Friday, February 14, 2014
Silverdale
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Continued from page 4 girls basketball team, the 1924 high school boys’ basketball team, a circa 1940s bowling team sponsored by lumber company Dahl & Petersen, a circa 1950 salmon derby, and racing at the Silverdale Speedway. Historic events are depicted. An August 1969 image shows the Port of Silverdale’s dock being burned to make way for a new boat launch and park. Port officials thought the burn would take one day; it took two weeks. Colorful characters are featured on nearly every page. You’ll meet Swedish-born fisherman Mule Anderson and his family, with Yonkers the cat. And Charles Greaves, a veterinarian who could cure your horse’s colic and set your broken arm. And Peter Emel, who drove a Ford camper truck to and from California in 1918 on whatever roads were available. And Jesse “Red” Jones, who was born on the USS Nipsic and became a shipyard machinist as well as a florist shop owner. And Louis Morey, who founded the local power company in 1922 with $50 he borrowed and in seven years hand-dug power pole holes for 70 miles of power line. And Bob Gossett, racing his 1933 Pontiac which he called the “Poor Man’s Bonneville.” (In this writer’s view, one of the coolest character portraits is of Capt. Martin Madison, pipe in mouth, at the wheel of his Mosquito Fleet ferry. Check it out on page 63). Here’s a colorful factoid: During the height of the ag era, record-setting shipments of poultry and eggs caused the local newspaper editor to report: “From Silverdale, the cackle of hens was heard round the world.” Asked for her favorite fact in the book, Carolyn Neal, one of the book’s writers, said she likes to think that Steve Wilson really did bury a teapot of gold at what is now Erland’s Point. She hopes the book helps people understand that Silverdale is more than just a retail center; it’s a community. “I was thrilled with the sense of place,” she said of the experience of working on the book. “Silverdale could be just considered a retail center on the
ing their stories.” She and others went to the annual Old Timers Picnic and collected photos and oral histories. The project “was such a springboard for people’s memories. I abso-
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lutely loved that part of it,” she said. “Silverdale” was released Feb. 3. It sells for $21.99; royalties will go to the Kitsap County Historical Society.
The historical society was founded in 1948. Its mission is to collect, preserve and exhibit the diverse culture, heritage, and history of Kitsap County.
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CONGRATULATIONS JERI ROMERO Top: Silverdale High School’s 1925 basketball team. Above: Mule Anderson and his family, with Yonkers the cat. Top right: Bob Gossett races “The Poor Man’s Bonneville” at Silverdale Speedway. Courtesy / From the book highway, but there’s still a sense of a real town and a real community.” Neal said the book was an “extremely collaborative effort, a great community effort.” And it was fun. “The people I worked with made me laugh,” she said. Nina Hallett, the editor, said many of the people on the “Silverdale” project worked together on the
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update of “Kitsap County: A History,” which took five years. “We kind of got used to things,” Hallett said. “We’ve all worked together and we know each other fairly well. And we’re not shy.” Claudia Hunt, one of the book’s writers, said her favorite part of the project was “talking to all the old timers and hear-
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