Sunday, February 26, 2:30 p.m., Orcas Senior Center Lundeen Room
Long-time Orcas resident Carol Clark.
Don’t miss the third monthly History Matinee gathering featuring long-time iconic Orcas Island resident Carol Clark. It takes place in the afternoon at 2:30pm in the Lundeen Room at the Orcas Senior Center on this coming Sunday February 26. The storytelling and discussion will be videotaped and entered into the OIHM collection archives.
Finger food and refreshments will be provided and donations of any amount will be gladly accepted at the door. Free three-month passes to the Orcas Museum will be handed out to those who are not yet members.
About Carol Clark:
Carolyn Mount Clark grew up near Portland, Oregon, was an architectural major at Scripps College, was in the US Army, is a WW2 veteran, farmed beef cattle on Orcas since 1945, and she bred and showed Arabian horses (had Canadian National Champion Stallion). Carol took trips to Sweden & Finland in 1938, later on to the South Pacific from Bora Bora and Australia, and later trips to Antarctica, India, Galapagos, Tibet, China, the Middle East, and sailed around the world in 11 1/2 months).
Along with the farming life Clarks used their horses for working their cattle, and also recreational packing trips in the Cascade Mountains. She rode through her 80s and continues on her motorcycle. Ed Lavender and she built her present house, after Walter Clark passed away in 1979. She found feeding her cattle and horses in fields was easier by using her motorcycle with a bale of hay on the back.
Please call the Orcas Museum office at 376-4849 for more information.
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My husband sailed around the world with Carol.
Although, we live in Pennsylvania and don’t often get a chance to see or talk to her, I always enjoy her company and listening to her life stories.
She is an AMAZING lady!!
I was one of the lucky shipmates to sail around the world with Carol. It developed into a 35+ year friendship.