SeaDoc and Orkila Host Family Night

— from Joe Thoron —

Tuesday, Dec. 10, 7 p.m., Larry Norman Lodge, Camp Orkila:

Free dinner provided by Camp Orkila from 5:30-6:30 p.m.

“Exploring Coast Salish Prehistory,” by Julie B. Stein

The SeaDoc Society & YMCA Camp Orkila Present Family Night with dinner and a crafts table for the kids during the lecture, “Exploring Coast Salish Prehistory: the Stories Archaeology Tells”  by Julie Stein, Burke Museum.

This is our annual Family Night event. Kids crafts are available during the talk.

Have you ever wondered how people lived in the San Juan Islands thousands of years ago? What resources did they depend upon? Did they always eat salmon? What about elk? Where did they live?

Dr. Julie Stein, author of “Exploring Coast Salish Prehistory,” will share the stories that archaeology tells about life in the San Juan Islands before recorded history. A professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington and the director of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Dr. Stein has made her career studying adaptations of coastal prehistoric peoples, particularly in the Northwest Coast.

Dr. Stein has identified important cultural sites in the San Juan Islands, has made discoveries about summer and winter village sites, and has studied tools found at the sites to deduce what early residents ate and how they engaged in art and fishing. Come learn about the people who first inhabited our region. The lecture is free to the public.

The Lecture Series is presented by program partners The SeaDoc Society and YMCA Camp Orkila. It has been made possible through generous sponsorship by Tom Averna (Deer Harbor Charters), Barbara Brown, Audrey and Dean Stupke and West Sound Marina as well as co-sponsorship by Barbara Bentley and Glenn Prestwich and Bill Patterson (Chimayo/Sazio). For more information visit https://www.seadocsociety.org.