Skye Burn
From the Orcas Island Historical Society
In an ongoing monthly series sponsored by the Orcas Island Historical Society, visiting guest Skye Burn will tell stories and answer questions about her well-known grandparents June and Ferrar Burn.
June Burn was the author of popular “Living High” an ‘unconventional biography’ that details the adventures of the young couple as they came west and homesteaded Sentinel Island, raised their two sons on Waldron, taught Eskimo children in Alaska, crossed the United States in a covered wagon, and lived as a traveling family of minstrels.
Admission to History Matinee is always by donation at the door, and takes place from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sunday afternoon November 18th, at the Orcas Senior Center.
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It was a well presented and a very interesting historical time-line. Brought back memories. As a fellow journalist I had been June’s guest and visited her Waldron Island home circa 1946-50.