StoryShare on the Bainbridge Public Library (WHO-030)

From BCB… http://bestofbcb.org/who-030-storyshare-on-bainbridge-library/

This episode of BCB’s StoryShare podcast series is all about the Bainbridge Public Library.

Join BCB host Jack Armstrong as he talks with retired head librarian Cindy Harrison and long-time library volunteer Trese Williamson about the long history of libraries on Bainbridge Island.

Listen and learn about the unique public/private partnership between Bainbridge Public Library, the nonprofit organization that manages the library facility itself, and Kitsap Regional Library, which employs the staff, provides the books, and offers technical and administrative support.

Cindy and Trese also talk about how the community came together to build the original library building in 1962, the remarkable campaign to expand the library in the mid 1990s, and the origins of the beautiful Japanese Garden outside the building.

Other topics include Friends of the Library and ways in which the community can support the library financially and/or as volunteers.

Credits: BCB host: Jack Armstrong; audio tech/editor: Chris Walker; social media publisher: Diane Walker.

Abby Wyatt2024-04-26T10:37:43-07:00April 12, 2016|

Land Acknowledgment

“Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished.” – Chief Seattle 1854

We would like to begin by acknowledging that the land on which we gather is within the ancestral territory of the suq̀ʷabš “People of Clear Salt Water” (Suquamish People). Expert fisherman, canoe builders and basket weavers, the suq̀ʷabš live in harmony with the lands and waterways along Washington’s Central Salish Sea as they have for thousands of years. Here, the suq̀ʷabš live and protect the land and waters of their ancestors.