Oral Histories

A broad cross section of local history has been recorded by a diverse group of local residents. The collection will be expanding in the coming year as grant funding will enable the museum to preserve even more stories for future generations.

May Agnes Bergman Boyce

Robert Follett Buck

Sam Buck II

Jim Cahail

Ethel L. Dale

Georgia Wanda Murray Davis

Etta Elizabeth Lightheart Egeland

Glen Fleming

Cora Elsie Elwell Moe Fowler – information about Shaw Island

Elmon Adams Geneste, Jr. -  information about the history of transportation on San Juan Island

Marie Larsen Johnson Greenfield

Martha Holden Nash Gubelman

Lynette King Guard

Sally Dodd Hall – information about Yellow Island

Carla Jean Higginson – information about ancestors Christopher Rosler and wife Anna Pike Rosler who was Haida, Native American.

Garreth Jeffers – information about the Friday Harbor Fish Cannery

Nourdine H. Jensen – information about boat building on San Juan Island

Carlton Wright King – information about the history of King’s Market

Louise Karen Lovaas King

Georgia May Smith Krumdiack

Roger Loring – information about the Cemetary

Margaret Mc Rae

Laura Roland

Mildred King Sandwith

Virginia Gertrude Reed Sandwith

Ray Sheffer – information about law enforcement on San Juan Island

Helga Lindquist Settles – information about living at the Lime Kiln Lighthouse

Al Sundstrom

Claudine Helen Sundstrom

Frederick Daniel Sundstrom – information about the history of agriculture on San Juan Island

Ruth Guard Sundstrom

Edward Norman Tuck – information about the Roche Harbor lime kilns

Edna Beryl Boyce Wade – information about the cemetaries

Robert William Workman – information about the Roche Harbor lime quarries

William Arthur Wotton

Kendo Yasuda – information about the history of the Japanese on San Juan Island