(Photo courtesy of DeMille Archives)

Please join us on Saturday, October 12th when Lance Rhoades of the

Seattle Film Institute shares Western movie clips to explore the role cinema has
played in creating and perpetuating perceptions of the American Indian.
Speaking courtesy of Humanities Washington, Lance feels we can use
these flms to help us gauge if and how perceptions have changed over time. We
can perhaps learn where stereotypes emerge and ask what purpose they serve
in the stories movies tell. We can also better understand the motivations behind
the efforts of American Indians to begin telling different stories through flm.
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The Redmond RecoRdeR
REDMOND HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
OCTOBER 2013 VOL. 15 NO. 8
Every town has a history. Discover ours.
UpcOmingSatUrday Speaker SerieS
Saturday, October 12, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon
Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center, 16600 NE 80th Street
american indianS in cinema
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The historic walking tour
season is over for this year, but
much of the history and humor
imparted by guide Tom Hitzroth is
available as a series of video clips
about signifcant sites around town.
Thanks to the City of
Redmond and Kim Dietz, its
historic preservation offcer, 13
short videos take you through a
general history and then details
about places such as: Bill Browns
Saloon, Anderson Park, Dudley
Carters Haida House, the Justice
White House, Odd Fellows Hall,
and the pioneer cemetery.
Check them out online:
redmond.gov/Government/
HistoricPreservation/CityLandmarks
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in OUr cOllectiOn
The images above are among the 6,000 (and counting) stored in our
online database thanks to countless hours of organizing and logging led
by Society Collections VP John Phillips and Offce Manager Monica Park.
Were still busy removing bugs from the database but the plan is to frst
provide free online access to City of Redmond staff later this year and
then to the public early in 2014. Keyword searching will make it easy to
fnd images and documents related to, say, Derby Days.
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John Phillips and Monica Park at work in the offce on the collections database. (Photo by Miguel Llanos.)
Thanks go out to the volunteers who have been cataloging these artifacts:
Valerie Vega, Russ Deex, Lydia Kim, Eugene Moon, and Jacob Bentzen.
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margaret everS WieSe
redmOnd hiStOrical SOciety cO-FOUnder
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Dedication, kindness and a great sense
of humorthose are some of the traits that
Margaret Evers Wiese will be remembered
for, especially when the Society refects
back on the contributions made by Mew
since co-founding the group in 1999.
Mew passed away recently on
September 18th after a long illness, but like
fellow co-founder Nao Hardy she left behind
a treasure trove of historical research that
will beneft generations to come.
Mews specialty was genealogical research and she dug into
newspaper archives to scan nearly 900 Redmond obituaries as well as
print ads for Redmond businesses and events.
Margaret was the back bone of our genealogical research, said
Society President Chris Himes, recalling too the time Mew helped
research a head marker found in Chris backyard. Margaret immediately
named it My Backyard Lodger. and came up with all the information
the gentleman is buried in Sultan and not in my backyard! Thanks to you
Margaret for a dedicated and well lived life.
Mew plays the accordion during holiday carols with
neighbors and her grandma Kate Evers in the 1950s.
Born in Redmond in1942, Mews Redmond roots were deep: Her
mom and dad met at a Redmond Gun Club dance. And Robert Cotterill,
the beloved school custodian who instilled many with a love for music,
was her grandfather.
Sarah Corlett, a close friend who
shared a bond with Mew while both were
caregivers to their parents, captured her
qualities beautifully:
By the end of hour-long conversations
we were laughing and feeling much less
isolated and found a greater perspective.
Margarets sense of humor was intelligent,
heartfelt, wry, and gave me a real belly
laugh when I needed it most.
in memOriam:
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eric Standley anderSOn
WOOdcarver craFtSman
The leaky, moss-covered roof on Haida House, the centerpiece of Dudley Carter
Park, has been replaced with cedar planks similar to the originals thanks to a
$9,000 grant by 4Culture and City of Redmond funding. David Rogers of Logs &
Timbers LLC, the same company that restored the Anderson Park picnic shelter,
is seen at right splitting cedar.
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Rooted in Redmond is a great
way to describe Eric Stanley Anderson,
a longtimer who passed away this
summer on August 24th.
Born in Redmond in 1925, his parents
were Gretchen and Andy Anderson
after whom Anderson Park was named.
Eric was one of our lifetime members,
investing in our heritage mission. He also
donated an axe that the famed Redmond
woodcarver Dudley Carter had given him.
Erics primary passion, his family noted in a tribute, was
woodcarving. He studied with Dudley Carter and spent the last thirty
years of his life in his workshop creating totem poles, beautiful and
powerful tribal masks, and thousands of hand-painted, whittled fgurines.
Family and close friends held a memorial service in Erics favorite
cathedral of trees next to the log home that he and his partner Alice
Hamilton built together. Eric will be dearly missed, his family wrote, for
his big heart, his passionate approach to life, and his generosity of spirit.
in memOriam:
haida hOUSe rOOF reStOred
(Photos courtesy City of Redmond.)
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SatUrday Speaker SerieS
FirSt prOgram SUcceSS

With a huge turnout
(approximately 125 people),
our new Saturday Speaker
Series programs got off to a
great start on September 14th.
Thank you one and all
for a bang up job, Society
President Chris Himes said
in an email to the board,
speaker Tom Hitzroth and
offce manager Monica Park.
And guess what? she added.
We get to do it again next
month ... How special is that?
A special shoutout goes
to board member Sherry Stilin for organizing and marketing the series.
Additional thanks to Mayor John Marchione for introducing the
series, City Councilman Hank Myers for attending and these city staffers
for their help: Marty Boggs, Terry Burke, Susan Cooper, Chip Cornwell,
Kim Dietz, and Jeri Rowe-Curtis.
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(Event photography courtesy of HeadSpinnerPhotography.com.)
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UpcOming prOgramS
SatUrday Speaker SerieS
10:30 a.m. 2nd SatUrday OF the mOnth (except december)
$5 Suggested Donation for Non-Members
THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT
IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
November 9th: Larry Kreisman of Historic Seattle shares how
two worlds fairs and our regions unique qualities greatly infuenced
architecture and design arts in the early 1900s.
TREE ARMY: THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS 1933-1941
January 11th: Janet Oakley, an author and historian, explains the
CCCs lasting impact both on our state and on the young men desperate
for jobs. (Speaking courtesy of Humanities Washington)
HIGH TIMES: AIR DEFENSE,
AIRPORTS, AND WISHFUL THINKING
February 8th: Sherry Grindeland, a journalist and Eastside Heritage
Center member, shares the Eastsides role in aviation, WWII and Cold
War air defense, and D.B. Cooper.
THE SILER LOGGING COMPANY
& RAILROAD: 1920s LOGGING
March 8th: Eric Erickson, an author and past president of Issaquah
History Museums, recounts the vast operation east of Redmond and the
25-mile railroad that carried the logs north.
THE SAMMAMISH SLOUGH RACE: 1933-1976
April 12th: Steve Greaves of the Seattle Outboard Association hosts
former racers recollecting the challenges of navigating the narrow and
winding slough.
FROM CHICKENS TO SOFTWARE:
THE LAND BEFORE MICROSOFT
May 10th: Dante and Panflo Morelli share their story of Italian
immigrants who built one of the areas largest chicken farms on land that
today is part of the Microsoft campus.
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WelcOme, and thankS,
tO OUr neW liFetimerS
Allen Lang also
became a lifetimer
over the summer,
deciding to help support
preserving the history of
the community he grew
up in.
His roots go way
back: his grandparents,
the Soderstroms, lived
in Happy Valley and
the Langs lived in the
Kirkland/Bellevue area. A retired engineering consultant, Allen is
an avid sportsman and, back in the 1950s-60s, you might have met
him on the Sammamish River fshing for steelhead or hunting in the
woods for deer and elk.
Although he has yet to attend one of our programs (because he
lives in the Teanaway Valley) you could say, We fnally hooked him!
Our newest
lifetimers include a
couple who have been
helping the Society for
most of its 14 years:
Dale and JoAnn Potter.
Dales recent projects
include buffng dozens
of spikes from the
railway line that used to
run through town.
Those spikes were then turned into framed collectors items
sold to honor Redmonds Centennial. JoAnns contributions include
organizing our early membership effortsand creating our frst
name tags! We arrived in 1970, Dale noted. In those forty plus
years we became part of Redmonds growing history and we want it
preserved for future generations to enjoy.
Membership
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OUR TOWN
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OUr rhS liFetime memberS
Eric Anderson
John Anderson
Barbara Neal Beeson
Brad Best
Marjorie Stensland
Costello
John Couch
Liz Carlson Coward
Tony Emmanuel
Frank Garbarino
Edward L. Hagen
Lucille B. Hansen-
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Naomi Hardy
Chris Himes
Rosemarie Ives
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Roy Lampaert
Allen Lang
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Clare Amo Marr
Daryl Martin
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John Phillips
Roxie Phillips
Dale Potter
Jo Ann Potter
Charles Reed
Frances Spray Reed
Vivian Robinson
Margy Rockenbeck
William Rockenbeck
Beryl Standley
John Stilin
Sherry Stilin
Fred Springsteel
Fred Stray
Doris Bauer Schaible
Herb Swanson
Doris Townsend
Arlyn Vallene
Patti Simpson Ward
Don Watts
Rose Weiss
Joanne Westlund
Margaret Evers Wiese
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hUge hiStOrical thank yOUS tO:
Fernando Ramos and Tom Hansen for setting upand then taking
down100-plus chairs as well as numerous tables at our September
program.
Patsy Rosenbach and Mary Hanson for being our greeters at the
September program.
Saturday Market volunteers: Marge Hansen, Angie Lang, Judy
Lang, Cheryl and Gene Magnuson, JoAnn Potter, Fernando
Ramos, Beryl Standley, Sherry Stilin, Joe Townsend, Don Watts
and Mike Watts.
Angie Lang, Judy Lang and Cheryl and Gene Magnuson for
staffng a Society booth at the annual Golden Grads reunion.
Tom Hitzroth and Kim Dietz for organizing the annual walking tours,
including the special storytelling and walking tour event last month.
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