HERITAGE REFLECTOR March 2013 Volume XIII Issue I

Vision To be a destination heritage Something to ‘cluck’ about! museum and research facility that enhances Jane Morton excited about community identity Education Coordinator the possibility through the preservation of having a and stewardship of the Thanks to the vision of both similar hands- Eastside’s history. Stu Vander Hoek and Tim on activity Johnson, Eastside Heritage right here in Mission Center now has its very own Bellevue. interactive chicken coop To steward Eastside history complete with faux chickens Tim called by actively collecting, and wooden eggs! the Museum preserving, and interpreting Curator in documents and artifacts, This will be a perfect addition Colorado and by promoting public to our farm activities both at for further involvement in and KidsQuest Children’s Museum information appreciation of and Kelsey Creek Fraser Cabin. and then built this heritage through Kids will be able to collect eggs EHC our very are kept with nest boxes for educational programming in baskets, weigh them, and see own modified version with a egg-laying. The number of and community outreach. how much they were worth in roof and the ability to travel! small coops in urban areas the late 1880s. What could you He purchased an antique egg has been growing with many buy from selling your eggs? scale; got the wooden eggs families enjoying fresh eggs from a company in Texas; each day! and the stuffed chickens from

In this a company in Snohomish The EHC chicken coop will (websites are so helpful!) make its debut at the April 18th “Farm Life” event at KidsQuest Tim also figured out a way for Issue Children’s Museum. kids to produce chicken sounds Collections Corner...... 2 with the simple method of Recent Accessions...... 2 using a plastic cup, a piece of History in the Making ...... 3 string, a paper clip, and a small Wish List...... 3 The Vander Hoeks discovered amount of wet paper towel. President’s Message...... 4 a chicken coop activity on a These noise makers will be a Programs ...... 5 recent trip to the new History craft that kids can make after Thank You...... 6 Colorado Center in Denver. Stu they weigh the collected eggs. Volunteer Corner...... 7 took pictures of the coop with EHC Membership ...... 7 kids collecting eggs and EHC Technically, a chicken coop is a staff and volunteers got really building where female chickens Page 2 Heritage Reflector March 2013 Recent Collections Corner Accessions Sarah Frederick Thank you for your donations Collections Manager to the collection: Currently, students are Betty Miller & Marge Qualls Or a l Hi s t o r i e s : learning about culture and community from case studies - Soroptimist Club scrapbooks, Eastside Heritage Center is outside of Washington. This 1960s-1990s. lucky enough to have three project will help students new Oral History Interns. learn about community by Karen Klett Oral history interviews are studying the one in which - Ladies gloves and “Old a rich historical source, and they live. Bellevue” documents and often provide a different (and ephemera. sometimes colorful) take on EHC will be providing history. primary source documents Lillian Garland like oral histories, government - Ladies Alpaca coat. EHC continues to collect new records, letters, and journal Above: Volunteer Katie Hewaitt oral histories, making it more Mary Ellen Piro entries, as well as historic transcribing census records, letters - Bellevue schools artifacts. pressing to begin work on maps and photos from ten and journals. transcribing interviews already Eastside families. Students in our collection. We now will compare Bellevue now, Mike Evered record oral histories digitally, with Bellevue of the past. The Volunteers have been hard - Evered Auto materials. which makes sharing the audio new 2nd grade curriculum will at work typing up the 1910 file on a website or as an email focus on the things that make a and 1940 handwritten census Emily Anderson attachment quite easy. Prior community. Third graders will documents and re-typing old - Hilltop Community annuals. to that oral histories were learn about the culture of their handwritten letters and journal recorded on cassette tapes – community and why people entries to make them easier for Kim Radcliffe remember those? decide to move to a certain kids to read. - Reel to reel tapes of Bill place. The families studing for Radcliffe’s art program from The interns have started the 3rd grade curriculum will The 2013/2014 school year is KCTS, 1970s. transcribing the cassette tape all be immigrant families. the targeted start date for the interviews first, in an effort to new curriculum, and EHC is Ken Schiring transfer the information before At the end of the lesson each looking foward to featuring the - Hungerford Farm photos, the tapes begin to deteriorate. student will have created a project at the Bellevue Spring 1970. portfolio of items for their own for Schools luncheon in May. The time spent transcribing the family that contains similar Leslie Lloyd interviews will be well worth items found in the portfolio of - Photos from the 1982 and 1983 it. Both the typed transcripts their “historic” family. Bellevue Jazz Festival. and digitized audio files will make these important pieces Jeanna Sutherland of our community memory - Refrigerator Helps booklet, much more accessible to 1930s. researchers and history fans. Anne Regan Be l l e v u e Sc hoo l s - Class photos and ephemera, Cu r r i c u l u m : Woodridge Elementary, 1960s.

Thanks to a grant from Marilyn Adams the Bellevue Schools - Bellevue 20/20 Anniversary Foundation, Eastside buttons. Heritage Center has begun working with Patty Don Ulrich Shelton from the Bellevue - Bellevue High School 1955 School District on a project 50th anniversary DVD. redesigning a unit in the social studies curriculum for Diana Ford 2nd and 3rd graders. Above: Hunferford Farm site, 156th Ave & NE 24th St., Bellevue, 1970. Photo donated by Ken Schiring. - James Ditty family photos. March 2013 Heritage Reflector Page 3 History in the Making - Bellevue Brewing Company

Sherry Grindeland in England, the EHC Trustee University of Arizona and University of drink. It’s a fresh food, not Historical note: We believe Hawaii and USC – he something that should be aged Bellevue Brewing is the first went into banking like wine. That’s what we’re independent commercial brewery and commercial real trying to achieve. Putting out to ever open in Bellevue. estate. Today he a local, fresh, high quality owns and operates product.” John Robertson wanted Robertson Capital, some good, fresh beer when also based in Bellevue. EHC is looking forward to he dreamed about opening That’s his serious partnering with Bellevue his own brewery. He had no side. Brewing to share the Bellevue intention of writing a chapter story with the community of Bellevue history in the “The brewery is through displays and creative process. He accomplished Thank You my fun,” he said. “I programming. both when his Bellevue want this place to be Brewing Company officially fun, a place for good Visit the Bellevue Brewing opened December 20, 2012. food and drink and I Company at It is, according to Eastside wanted it to feel like 1820 130th Ave NE, Suite 2 Heritage Center’s records, the an extension of your www.BellevueBrewing.com first independent brewery in living room.” the city. Above: Brew Master, Tony Powell, hard at work. of grape juice. But pour His goals in opening Since the December opening, Wish List Robertson a glass of beer and the Bellevue Brewing Company Robertson and brewery master he can expound upon the included not just sharing his EHC is seeking Tony Powell have already multiple flavors and nuances. love of beers. He envisioned the following donations: served a variety of beers crafted a community hub that was on site. The giant stainless steel Fo r t h e Off i c e : He knew he liked beer from comfortable enough people equipment in the back room - Label Maker. the time he was old enough to could bring their families for of the brewery have already drink, but it wasn’t until he a casual meal while enjoying a - Self-healing cutting mat. produced an acclaimed oatmeal spent a month in Germany in hand-crafted beer. He picked stout, popular India pale ale, a the 1990s that he discovered his the brewing site – in a small Fo r t h e Co l l e c t i o n : good Scotch ale, and a lip- talent. commercial building on 130th - Photos, documents and smacking version of an extra- Avenue Northeast – because ephemera related to the Bridal special bitter. They’re working “I went to Germany to practice he’s excited about the location Trails neighborhood and park. on a rotation of seasonally my German and ended up in the Bel-Red corridor. appropriate brews as well as - Polk Directories, pre-1950 working my way from yellow more specialty beers in the beer to serious beer,” he said. “I The menu features an array Fo r St r a w b e r r y Fe s t i v a l : upcoming months. learned a lot of things such as of appetizers, salads, soups, - Historic books, magazines, beer is better consumed when handmade pizzas, sandwiches, sheet music and other All the brews must have it is fresh and that beer has and a line-up of enticing publications for EHC’s used Robertson’s seal of approval been around for thousands of desserts. The house chili is book sale. before they’ll be served. years.” enriched with the house stout. He’s banking on his own Fo r Fu n d r a i s i n g Ac t i v i t i e s : discriminating taste. Turns out - Shoes and Handbags in Robertson came home from He plans to offer a new beer the nearly life-long Bellevue excellent or new/never worn that trip focused on his career, every six weeks and said that’s resident has a gift. “I finally condition. not on beer. He returned to his one of the advantages of local realized I have a palate for Bellevue roots. He was raised brewing. People will be able to beer,” he said. Give the man To Donate Items: in Bellevue and is a graduate get fresh beer. a glass of wine and he can’t of Newport High School. call 425-450-1049 or email distinguish a hint of apricot collections@ After college – which included “A lot of people don’t realize,” from an underlying essence eastsideheritagecenter.org time at Cambridge University he said, “that beer is a now Page 4 Heritage Reflector March 2013 Eastside Heritage Center President’s Board of Trustees Kim Radcliffe Michael Luis Ray Higgins Message President Treasurer Tim Johnson Kathleen McDonald Karen Klett Trisha Nerney Ross McIvor child when they see cream 1st Vice President Secretary Bernice Nurse turn into butter - and they did Kent Oshiro that! Then we tell them that Betina Finley Rick Carlson Ken Schiring 2nd Vice President Brian Casserly Jan Van Blaricom probably would have been Reagan Dunn Stu Vander Hoek one of their chores, AFTER Sherry Grindeland milking the cow, and all before school. Hands-on history is a Staff wonderful way to connect with Heather Trescases Sarah Frederick Jane Morton and appreciate what everyone Executive Director Collections Manager Education Coordinator who came before us did for their community.

Endorsers I love EHC for the people. The Kim Radcliffe Bob & Clodagh Ash Tom Ikeda Lee Springgate staff, volunteers, fellow board Margot Blacker Carol James Bill Ptacek President members, and you, the public George Brace Fred Jarrett Colin Radford that we serve. Every time I Bob Burke Sarah Langton Daphne Schneider Why I love Eastside Heritage Center go to McDowell (with the Nan Campbell Pamela Lee David Schooler squeaky screen door like my Dick Chapin Ken Johnson Karl Thunemann Often after big events or busy Grandma’s), I am surrounded Doris Cooper Leslie Lloyd John Valaas months at EHC, I like to reflect by people dedicated to Mike Creighton Doreen Marchione Janice & on why I came to EHC, and preserving and caring for the Jean Floten Dan McDonald DP Van Blaricom Kemper Freeman, Jr. Louise Miller Bob Wallace why I stay. Not only does it stories of “us”. While we all Stacey Graven Rose Nohara Scott Wallace help energize me for the next have our different reasons for Jerry Henry Bob Nuber Rosalie Whyel round of activities, but it helps being a part of EHC, I know Ross Hunter Ron Sher remind me of how far we have we all share the same passion come, and what we need to of serving our community by Charter/Founding Members focus on next. connecting us to its roots. My grandfather, also a history Brad Best Louise Miller I love EHC for the stories. major, used to tell me stories John Betrozoff Alex Modelski Whether you have lived here of my family and my roots C.Keith Birkenfeld Charles Morgan growing up. He did it because Richard & Margot Blacker Bob Neir one month, one year, or your Charles Bovee Phil & Shelley Noble entire life the “stories of us”, he said those roots would both Dianna Broadie C. & W. O’ Donell the eastside community, show anchor me and allow me to John Cannon Arnold Olson what we have always been: grow and bend in the winds of Karyl Dean Sally Polk a group of people solving change. Thanks Grandpa, I try Steve & Kathy Dennis Connie Reed problems, and building to honor that every day at EHC. Phyllis Fenwick Betty Ann Rizk community. I am honored to be Diana Ford Bob & Pat Sandbo one of the many caretakers of I recently ran across a North Peter Gulick Victor Scheffer these stories, and the photos, American Indian saying: Birgit Hansen Daphne Schneider “Tell me a fact, and I will learn. Tell Peggy Hansen Dick & Susan Schwasnick articles, and artifacts that help Bob Hennig Barbara Sharpe us tell these stories. me a truth, and I will believe. Tell me Thomas K. Hitzroth W. & V. Thompson a story and it will live in my heart Bill Lagen Karl Thunemann I love EHC for the creative and forever.” Charles Le Warne Iris Tocher innovative ways we share these Anne Long D.P. & J. Van Blaricom stories with the community. This is something the staff and Jim & Pat Loughran Stuart Vander Hoek We could tell you what it was volunteers at EHC get to do Karen & Duke Luetjen Libby Walgamott like to live in a cabin in the every day, live in someone’s Louis & Patty Marsh John Walker woods in the late 1800’s or heart. This is why I love Beatrice Mathewson Doug & Patti Ward Eastside Heritage Center. Philip Maxeiner James & Gwen Warren we can have you churn some Lee Maxwell Robert & Barbara Welsh butter or grind some corn John McClelland Rosalie Whyel or coffee. There is nothing Now...bring on the Strawberry Rosa McDonald Marcy Williams as wondrous as the face of a Festival! March 2013 Heritage Reflector Page 5

Fo r m o r e i n fo r m a t i o n Upcoming on any Eastside Heritage Center programs, Programs visit www.EastsideHeritageCenter.org Eastside Heritage Center’s Ha n d s -o n Hi s t o r y a t Ki d s Qu e s t Ch i l d r e n ’s Mu s e u m Strawberry Festival in Bellevue Re m e m b e r i n g t h e Pa s t , Look i n g t o Saturday, June 22 - 10am-8pm t h e Fu t u r e : Pe r s o n a l Ti m e c a p s u l e s Sunday, June 23 - 10am-5pm Date & Time: Thursday, March 21, 2013, 5PM - 8PM Crossroads International Park Remember the past and look to the future by making a personal time capsule. What is the world like in 2013? What will it be like e t n v o l v e d in 10, 20, 30, even 100 years? Bring items to put in your capsule, G I ! label it and then use a traditional canning machine to seal your Spo n s o r can to be opened at a later date. Sponsorships range from $250 to $4,000 and will provide your company with valuable exposure, while supporting Ea s t s i d e Fa r m Li f e this community event and EHC. Date & Time: Thursday, April 18, 2013, 5PM - 8PM Vo l u n t e e r To help run the Festival. Each volunteer receives a t-shirt Celebrate Bellevue history with the use of a corn shelling machine and complimentary strawberry shortcake for helping out. and corn grinders. Take home some of the ground corn and feed it to the birds who are always hungry in the spring! Collect Ha v e a Ve n d o r Boo t h eggs from a chicken coop and weigh them. Churn butter like the To reach the community with your goods and services. pioneers. En t e r y o u r Cl a s s i c Ca r Presented by Eastside Heritage Center, in partnership with KidsQuest Participate in the annual Classic Auto Show, with prizes Children’s Museum, as part of Third Thursday Nights FREE. KidsQuest is for Best of Show, Best of Decade, Youth’s Choice, Most located inside Bellevue’s Factoria Mall. Stylish Ride, Oldest at Show, and more! Please join us in support of the Fr a s e r Ca b i n He r i t a g e Pr o g r a m s 2013 Strawberry Festival!

Date s& Times: Saturday, April 27, 2013 (Sheep Shearing Event) To get involved: Contact Jennifer Heintz at 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM 425-450-1049 or email [email protected] Saturdays, May 18 & June 15, 2013 www.BellevueStrawberryFestival.org 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Location: Kelsey Creek Farm Park, Bellevue Visitors are invited to participate in hands-on activities that Ea s t s i d e Co a l Mi n i n g relate to early Eastside settler life at the historic 1888 Fraser Cabin. Eastside Heritage Center staff and volunteers present the Date & Time: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 activities and interpret the log cabin that was built and occupied 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM by the Fraser family over 100 years ago! Location: Microsoft Store (Bellevue Square)

Presented in partnership with Bellevue Parks & Community Services. This program focuses on 100 years of local coal mining. In 1888 there were 20 mules and 200 men employed here! Coal mining 2013 Fraser Cabin Heritage Programs was the Eastside’s first major industry, producing millions of are sponsored by: tons of coal to be shipped from Seattle to San Francisco at the turn of the 20th century. March 2013 Heritage Reflector Page 6

A warm thank you to all those who supported the 6th Annual Heritage Benefit Dinner Thank You on February 7, 2013 at the Meydenbauer Center. Your generosity raised over $42,000 towards 2013 He r i t a g e Be n e f i t Di n n e r the stewardship of Eastside history. Spo n s o r s Photos are available at www.TeamPhotogenic.com, Event # 22173

Heritage Stewards

Homesteaders

Fa m i l y of Lu c i l l e McDo n a l d Su De v e l op m e n t Ti m & Ed i e Joh n s o n Wa l l a c e Pr op e r t i e s

Pioneers The Bellevue Club Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP KC Councilmember Jane Hague, District 6 Kerry Radcliffe Peterson Russell Kelly, PLLC The Spring District

Sp e c i a l Th a n k s

520 Bar & Grill Roberta Greer Trisha Nerney Amore Chocolates Jane Hague Bernice Nurse Barrier Motors Paul Hahn Pan Pacific Hotel Bellevue Brewing Hedge & Vine Kim Radcliffe Bend Soap Co. Hotel Bellevue Sa-Go Auto Geoff Bradley Heathman Hotel Seafair Brevin’s Fudge Heavy Restaurants Lynn Sherk John Cannon Karen Klett The Spot Off Main Cantinetta Warren Koons Team Photogenic Rick Carlson Steve Lawson Heather Trescases Chateau Ste. LeMay Museum Stu & Karen Michelle Sharon Linton Vander Hoek Reagan Dunn Michael Luis Volterra Restaurant Betina Finley Sabrina Matson Kevin Wallace Anna Flora Ross McIvor Barb Williams Diana Ford Meydenbauer Ctr. Gilbert’s on Main The Microsoft Store Sherry Grindeland Nordstrom March 2013 Heritage Reflector Page 7 Eastside Heritage Center MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Volunteer Corner MEMBERSHIP LEVEL: □ Benefactor $1000 □ Contributor $100 At the EHC Annual Meeting □ Steward $500 □ Family $40 □ Supporter $250 □ Individual $25 in January, we recognized our □ Organization $100 □ Student $15 2012 Volunteers of the Year: Barb and Steve Williams. Enroll me as: □ New Member □ Membership Renewal □ Gift ______Steve started volunteering MEMBER’S NAME on a regular basis with EHC ______in 2006, and quickly became ADDRESS our “go-to guy” on anything related Eastside coal mining ______history. Steve has a passion CITY/STATE/ZIP CODE for research and sharing this ______knowledge with the public, PHONE which he has done in many diffent ways: through his discover other facets of what ______EMAIL contributions to EHC’s Lake EHC does, in particular in the Washington - the Eastside Arcadia area of collections. Barb has This membership is a gift from: publication; the development extensive knowledge of our and presentation of programs Native American collection; ______on coal mining and another she presents fascinating PAYMENT INFORMATION: on “John Anderson’s 1909 ethnobotany walks and talks; Steamboats;” and as a ‘living she assists with Natural □ Check (make checks payable to the Eastside Heritage Center) □ Credit Card history’ logger/farmer for Resources Week programming □ Visa □ Master Card □ American Express programs at Larsen Lake and in partnership with Bellevue Kelsey Creek Parks. Steve is Parks; and she is ready to do ______the primary researcher for new whatever is needed to help NAME ON CARD interpretive signage in Coal around the McDowell House ______Creek Park and has led history every Thursday. CARD # hikes there every year since 1979. Barb and Steve have become ______EXP. DATE V-CODE (last 3 digits on back of Visa/MC) regular Winters House hosts Many remember Barb as one Saturday a month, drawing Additional Contribution: ______Total Enclosed: ______the Education Coordinator on their extensive knowledge at Marymoor Museum and of local history to provide □ My company will MATCH my gift then Eastside Heritage wonderful tours for the public. Center for 14 years. Upon And, EHC can always count Company Name: ______her retirement in 2008, Barb on their assistance for exhibit The Eastside Heritage Center is a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization. immediately stepped into installations and display cube the shoes of a very dedicated transportation all around PLEASE MAIL THIS FORM AND PAYMENT TO: Eastside Heritage Center and enthusiastic volunteer – the Eastside. Thank you and P.O. Box 40535 Phone: 425-450-1049 excited for the opportunity to congratulations, Barb and Steve! Bellevue, WA 98015 Fax: 425-450-1050 www.EastsideHeritageCenter.org All Eastside Heritage Center Members receive:

- Membership Card Supporter - $250 - Quarterly Newsletter with historical features and program updates Receives Organization benefits, plus: - Invitations to exhibits and programs Historic photo reproduction - 10% discount on books and gift shop items Organization (schools, scout troops, etc) - $100 Receives Contributor benefits, plus: CATEGORIES: Free Treasure Box rentals Benefactor - $1,000 Discounts on field trips and classroom presentations Receives Steward Benefits, plus: Contributor - $100 Honored at Annual Event Additional benefits include: Steward - $500 Access to Archives fee waived Receives Supporter benefits, plus: Family - $40 Special publication Individual - $25 Curator’s Tour of the collection Student (under 18 years of age) - $15 EASTSIDE HERITAGE CENTER CONTACT INFORMATION

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 40535, Bellevue, WA 98015 Tel: 425-450-1049 Fax: 425-450-1050 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.eastsideheritagecenter.org

McDOWELL HOUSE (EHC Administrative Offices) Visiting Address: 11660 Main Street, Bellevue, WA 98005 Tel: 425-450-1049

WINTERS HOUSE (National Historic Site and EHC Research Services) Visiting Address: 2102 Bellevue Way SE, Bellevue, WA 98004 Tel: 425-452-2752 Hours of Operation: EHC Research Office Hours Tues., 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Winters House Public Visiting Hours: Tues 10:00 AM-4:00 PM ; Thurs-Sat 10:00 AM-2:00 PM ; Closed Mon, Wed & Sun.

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