Bainbridge Remembers: 'Vanishing Bainbridge' Oral History

Bainbridge Remembers: Oral History at the Senior Center Series

Photographer’s Story: Joel Sackett 

Bainbridge Island artist, photographer and Island Treasure, Joel Sackett brings years of Island memories to life through images in the newest Historical Museum exhibit entitled Vanishing Bainbridge. Join us as Joel shares Island history, his stories, and highlights things forgotten, or little seen as well as things familiar.  Bainbridge Island Senior Community Center hosts in partnership with Bainbridge Island Historical Museum, Bainbridge Public Library and Arts & Humanities Bainbridge.

Storyteller: Joel Sackett

This is an online Google Meet hosted by the Bainbridge Island Senior/Community Center

BI Historical Museum

New Exhibit: Vanishing Bainbridge

VIEW JOEL SACKETT’S VIDEO HERE

January 22 – September 12

“For the past thirty years, since calling Bainbridge Island my new home, I’ve been trying to grow roots. Towards this, I’ve been photographing and collecting words from various perspectives of Island life, always culminating in presentations like this one.  This latest body of work explores the history of Bainbridge Island through the built environment. It is highly personal and selective. The exhibit is composed mostly of older homes that are still in use, repurposed, or in disrepair. All of them come with stories of Island lives and history.  These minor histories are often forgotten. Some might have been passed down to relatives or heard by neighbors, but they often change by omissions, embellishments, and the vagaries of memory. There are many blank spaces to fill in, an invitation to use one’s imagination and curiosity to see Bainbridge Island through the lens of past lives and the built environment they inhabited,”  Joel Sackett.