes about the most of my life. It’s really a ‘stop and smell the flowers’ house, but I went at least once a week, to pore through year Skyla was six and her little brother, Weston, was or ‘the path is the goal’ kind of lesson, and the kids are the books we couldn’t afford to buy. I can remember three. He captures fishing trips, clamming adventures, great teachers on this subject.” long, rainy afternoons sitting on the floor between and various searches for firewood, blackberries, and Knowing the author is such a great guy makes the stacks, trying to decide which books to check out, chanterelles. He gives mouth-watering details about reading the many excellent reviews all the sweeter. knowing that backpack space was limited. And then the preparation of the food, and his setting descriptions The Washington Post said, “…an eloquent chronicle racing home, hardly able to wait to start reading.” touch all the senses as our island and the surrounding of a likable family’s attempt to live a more nature- Closer to the Ground is gorgeously written, and areas come to life on the page. Tying the cultural history centric life…Tomine writes with respect and humor… Nikki McClure’s illustrations—detailed paper cuts—are and natural history of the region to personal events refreshingly unsanctimonious…a lovely homage to the lovely and a perfect fit with Dylan’s stories. throughout the book, Dylan discusses thought-provoking oldest seductress around: Mother Nature.” Dylan Tomine will be doing a “Kitsap Regional details, like the significance of Marshall strawberries on Bainbridge author David Guterson also reviewed the Library mini-tour.” For a chance to meet Dylan and Bainbridge Island and the long-term effects of hatchery book, saying, “Dylan Tomine’s Closer to the Ground is a hear him speak, go to the Poulsbo branch on April fish on the salmon population in Puget Sound. pleasure to read, depicting as it does the days and seasons 6 (2:00 p.m.), the Silverdale branch on April 8 (6:00 I had the opportunity to hear Dylan speak at a Field’s of a family intent on living joyfully, and providing at p.m.), downtown Bremerton on April 15 (6:00 p.m.), End Roundtable for writers titled, “Finding Stories in the same time a lively meditation on our relationship to Little Boston on April 22 (6:00 p.m.), or Manchester Everyday Life,” and then follow up with him for an nature. I found its buoyant, irrepressible, self-deprecating on April 29 (6:00 p.m.). To learn more about Dylan, interview. I was impressed with how incredibly nice and tone entirely winning, and was drawn in, happily, from you can check out his website and blog at www. modest he is. page one.” dylantomine.com.

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By CHAPPLE LANGEMACK Aaron is also the author of Loot, a massively KRL adult programming coordinator researched, critically acclaimed novel dealing with the modern-day consequences of Nazi art plunder, and Looking for someone to blame because you can no Turncoat, which explores a similar subject. He and longer turn on the TV without encountering CSI New Charlotte have just finished a follow-up to A Dangerous York, or CSI Chatanooga, or CSI Kuala Lumpur? Talent, a mystery starring art expert Alix London. Look no further. Aaron started it all back in 1982 Elkins is scheduled to receive the Lifetime when he introduced the celebrated Skeleton Detective, Achievement Award at Malice Domestic in May, in Gideon Oliver, in his very first novel, Fellowship of Fear. Washington DC. Malice is one of the three top mystery His latest novel, Dying on the Vine, will be the last conferences in the country. one featuring Gideon Oliver. Among his other awards are a best-novel Edgar and “I love the guy,” Elkins said. But “I’m running out of a Nero Wolfe Award. He and Charlotte hold a jointly things to say without repeating myself.” awarded Agatha. Dying on the Vine is set in Italy’s Tuscany Aaron’s books have been translated into a major countryside with forays to Florence where Oliver looks ABC-TV series and have been selections of the Book- into the apparent murder-suicide of a wine-making of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild, and the Readers family patriarch and his wife. Digest Condensed Mystery Series. In addition, his work In addition to his forensic novels, Aaron has a second has been published in over a dozen languages. series featuring art curator-sleuth Chris Norgren, and So come and join author Aaron Elkins for a little he and his wife Charlotte have collaborated on five “Tea and Mystery” at the Bainbridge Library on Friday, mysteries with female golfer Lee Ofsted. Aaron Elkins and friend. March 29 at 3 p.m.

Best sellers from January through mid-March Here’s what Bainbridge Islanders are reading Who’s reading what on Bainbridge today? Ann Patchett, State of Wonder Paul Benton, Discovering Bainbridge: Ron Chances are that some of the following titles are P. D. James, Death Comes to Pemberley Williamson’s Four Mile Walk circulating among your friends and neighbors as you Don Mackenzie, Religion Gone Astray: What We Stephen Chbosky, Perks of Being a Wallflower read this. Found at the Heart of Interfaith Fiona Carnarvon, Lady Almina and the Real These authors, many from the Bainbridge-Seattle Julian Barnes, Sense of an Ending Downton Abbey area, are the current best sellers at Eagle Harbor Book Christof Koch, Consciousness: Confessions of a Ann Combs: Once Upon a Two by Four Co. If you’re an Island resident or frequent visitor, Romantic Reductionist chances are you’ve met some of these popular writers at Robert Michael Pyle, Tangled Bank: Writings from the bookstore as they introduced their recent books. Orion Leading the list are Timothy Egan’s Short Nights Minds Eye Design, Magnet of the Shadow Catcher and Eben Alexander M. D.’s A Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife. George Saunders, Tenth of December: Stories Close behind them is Vaughn Sherman, who Edwin Ivey, Snow Child introduced his Sea Travels: Memoirs of a 20th Century Golden Books, Vintage Valentines Master Mariner at a recent appearance here. (It’s the Gilllian Flynn, Gone Girl story of the late Holger Chistensen, former owner of a Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Language of Flowers Winslow hardware store as well as a mariner.) Patrick Snow, Affluent Entrepreneur: 20 Proven Following the top three this year, to date, are the Principles for Achieving Prosperity following well-known authors, all of whom rank as best Brandon Sanderson, Memory of Light sellers: Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, Bernadette Paula McLain, Paris Wife Elsa Watson, Love Dog Markus Zusak, Book Thief Francesco Marciuliano, I Could Pee on This: And Friends of the Farms, Friends of the Farms Other Poems by Cats Cookbook: Celebrating the Bounty of Bainbridge Bob McAllister, Thief of Hubcaps

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By MICHELE MORGAN Gifford Pinchot, co-founder and president of the and find that month’s link to the upcoming AB SE lecture. Bainbridge Graduate Institute school. “We are deeply grateful for the support from The Bainbridge Island Public Library is a welcoming the Bainbridge Community Foundation that helps us community center with activities, programs and Incorporating sustainability is critical for the survival share our speakers with our community”. The BASE resources for all ages, reaching 250,000 visitors annually. of our planet for future generations. The Bainbridge Island series is partially funded via a grant from the Bainbridge Sustainable Bainbridge is a nonprofit organization Library offers a lecture series called “Building a Sustainable Community Foundation. Past speakers have included that supports collaboration among local organizations, Economy” in partnership with several organizations to Bert Gregory, CEO of Mithun Architects; Bob Willard, agencies, and individuals to create a more sustainable bring internationally renowned sustainability experts to consultant and noted author; and Adam Siegel, vice community. The Bainbridge Island Chamber of Bainbridge Island. The BASE series is offered through president of sustainability and retail operations at the Commerce serves more than 950 members and the a unique collaboration between the Bainbridge Public Retail Industry Leaders’ Association. community-at-large as a business advocacy organization Library, Sustainable Bainbridge, the Bainbridge Chamber of The BASE lecture series is offered free of charge to and lead agency for island tourism and economic vitality. Commerce and the Bainbridge Graduate Institute. the public. The lectures are scheduled for the second or The Bainbridge Graduate Institute offers educational “BGI brings in CEOs and leaders to feature in our third Friday of the month from 5:30 to 7 with reception programs in sustainable business, organizational Change Agents in Residence as part of our sustainable following in the Library meeting room. To learn more leadership, and entrepreneurship. BGI was the first school MBA program each month at IslandWood” stated about upcoming lectures, visit BainbridgePublicLibrary.org to offer an MBA in Sustainable Business.

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Books you may And one that’s Book sales have missed when brand-new this month launched Author, poet and lyricist S. L. Whyte released her by the debut young adult novel, Stelladaur: Finding Tir Na Some of the most popular books in late 2012 were Nog on March 1. the great fall reads recommended by Lori Skinner and The story focuses on Reilly, a teenager with Bainbridge others at the autumn gathering honoring Bainbridge extraordinary abilities who lives in an idyllic island town in Library volunteers. the Pacific Northwest. After his 16th birthday, everything If you, like many readers, missed these classics when changes. Unforeseen events threaten his confidence, his they first arrived, now is your chance to check them out, peace, even his life. . . and his courage is tested. Friends of possibly without waiting in line. In conjunction with Whyte’s novel, The Stelladauer The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Academy, Inc. is providing an online educational Skloot, got more than a little discussion among readers program for youths ages 13-19. Read more about the the Library during its season of heavy publicity. If you missed it novel and the academy at www.stelladaura.com and during the fall, chances are you won’t have to wait long www.stelladauracademy.org. for a copy this spring. It’s recommended by many staff A free reading by the author is scheduled for are held members and works well for discussion groups. This is Tuesday, April 23, at Huney Hall in the Bainbridge no lightweight comedy. Commons, beginning at 7 p.m. Seal Target Geronimo: the Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden by Chuck Pfarver is three times also no lightweight, and not everyone will want to know the inside story as written here. Deadline for news articles, Shine, Shine, Shine by Lydia Netzer may be more every month. appealing to some readers, and The Yellow Birds by photos and new advertisers’ Kevin Powers sounds like a great spring read. Also recommended by local librarians are A Land copy for the June Library News See the calendar More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash, A Surrey State is May 1st! for dates and times. of Affairs by Ceri Radford, and Big Red Tequila by Rick Riordan. Spring 2013 page 13 People Library activities in county and beyond Books afloat There’s good news Chat with Foundation Center experts in New York about your needs and questions, take short webinars on Are you a ferry for grant seekers your own schedule, follow blogs and share expertise commuter? There’s good news for grant seekers in 2013, says internationally. Read deep research reports and statistics, or Get ready to set sail Peggy Branaman, Kitsap Regional librarian. learn the basics. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned with your library. Non-profits, artists, students, and individuals looking for expert, these resources will take you to the next level. Beginning in April, grants or scholarships will want to check in with Branaman Want to get started right now? Visit www.krl.org, Kitsap Regional Library at the Foundation Center Cooperating Collection, the and select Foundation cooperating collection under will be on board once a premiere resource for finding all the private funders and Information & resources. Be sure to click into both week with a variety of foundations in the U. S., tens of thousands of them. “About the Foundation Center” and “FAQs” because rotating programs and You may have heard of the Foundation Directory those two pages are your gateway to the deep and services. online or the Foundation Grants to Individuals online, amazing resources you can use from anywhere. This series, called Susan Wiggs but did you know about the new Philanthropy In/Sight “This is not fluff. I went to Cleveland for training Books Afloat, will run mapping tools, and the vast array of training, knowledge and met the New York staff; they are amazing,” said every Thursday on the 4:40 Seattle-Bainbridge ferry. building, and expert advice at your fingertips? Branaman. One day you might hear an author talk about his writing process; on another, you may learn to download an ebook. Try joining in a book discussion, getting a reading recommendation from a librarian, or even checking out a book. Don’t miss hearing popular author Susan Wiggs talk about her newest book on April 25. Your Local Community Bank for 104 Years Watch for updates on www.krl.org, and find the next onboard book group title at http:// krlferrytales.wordpress.com. Kingston Library branch receives grant The Kitsap Regional Library, through the KRL Foundation, has received a $1 million grant to help build and furnish the new Kingston Branch Library in the Village Green. The announcement was made early this year at a general fundraising for the community project. Kol Medina, executive director of the Kitsap Community Foundation, said the grant was from a family fund. It was prompted by a previously announced $1 million Birkenfeld Trust grant to the Village Green Foundation. KRL Director Jill Jean said, “Visiting this library will be a memorable experience. It will be a place that will encourage people to return again and again.” The 5,000 square foot library space will be designed by Rice Fergus Miller Architecture and Planning of Bremerton. The Kingston library space today is 1,260 square in the community center on Highway 104.

Allen Funds to create For over 100 years, Kitsap Bank has mobile technical lab been committed to giving back to A $200,000 grant from the Paul G. Allen the communities in which we live Family foundation will be used to create a and work, and bettering the lives of mobile technical lab designed to serve Kitsap our friends and neighbors. To us, it’s County teens, especially those considered at risk, said Susan Colton, vice president of the what being a community bank is all Allen Foundation. about. “The Foundation believes in the mission and impact of local libraries, and the contribution they make to vibrant communities,” Colton said. “We want to help libraries maintain relevance and financial stability by building lasting and Congratulations, Bainbridge Island Library, on your 50th Anniversary! meaningful connections with their patrons, especially young people.” Jill Jean, KRL director, said “We believe 10140 NE High School Rd this grant gives us a way to launch what will Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 206-842-6637 be a long-term mission for KRL: Creating www.kitsapbank.com • 800-283-5537 “maker-space” resources to help patrons become creators and not just consumers of information.” People page 14 Spring 2013 Composting workshop comes to library in May

When: Friday, May 3. 1-2 p.m. Presented by John Barutt, Master Composter

Harness the complexity of soil biology with simple techniques that can be easily used to make compost. The rich surpluses from our Pacific Northwest gardens and landscapes can be converted into productive soils regardless of one’s expertise or physical ability. Topics covered include a quick overview of compost theory; types and handling of materials used in composting; styles of composting bins, including vermiculture; composting techniques, depending on individual expectations or limitations. If conditions permit, demonstrations at the BI Library Composting Plot will provide actual experiences to the lecture material. An extensive question and answer (Q & A) period is encouraged

as part of this workshop, as there is no such thing as Sackett by Joel Photograph a “stupid” question or concern. Brian Fish, John Barutt, and Rick Schneider compost plant waste at the Bainbridge library. news BRIEFS LIBRARY STAFF and volunteers thank the times, check the Library News calendar or visit krl.org. engraved tile in the north wall of the library, above the community for the many 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles TAX RETURN HELP is available at the library laptop bar. A limited number of tiles are still available donated recently. Since the last issue of the Library through AARP tax assistance volunteers. Free, walk-in through the Bainbridge Public Library board. To buy a News, when the need for puzzles was announced, more appointments will continue through Monday, April 15. Hours tile for your family, business, or community organization than 20 challenging puzzles were received. Did you are Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:30 to 1, Monday pick up an application form at the library checkout desk. give a puzzle? Be sure to pick one up for yourself in the evenings from 5:30 to 7:30, and Fridays, 1:30 to 4 p.m. NEWS AND ADVERTISING for the June Library puzzle exchange area near the large-print books. THE BAINBRIDGE LIBRARY has a new News is now being accepted. That summer publication will VISUALLY IMPAIRED persons and/or family collection of American Sign Language (ASL) films for celebrate 15 years of continuous publication by the Library members are always welcome at the regular monthly use by anyone with a Kitsap Regional Library card. News, the only community newspaper produced for and by meetings of the Visually Impaired Persons group at the These films are inA SL with English subtitles. It is the the citizens of Bainbridge Island that focuses on the Island’s library. North Kitsap as well as Bainbridge residents only collection of its kind in the Puget Sound region. central library. For more information, ask for a Library News attend regularly, and rides are available. For meeting LEAVE A LEGACY to your library by buying an packet at the reference desk beginning March 30.

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We wish to thank all those who generously gave to the Ken & Jette Hammer Philippe Lantin Peggy Obrien Fogliano Ken Schuricht Val & Mary Ann Tollefson Jewell Hanna David Larimore Peter & Wendy O’Connor Carol & Michael Schuyler Barbara Trafton Bainbridge Public Library this past year. Because of your Jane Hannuksela Vince Larson Theodore Oehlerking Steve Schwager Kathleen Travinsky support, the library was once again able to maintain its beautiful Barbara & Reid Hansen Roger Lauen Tom O’Hare Ernestin & Jay Schwartzman Edward M. Treanor Harriet Harburn William Lawrence Eileen Okada Elizabeth Scott Margaret & Richard Trent building and award-winning gardens. Mary Harmon Jim Laws Laurel & Robert Oliver Georgene Scott Steve Trick Peter Harris Alice Leach Theresa Olson R.J. Seaby Nicola Tugwell On Sunday, March 24, the board of directors for the Cynthia & David Harrison Judi Leader Carol & Tom Olson Seattle Foundation Cris Ugles Bainbridge Public Library will host a donor party to thank the Lynne Harrison Betty LeClair Laura O’Mara Michael J Sebastian Katherine Van Slyke Jean Hart Phil & Juliet LeDorze Bill O’Neill Anne & Morgan Seeley Johanna Vander Stoep hundreds of Island residents and friends who donated funds to the Carolyn Hart Tom & Carolyn Leigh Pat O’Rourke Marlene Seiford S Bradford Vaughan library, and Martha Bayley will give a book talk. There will also Svend Hartmann Robert & Sheila Leik Patricia M. Ostenson Howard J Sewell Doug Saksa & Peggy Visher Cynthia Harui Renee Leiter William H. Ostling Susan Shaffer Anne Voegtlen be live music. Christina Harui Marlene LeMire David & Debra O’Sullivan Carol Shakow Elaine & Jon Paul Next time you stop by the library, consider saying a quiet Ben Hattrup Jan Leo Jeffrey Owen Michael Cox & Barbara Shane VonRosenstiel Kyanne Hawkins Michael Leonard William & Charlotte Paine Michael Shankland Peter Vosshall thank you to your neighbors listed below. And if you’d like to Loretta Hayashida Anne Lertora Sylvia Palmer Dwight Shappell William & Connie Waddington join them, please consider picking up a pledge card at the library Ken Healy Kathryn Lesh Teree & Douglas Parman Sam Sharar Brenda Wakeham David & Helen Hecker Judy & Aaron Levine Partner Construction Products Jeffrey Sharp John Kenning & Jennifer information desk. –Linda Meier, President Russell Heglund Mark Levine William & Janet Pauli John & Marjorie Sharp Waldrom Bainbridge Library Board Richard & Cynthia Heine Michael & Nancy Lewars Althea Paulson Andora Sharpe Marcia Walker Richard Helm Mary Lewis Everett P Paup Cindy Shea Robert Walker Anonymous donors Janet & Christopher Brookes Sharon Dieterich S.J. & Evelyn Henderson Edwin Lewis John & Laila Paus James Sheldon Cebe Wallace David Abbott Milton & Donna Brookfield Joanne Dillon Gary Hendrickson Joyce & Tad Lhamon Valerie Payne David Sheldon Fatima Wallin Dick Abrams William Brose Shane Dir Annette Herber Jean Lichti Leslie Lehman & Richard Leslie Sherman Rick & Linda Walsh Anne Ackenhusen Vicki Browning & Jesse Tena L Doan Herbert Ihrig Aboretum #61 Dave & Sue Lindsey Pearsall Karyn Shirbroun Frederick & Elizabeth Walters Jamie Acker Browing Diggs Docter Jane Herman Joanne & Charles Little Karl Petersen & Joan Pearson William Shopes Stuart & Mary Jane Walton Nancy Adam Eric Brown Michael Donahue Herbert W Hethcote Jette Lord Debbie Peek David & Alice Shorett JoAnn Davis & David Ward Constance & Richard Albrecht Judith Brown Thomas Downs Mara Hilderman Ann Atwater Lovejoy Lisa Pena Diane Short Richard & Rebecca Watson Wayne Roth & Kathleen Alcala Leslie Brown Peggy Drew Julie C Hill Gary & Betty Loverich Barry Peters Beth Shreve Janice Waugh Jeanette Alexander Jeffrey & Denise Brown William Drewry Hilary Hilscher Geneva I Lowe Richard Peters Julie & Richard Shryock Melissa Weakly Kenneth Alexander George K Brown Constance Ducar Douglas & Christine Hoffman Edward S. 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Joseph & Sheila Wilcynski Bainbridge Community William Carruthers Thomas & Deborah Fenwick William Iulo Annette Maxson David & Frances Ran George & Evelyn Stege Dana Willerford Foundation Kate Carruthers Farrah Ferguson Gregory Jackson Stuart McAlpine Richard Randall Paul Steingel Stephen Willey Bainbridge Gardens Amy Chamberlain Simon Ffitch Tony Jacobellis Viki McCabe Linda Raquer Elaine Stewart Ann Williams Bainbridge Island Friends of Octavia Chambliss Carol Fiedler Kawaguchi Randall Jahren Mark McCann Arthur Ratcliffe Annette Stollman Delight Willing the Library Carol Chapman Thomas Fish Janice Jeffcoat Valorie McCarthy Robert L. Rausch Stone-Provan Family Judy Willott Bainbridge Vision Source Sandy Charyn L Donald Fisher Mike Johns Pamela McClaran Pete Raustein Lois Reitz & Richard Storch Michael Wilson Dr. Jeannette Franks & Dr. Ann Cheng Elizabeth Fisher Karoline Johnson Michael McCloud William Rayburn Gary Sundem Richard Wilson Richard M. 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Paul & Gayle Robbins Steve Thomas Bethene Wyatt Rebecca Beemer Sage Cohen William Galvani Susan Kasper Jill Jean & Charles Merrill Debra Robert Curtis Thompson Cathy & Glen Wyatt Karen & Tom Beierle Kathleen Colcord-Moen Denise Garcia Roger Katz Richard Meslang Martha Roberts Flora Thompson Nancy Yeilding Gary Benjamin Hal Cook Joan & Tomas Gardiner Shelley Kaurin Margaret Gordon & Pat Miller Clay Roberts Diane Thompson Don & Kay Yockey Abra Bennett Sue Cooley Jonathan Garfunkel Richard & Janet Keating Patricia Miller Christy Robinson Piper Thornburgh Jean M York Paul Benton Cloantha Copass Ruthann & Eric Gartley Mike Kelly Alan L Miller Merrill Robison Carol & Ross Thornburgh Dallas Young Josephine & Gerard Bentryn Patricia & Charles Corlett James Gartrell James Kelly Roger & Carolyn Miller Jodie Jones & Leland Rockoff Thornburgh Insurance Agency Oglesby & Pamela Young Bart & Dana Berg Malinda Cox Clark & Cookie Gaulding Omie Kerr Larry Mills Don Rooks Kathleen Thorne Andrew Zweig Joy Best Alison Craig Gregory Geehan Rebecca Kerstetter Eloise Mills Kay Root Carol Tice Benjamin Bevis Kemp Crawford Carol Ann Geier Edgar King Marian Miura Frances M Ross Carl Binder Rob Crichton George Gerdts Barbara King Norm Moehring Sada Ross David & Sharman Bingham Crissman Family Charitable Harry Gibbons Robert King David Moen Mary Anne Rossing Linda Birum Foundation William S Gilbert Karen King Elaine Moline Rotary Club of Bainbridge Lyman & Elizabeth Black Tom Croker David Mitchell & Lisa Giles Charles Kirchner Edwin & Dora Monk Island Alan & Sarah Black Phyllis Crooks Elliot Gitten Thomas Klein Marjorie Moore Wayne Roth Grant Blackinton Richard Crooks Mike Baggett & Christy Givans Bill & Dorothy Klein Carl Morgan Marcia Rudoff Christopher & Heidi Blair Tom Crowley David Glaze Bernard Klimek Sarah Morgans Alan & Joyce Rudolph Phyllis F Blissell Jill & John Croxford Dennis Goans Joyce Knutsen Sara Mossman Margaret Ruley Gladys Bloedow Mary Croy Kirk Godtfredsen Lilly Kodama Glenn & Mary Lynn Mounger Judy Ruliffson Joseph & Lisa Bohonos Cathy Cruikshank Frederick Goetz Stacey Koenig Pegeen Mulhern Chris Russell Connie Bonifield Thomas & Suellen Thomas Goodlin David Korten Linda Mulock Joan Rynearson T. William & Beatrice Booth Cunningham Missi Goss Kimberley Kouns Florence & Charles Munat Dean Sampson Eleanor Boren David Curran Daniel & Marilyn Gottlieb Tedd Kraff Judy Mundt Randal Samstag David Bothell Lois Curtis Laura B. 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The arts page 16 Spring 2013 BAC presents the Art at your library? 9th annual art

By LINDA MEIER, President from the reference desk in the library. is slated for November; and Susan book drive Bainbridge Public Library Board Joel Sackett, well-known for Wiersema will close out the year with his photography, is the featured her cat-theme paintings in December. When was the last time you looked The Bainbridge Public Library artist for March of this year. He is Bainbridge Island is home to at your textbook on Roman arches or has been hosting monthly exhibits of exhibiting a collection of last year’s many artists and to a community that the Matisse catalog you got at MoMA in works by local artists since 2009. The 50th anniversary images of daily life demonstrates great respect and appetite 1992? exhibits, displayed in the large meeting in our library. Jean Bradbury will for art, and the library is the ideal If you’re keeping your art books for room right off the foyer, have become show her paintings in April. In May, place for both to meet. As Caitlin posterity, consider giving them new life very popular with library patrons and Bill Hemp will exhibit his pen and Moran has observed, “A library in by donating them to BAC’s 9th annual with artists looking for an alternative to ink sketches of life on Bainbridge the middle of a community is a cross Art Book Drive, benefiting Bainbridge gallery space. As a result, the room is Island, and in June, you will see Neva between an emergency exit, a life raft Public Library. Bring in your books on booked well into 2014. Welton’s non-traditional photography and a festival. They are cathedrals of art, architecture, and design, and BAC The library participates in the First originating from images taken with a the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme will either donate them directly to the Friday Art Walk, and each month’s smartphone . Donna Snow will feature parks of the imagination.” Please join library or add them to the ever-changing featured artist hosts the event from 5 her Asian- themed collages in July, us for the First Friday exhibitions, meet selection on our shelves. to 7 PM. Their works are for sale, and Cleo Luther Forbes her animal-themed the artists, see their work and chat with If you don’t have books to pass each artist donates a portion of his or oils in August, and the Tuesday your friends. along but love reading about art, stop her sales to the library. More than 500 Painters will display their paintings in Artists interested in exhibiting may in to browse. For a donation of any people who gather for various functions various mediums in September. In contact [email protected] for amount, you can take home a new friend, in the meeting room view the current October, Nancy Heckler will show more information. For more information knowing that every penny will go back to display. And, though the meeting room her mother Janet Cramer’s award- about art in the meeting room or about the library to buy new books. Since the is locked when it’s not in use, patrons winning watercolors; Marcia Shaver, Bainbridge Public Library, please go to program’s inception in 2004, BAC’s Art can access the room by requesting a key who works with travel-based paintings bainbridgepubliclibrary.org. Book Drive has generated nearly $11,000 for the library’s collection! The BAC Gallery is open Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and April is National Poetry Month Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. A nonprofit organization founded By GAIL GOODRICK, Book Selector history of English poetry. You will find A Thousand Mornings by Mary in 1948, Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Kitsap Regional Library biographical information about the poets but Oliver is rich in the description of nature encourages the creation and appreciation also insight into their inner lives, thoughts and Oliver’s daily life along the coast of of fine contemporary art and craft by Beginning in 1996, poetry month was and creative processes. This is a book to Massachusetts. exhibiting and selling the work of inaugurated by the Academy of American pick up and savor over many occasions. Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Gluck, the Northwest artists, and by offering art Poets and it has been embraced by poets, American Isis: The Art and Life of author of eleven books of poetry, collects education to a county-wide audience of publishers, schools and libraries as an Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson is a new book poems from her whole career and is a all ages. occasion to celebrate poetry through about Plath which was inspired by newly wonderful way to experience a profound displays and events. Why do we need a released letters to and from Plath. We learn poet. Gluck has won the Pulitzer Prize and poetry month? After all, we don’t have that Plath was a precocious child who had the National Book Critics Circle Award as a novel month or a biography month. her first poem published at the age of nine. well as other honors. LIBRARY HOURS The sad truth is that poetry has become a From the earliest years she was ambitious Collected Poems by Jack Gilbert is Mon / Tues / Wed neglected art form in our time. In previous and driven towards success. Rollyson’s another career-spanning collection from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. centuries, poetry held a reigning position previous biography was of Marilyn Monroe a poet with a unique voice. Thurs 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and he uses Monroe’s short goddess-like The Game of Boxes by Catherine as the most important of all art forms. Fri 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Now many readers think of it as elitist or life as a comparison to Plath. Critics are Barnett is her second collection of poems Sat 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. difficult to understand. However, poetry saying the Monroe comparison is sometimes and they have been praised by Edward overdone but the author’s research and Hirsch as being “scrupulously restrained month allows us to look into this art form KRL WEBSITE ADDRESS and discover that it can still play a role in interpretation of Plath is fresh and inspiring. and beautifully made.” www.krl.org our lives today. Good poets can speak to My Poets by Maureen N. McLane And we shouldn’t forget the little us in a way that other writers cannot. It’s (a poet herself) introduces the reader to ones who can enjoy poetry for the sounds LIBRARY PHONE NUMBERS just a case of finding a poet that can strike her poets, that is, the poets she loves. If of the words alone. In the Sea by David Bainbridge Island Branch that chord in our souls. Here are some you are a poetry lover already, you will Elliott contains short poems inspired 206-842-4162 suggestions for exploration: enjoy reading her take on her favorites. by the sea accompanied by wonderful Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt If you aren’t already a poetry lover, this woodblock prints and watercolors by Bainbridge Public Library is a huge undertaking by Schmidt. His enthusiastic book will inspire you to try Holly Meade. These poems are meant to WEBSITE ADDRESS volume is a great way to explore the some of “her poets”. be read aloud! www.bainbridgepubliclibrary.org

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to pay respects to iconicSuyematsu’s farmer family spent the 1921, he took his first breath on first part of the war at a camp BY RICHARD D. OXLEY a Port Madison farm. near Death Valley, Calif., and Bainbridge Island Review When he was just 7, as the then later moved to a camp in Idaho. Connected since 1923 Akio Suyematsu lived a life oldest son of the family, his parents purchased farmland He left the camps by joining that touched America’s history off of Day Road in his name. the Army’s 442 Regimental and the heart of Bainbridge The Japanese Exclusion Act of Combat Team — an all-Japanese Island. American regiment — and The island’s iconic farmer the time made it illegal for his foreign-born parents to own was sent overseas as a military passed away on July 31. On land, but the American-born police officer in Germany. Sunday, Aug. 19, a celebration Akio could. The interment split apart of Akio’s life will be held from He grew up on the Suyematsu much of the Suyematsu fam- noon to 2 p.m. at the farm he family farm, prime farmland that ily; only a few returned to the Subscribe today and stay up to date on Island news, crafted for decades at 9229 NE produced strawberries, until area while others went to farms Day Road. in eastern Washington and The same day has been he graduated from Bainbridge High School, though, he missed Oregon. Suyematsu was one of a proclaimed by the city as “Akio his graduation ceremony. handful of Japanese citizens that Suyematsu Day.” Suyematsu, like all other returned to Bainbridge Island Suyematsu represented much islanders of Japanese decent, where he found his farm in dis- of what Bainbridge likes to boast Akio Suyematsu as a young man on Bainbridge were removed from the island. array and his home looted. Island, above, and later in life at his farm on about itself — honoring its rural “Akio was one of the few that The country had entered World Day Road. events, arts, schools, sports & more. roots, and valuing its local farms. returned after the war,” said his From the day he came into War II and citizens of Japanese ancestry were being rounded up this world, he was tied to the throughout the country and sent SEE AKIO, A7 island’s farming culture. Born to internment camps. on Bainbridge Island Oct. 30, HOW THE RACE WAS WON The Only Newspaper in the World that Cares about Bainbridge Island - Since 1923 Bainbridge proves crucial

in District 23 race forthat Hansen buttressed his domination on on Bainbridge Island — an area Bainbridge Island. 206.842.6613 • 888.838.3000 • www.BainbridgeReview.com Drew Hansen BY BRIAN KELLY that has only 20 percent of the 23rd The Review’s analysis of unofficial AND HENRI GENDREAU District’s registered voters. returns through Aug. 7 found that Bainbridge Island Review Olsen remained unfazed at across Kitsap County, Hansen pulled in more than 60 percent of the vote Rep. Drew Hansen used a home Hansen’s hefty lead on the island, and vowed to campaign across the in 24 precincts. field advantage to turn a fellow county, regardless of where he In nine of those precincts, he won islander into an outsider in the found support. big, with more than 70 percent of 23rd District, Position 2 race. “I’m going to spend a proportional the vote. All but one of those pre- Although Hansen, the Democratic amount of time talking to voters cincts was on Bainbridge Island. incumbent, and James Olsen, the in precinct on Bainbridge Island,” His strongest support, in terms Republican challenger, both claim Olsen said. “I’m not necessarily of the percentage of vote won, the island as home, an analysis of going to go where I have support to came in the precinct of S’Klallam, precinct returns by the Review in begin with.” the precinct made up mostly of the James Olsen the Aug. 7 election show Hansen Hansen and Olsen will advance to Port Gamble S’Klallam Reservation, was the overwhelming choice of November’s General Election in the where Hansen collected 75 percent Bainbridge voters. of all ballots cast. That said, turnout Hansen’s impressive showing on race. The latest unofficial vote tally has Hansen with 52 percent of the was just 10 percent in the precinct. Bainbridge Island, where he won vote, while Olsen has 40 percent. Hansen’s victory was solidi- every precinct by 40 percentage Although Hansen failed to get a fied instead by his home turf of This bubble chart points or more, was also key to his shows the wide majority in most of Kitsap County’s Bainbridge Island. The incumbent first-place finish in the 23rd District. precincts — he won outright in only difference in votes Unofficial precinct results show the SEE CRUCIAL, A20 picked up by each 34 of a total 206 — the incumbent first-term state lawmaker picked candidate across = 100 VOTES found small pockets of support Bainbridge Island up a third of his overall vote count precincts. Brian Kelly / Bainbridge Island Review