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 ORAL HIST O RIES : 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 BELLEVUE SC hoo LS - Class photos and ephemera, CURRICULUM : 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 ICE : 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 LLECTI 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 STRAW B ERRY FESTIVAL : 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 FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES : 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.