Music traditions continue!

Music has always been part of our history – the Stillaguamish Band was always on hand for events to celebrate our community!

Thanks to the South End String Band for their great lively music Saturday nite!
They win our local Grammy award for best band.  And thank you to all of those attendees who supported the Stanwood Area Historical Society with their donations!

This weekend was also the Camano Schoolhouse Foundation’s unveiling of its new Jack Gunter mural for the former fire station building which will become an exhibit area for Camano Island history.  Along with that they are preparing to raise the school bell to the roof of our local historic schoolhouse.

Support preservation of our local history ! If you couldn’t make it to the concert, you can still support our local history and its preservation with your membership or donations!
(See our paypal/credit card link on the sidebar!)

Also – note that Seattle music historian and recent SAHS speaker Peter Blecha posted a bio about local musician Zona Lillian McConnell (1884-1977) who lived on Madrona Beach on historylink.org !

 

 

 

Local History Winter Reading

Join us to support programs, museum exhibits and projects for the coming year!
Renew your membership.  Click here! or download the pdf form here.

Winter reading about local history – see our list of books by members and research about Stanwood and Camano local history.
And our list of past newsletter articles about local historyl

Recent titles include To Seek the Smiles of Dame Fortune about the Klondike Gold Rush.

And Solemn the Drums Thrill
Both by Richard A. Hanks available at SAHS –
Contact us to arrange pickup or drop by Wed or Saturdays 1-4 pm when exhibits are open.

December Programs

Then the final in our Fall programs series:

“Leque Island – From Island to Tidal Marsh”

December 11th, 2022
Sunday afternoon
4 – 6 pm

Guest Speakers: Loren Brokaw & Lindsey Desmul –

Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and partners transformed the landscape between Camano Island and Stanwood over the last three years by removing dikes and returning the area to tidal marsh.  This area is called Leque Island and it now has an elevated walking trail that has been popular with the community.  In this presentation, WDFW staff will cover the site history, the story of how the restoration project came to be, and the results of what has been observed since the project.
For a history of Leque Island, here is an article from a 2004 issue of the SAHS newsletter Stanwood Area Echoes.
This will be an in-Person program at the Floyd

2004 view of Leque Island from the old Mark Clark Bridge looking southwest.  The Eide House has not yet been removed and the white in the distance are snow geese.

.This program and the three other programs were funded through the Snohomish County Historic Preservation 2022 Grant.

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Stanwood Camano Arts Advisory Commission
OPEN HOUSE:
Come see what the SCAAC Community is all about!
Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center
27130 102nd Ave NW
 
Dec 15th from 5:30 – 7:30pm (free)

Part holiday party and part artist salon, this casual event invites everyone to celebrate all that SCAAC has done this year. We’ll be featuring the collaborative art project with the Stanwood Area Historical Society, doing kid art projects. revealing more of the MAC and so much more.

This event is open to the public – come one, come all!
[More details and RSVP on our website.]
www.scaacwa.org
facebook.com/scaacwa
instagram.com/scaac_wa

November Programs

Click the image for info on the History Lecture: “Dreamland: The Lost World of James Tilton Pickett, 1857 – 1889”
Guest Speaker, Gwen Whiting, Lead Curator, Washington State Historical Society

Nov. 13, 2022,
History Lecture: “Dreamland: The Lost World of James Tilton Pickett, 1857 – 1889”
Guest Speaker:
Gwen Whiting, Lead Curator, Washington State Historical Society
4 pm Sunday Afternoon

An artist and visionary of Native ancestry born near Bellingham, James Tilton Pickett was well-known in the late 1800s for the paintings and sketches that he  did for local newspapers and patrons. Today, his artistic fame is overshadowed by his more famous father, Confederate General George Pickett.  This talk will explore some of the mythology around the Picketts in the Pacific Northwest, while focusing on what is currently known about James’ life and career.
Gwen Whiting is visiting from Tacoma where she works as Lead Curator at the Washington State Historical Society
This program sponsored by The Stanwood Area Historical Society with funding from the 2022 Snohomish County Historic Preservation Community Heritage Grant. Stanwood, WA