2009 – Carrington Bay

Curated and mounted by Jill Milton and Brig Weiler

This exhibit featured photographs by Claudia Raaen, and, for the first time, a digital picture frame of many early photographs of life in this bay during the 1960s and 1970s which ran continuously.

Highlights included:  Early Settlement, Back to the Land, Hippies, A Sense of Place, Logjam and Growing Up on Cortes.

Many artifacts from early settlers — and later “squatters” — were exhibited such as old travel trunks, shoe lasts, natural dyed wools, a knitted wool bathing suit, toys and “bug lights.”

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