1969 ❖ SEED COLLECTING EXPEDITION ❖

L-R: Margaret "Babs" Cameron,
Malcolm "Coonie" Cameron,
Gwendolyn Yansen.
Location depicted: Jones Island,
 San Juan Archipelago, WA.
They were all founders of the Shaw Island
Library & Historical Society
out collecting wildflower seeds to bring home for a
woodland garden developing around the new facility.
Thanks to Louellen McCoy of Orcas Island,
a friend of Shaw Island,
for repair of this damaged photo.

The seed collectors are back to home base
at the Shaw Island Library and
 Historical Museum, under construction.
Back-stamped "Sept. 1969."
Top photo; Eunice Biendl Copper in a back brace;
below photo; Babs & Coonie Cameron
and others, including Tom Oliver.
Mr. Errett M. Graham wrote in his daily diary
on 4 October 1969,
"Mrs. Yansen and Mrs. Copper were planting
bulbs at the Historical Society lot."

      The logs from the former Bert Tift homestead were purchased and donated to the new society by summer resident, Mrs. Zora Gross.
      The reefnet boat was adopted as the logo at the time the original vessel was donated by Lloyd Lillie. He had towed it home from Lummi Island, in Whatcom County, and fished his gears at Reefnet Bay for many years. Ray "Doc" Harford built the bookshelves; the antique split cedar rails were made by settlers of the 1870s and 1880s; with many hands, it was a member-supported effort, under their own board of trustees. The grand opening was held on 22 August 1970 to fulfill the dream of a native islander, Mabel Fowler Crawford (1899-1964.)