Saturday, May 28, 2 p.m. at the Olga Community (Energetic) Club
— from the Olga Strawberry Council–
You are invited to witness an event that will probably never happen again anywhere. On Saturday, May 28 at 2 p.m. in the Olga Community Club (the Olga Energetic Club), long-time Orcas Islanders who witnessed the short-lived but ever-so-plentiful era of the Marshall Strawberry industry on Orcas Island will be in one place telling the tales and reliving the experiences they had in the fields and at the historic strawberry barreling plant, many now refer to as the Artworks Building.
One of the many Marshall Strawberry fields on Orcas in the 1930s and early 40s – this one at Buck Bay
The event will be moderated by Clark McAbee, Director of the Orcas Island Historical Museums, and it will be incorporated into the museum’s “Hearing Orcas Voices” oral history project that preserves voices and memories of Orcas past.
Among those who will be participating are Betty Jean Rodenberger Densmore, John Willis, Janet Christiansen Booth, Irene Barfoot O’Neill, Joyce Nigretto, Darlene Kent, Betty Willis Marcum and many more. We are hoping that others with stories will also come and join in as well as those who just wish to learn more about this era and the Marshall Strawberries it produced.
Everyone is invited and the event is free. It promises to be fun, funny and definitely something you will never forget. Mark your calendar – May 28, 2 p.m. at the Olga Community (Energetic) Club.
