The first picture Susan Tate Ankeny saw of Hazel Ying Lee was of Lee “dressed all in flight garb, and her goggles, and she’s holding a cigarette, and she just looks badass.”
“We weren’t ready to tell our story”: The legacy of Bainbridge Island’s Indipino families
In the 1930s and ‘40s, 36 Indigenous women from 19 different tribes in Canada, Alaska, and Washington came to Bainbridge Island to pick berries on the island’s once prolific farms.
Bainbridge’s Filipino community works through the decades to help create, preserve community
Since the 1930s, Filipinos have lived on Bainbridge Island, helping to shape its contemporary history.
“Most of the Japanese families were not able to come back”: A Bainbridge Island farming legacy
Continuing our collection of interviews with panelists who will speak following the premiere of Strawberry Fields Forever—a new documentary about the surviving berry picker cabins on Bainbridge Island’s once-thriving farms—Carole Kubota reflected on growing up on her family’s strawberry farm after World War II.
“We took care of each other”: The tight-knit farming community of Bainbridge Island
Continuing our collection of interviews with panelists who will speak following the premiere of Strawberry Fields Forever—a new documentary about the surviving berry picker cabins on Bainbridge Island’s once-thriving berry farms—Joann Oligario reflected on growing up in an Indipino farming family deeply rooted in the island’s agricultural history.
“We lived off the land”: Indipino sisters recall Bainbridge Island’s berry farm era
Before sprawling development replaced many of Bainbridge Island’s berry fields, generations of Filipino and Indigenous families built their lives around farming, hard labor, and community.
Education, climate leadership at the heart of nonprofit’s work to center Melanesian, South Pacific women and girls
When Dr. Meré Tari Sovick was 20 years old, she became one of just three young women the Australian government chose from the entire South Pacific island region to attend university.
Bainbridge Island to mark 84th anniversary of first forced removals of Japanese Americans
When she was young, Lilly Kodama’s mother, Shigeko Kitamoto, would tell the family’s farmhand, Felix Narte, not to buy the little girl candy or ice cream on their regular trips to the grocery store.
Righting the wrongs, symposium educates on incarceration cases
“The case of my lifetime.”
Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month in the Seattle area
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, and the Seattle region is marking the occasion with an exciting array of cultural events, performances, and community celebrations that highlight the stories, art, and contributions of AAPI communities.