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Small
Island — Big History
Friday Harbor,
WA
Celebrates Preservation Month
Friday Harbor,
Washington – Next month
Friday
Harbor, the National Trust for Historic
Preservation, and individuals and organizations nation-wide will celebrate
National Preservation Month—May 2008. Last February, the Trust designated
Friday Harbor
as one of its Dozen Distinctive Destinations for 2008.
In
Friday
Harbor and elsewhere on
San Juan Island during
Preservation Month, we open doors, view the streetscape and shoreline, and
otherwise bring interesting, hard-scrabble historic characters and events to
life. Partnering in this year’s activities are the Town of Friday Harbor,
San Juan Historical
Museum, San Juan
Island National
Historical
Park, Hacket Larson Post 163 of the
American Legion, and the maritime research vessel, the Pacific Catalyst II. For
such a small island, a whole lot of history happened here! (Event descriptions
follow)
EVENTS
Historic District Walking Tours:
Every Saturday in May, 9:00am-10:00am, the Town of Friday Harbor’s Historic
Preservation Review Board is giving free, guided walking tours of the downtown
historic district. Rain or shine. Space is limited and reservations are
required. To register and receive more information, go to
www.historicfridayharbor.org or call 360.378.2810 during regular business
hours.
Mothers’ Day Tea
at the James King
House Museum:
Saturday, May 3rd,
2-4pm the good china comes out, cookies
are baked and tea served by Museum volunteers dressed in period clothing at the
San Juan Historical
Museum’s James King House. The Museum is
located in Friday Harbor
at 405 Price Street. For more
information go to
www.sjmuseum.org or call 360.378.3949.
Heritage Vessel
Open House:
Sunday, May 4th, 2:00pm – 4:00pm.
Come aboard the historic Pacific Catalyst, a restored 1932 wooden vessel. Her
maiden voyage was up the Inside Passage
and across the Gulf of Alaska, beginning her oceanographic
research for the University of
Washington’s, Friday Harbor Labs, and the marine
sciences community. The Catalyst has been thoroughly and richly restored, and
now takes visitors on marine adventures in the Salish
Sea and north into
Alaska
and Canada.
Friday
Harbor is her home base, and on this day
you will find her moored in the Friday Harbor Marina. For more information call
360.378.7123 or visit
www.pacificcatalyst.com/index.htm.
Rural Architecture
in Friday Harbor:
On
Wednesday, May 14, 7:00pm-9:00pm, the
Town of Friday Harbor and the San Juan
Historical
Museum present a history talk by local
historian and preservation architect, Boyd Pratt, entitled Paying Attention
to the Ordinary: Friday
Harbor’s Rural Architecture.
This event takes place in the research center of the San
Juan
Historical Museum,
405 Price Street. For more
information go to
www.historicfridayharbor.org, call or email to 360.378.2810 or
sstrehlou@fridayharbor.org.
Memorial Day
Parade and Commemoration:
Monday, May 26, 10am. For over
80 years, Hacket Larson Post 163 of the American Legion and town citizens have
commemorated those who have died in war for the nation, with a parade and
waterfront ceremony at the town’s Memorial Park. This annual event hasn’t
changed much over time. The town and island visitors turn out to watch as
Veterans of World War II, the Korean and Viet Nam
wars, and others more recently returned from the Middle East;
Pig War re-enactors from the San Juan
Island National
Historical Park’s
Company D; and local Boy Scouts and school children—all participate to create a
touching and authentic memorial event. The parade takes places along the first
two blocks of Spring Street, but the best viewing locations are on the
waterfront at Memorial Park, the first monument erected in
Washington
to honor those who died in WWI. For more information about this event call
360.378.5705 or visit
www.post163.org.
Lecture:
Pre-History of San Juan
Island:
Saturday, May 31st, 10:00am. University
of Washington archaeologist, Dr. Julie
Stein, traces ancient habitation of San Juan
Island in this guided walk on the
American Camp prairie, San Juan
Island
National Historical
Park. For information call 360.378.2240, or visit
www.nps.gov/sajh.
Pig War Story
Tour:
Saturday, May 31, 11:30am, American
Camp, San Juan Island
National Historical Park. Rangers and volunteers describe events leading up to
and including the Pig War and the peaceful joint occupation of
San Juan Island by
British and American troops. For information call 360.378.2240, or visit
www.nps.gov/sajh.
Life during the
Joint Occupation of San Juan
Island: Saturday, May 31,
12:30pm – 3:30pm, English Camp, San Juan
Island National Historical Park. Rangers
and volunteers recreate military and civilian life during the island's early
pioneer period. Activities include blacksmithing, coopering, weaving, needlework
and exhibitions of military equipment and skills. For more information call
360.378.2240 or go to
www.nps.gov/sajh.
ABOUT
FRIDAY
HARBOR
Though only one square mile in size, Friday
Harbor
boasts nearly 150 historic buildings reflecting the community’s civic,
commercial and residential history. Friday
Harbor is one of
Washington’s few seaport villages to survive the
turn-of-the-century fires that engulfed early Seattle
and other cities. Its authentic downtown streetscape and postage-size Memorial
Park are the gateway to discovering the rich history, rural character and
pristine marine environment of the San Juan
archipelago.
In
and around Friday
Harbor, there are five national and
state historic register sites, including: the San Juan County Courthouse, Odd
Fellows Hall (now the Whale
Museum), Lime Kiln Light Station,
Roche Harbor
and the San Juan Island
National Historical
Park. Here visitors experience the history of the
Territorial Northwest “up close and personal,” through historic buildings,
sites, exhibits, tours and re-enactments. There is no better place to celebrate
National Preservation Month and the return of spring than the San Juans.
OTHER DOZEN
DISTINCTIVE DESTINATION* TOWNS AND CITIES
Other towns and cities designated as Distinctive Destinations by the National
Trust in 2008 include Aiken, S.C.; Apalachicola, Fl.; Columbus, MI.; Crested
Butte, CO.; Fort Davis, TX; Portland, Or.; Portsmouth, N.H.; Red Wing, MN.; Ste.
Genevieve, MO.; San Juan Bautista, CA.; and Wilmington, N.C.
For
more information about historic Friday
Harbor, National Preservation Month and activities in
and around Friday
Harbor, visit
www.historicfridayharbor.org.
Sandy Strehlou
Historic Preservation
Coordinator
Town of Friday Harbor
Tel. 360.378.2810
Fax 360.378.8723
PO Box 219
Friday Harbor, WA
98250
sstrehlou@fridayharbor.org
Friday Harbor, WA was named a 2008 Dozen Distinctive Destination by the National
Trust for Historic Preservation
Announcing our new website:
www.historicfridayharbor.org
04/18/2008
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