On Fishers Pond
On Fishers Pond

Author: Laurie Bevan Stewart

Publisher:

Published: 2017-07-14

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9780989429191

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This is a beautifully written tribute to an incredibly special and generous man. - Emma Amiad Founding president, Vashon Maury Island Audubon Society Fisher Pond remains one of the most generous and precious of gifts to our community. The Vashon Land Trust is honored to steward it. Laurie Stewart's book is a wonderful reminder of Bill's philosophy--that Nature knows what she's doing. - Tom Dean Executive Director, Vashon-Maury Land Trust Laurie Stewart has woven a warm, delightful, surprising portrait of Bill Fisher from shared memories of friends and neighbors, revealing a private person with a great capacity for observing, loving, and stewarding his pond and its surrounds. Bill gave the community his beautiful pond. Laurie's gentle descriptions and exquisitely remembered moments offer us a new gift: glimpses of the unusual man himself and his particular stewardship ethic. - Rayna Holtz Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum, co-curator Vashon Island's Native People: Navigating Seas of Change King County Library System, librarian, ret.

Vashon-Maury Island
Vashon-Maury Island

Author: Bruce Haulman

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738574998

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Vashon-Maury Island lies between Seattle and Tacoma and is connected to the mainland by the Washington State Ferries. The bridge proposed in the 1950s and 1960s did not materialize, which helped retain the island's isolation and rural lifestyle. Like other Puget Sound islands, its original economy was based on logging, fishing, brick-making, and agriculture, especially its strawberries. Island industries included the largest dry dock on the West Coast, shipbuilding, and ski manufacturing. Distinct from the other islands, Vashon-Maury is the only one whose major town is not on the water. Originally inhabited for thousands of years by the S'Homamish people, the island's first white settler arrived in 1865. Today, 145 years later, the population is more than 11,000.

The White Swan Express
The White Swan Express

Author: Jean Davies Okimoto

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 0618164537

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Across North America, people in four different homes prepare for a special trip to China, while four baby girls in China await their new adoptive parents, including a lesbian couple.