Special Events - 2009

Story Telling by Lou LaBombard

Friday, May 15th, 6:00 pm at the Fort Ebey State Park amphitheater, the evening before the Penn Cove Water Festival.

Lou LaBombard (see bio) will tell stories from various Native American oral traditions including the Northwest Coastal groups. Admission is Free.

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Rural Recollections
Rural Recollections of 1930s Water Festival in Coupeville on May 15, at the Coupeville Recreation Hall from 6 to 8 pm with a dessert potluck. As a special tribute to the Penn Cove Water Festival, representatives from the Swinomish and Lummi Tribes will be on hand to share their stories. A film of Water Festivals from the 1930's will be shown, followed by a Rural Recollections program, hosted by Island County Historical Society. Speakers include tribal elders sharing their stories of the early days of the festivals, family members whose descendants crafted some of the early canoes, and some Coupeville residents, who with will also share their early festival memories.

The Rural Recollections format provides a casual atmosphere for all in attendance to share fun historical stories, and will be recorded by the Island County Historical Society to add to their oral history library. Free admission.
For more information: ed-ichs@whidbey.net
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Penn Cove Native History Boat Tour
Sunday, May 17th, 10:00 am on board the Deception Pass Tour catamaran at the Coupeville Dock

Lou LaBombard will lead a tour of Penn Cove as he talks about the Native Americans who lived here and on the various adaptations to Whidbey Island (food, shelter, canoes, hunting, fishing, gathering, making of tools, protection from the raids of the Haida and others) and the Puget area tribal groups in pre-contact times. He will be pointing out burial sites and living sites in the cove and also describing some of the others on the Island. Lou might even be persuaded to tell a couple of local stories told to him by Charlie Sneatlum - descendent of the last of the Potlatch chiefs of the Island - Charlie Snakelum. Tickets are $35 and are limited to 35 people. They can be obtained by emailing a request to consider@whidbey.net, and at Miriam's Espresso, 200 S. Main, and the Harbor Store, 26 NW Front St. in Coupeville.

For accommodations, dining and visitor information, go to:

www.WhidbeyCamanoIslands.com
or
www.centralwhidbeychamber.com.