ISBN: 0989429199 9780989429191

Category: History / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)

Page count: 54

<p>This is a beautifully written tribute to an incredibly special and generous man.<br> - Emma Amiad<br> Founding president, <br> Vashon Maury Island Audubon Society</p><p>Fisher Pond remains one of the most generous and precious of gifts to our community. The Vashon Land Trust is honored to steward it. Laurie Stewart's book is a wonderful reminder of Bill's philosophy--that Nature knows what she's doing.<br> - Tom Dean<br> Executive Director, Vashon-Maury Land Trust</p><p>Laurie Stewart has woven a warm, delightful, surprising portrait of Bill Fisher from shared memories of friends and neighbors, revealing a private person with a great capacity for observing, loving, and stewarding his pond and its surrounds. Bill gave the community his beautiful pond. Laurie's gentle descriptions and exquisitely remembered moments offer us a new gift: glimpses of the unusual man himself and his particular stewardship ethic.<br> - Rayna Holtz<br> Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum, co-curator <br> Vashon Island's Native People: Navigating Seas of Change<br> King County Library System, librarian, ret.</p>