Please enjoy this video of our Annual Picnic, held Tuesday, July 4, 2017, in our “Birthplace of Seattle” Log House Museum Courtyard. Emcee was Peder Nelson, vice-president of our board. The event featured several elements:
— Live patriotic music from the West Seattle Community Orchestras’ Brass Sextet (0:43-3:55).
— A preview of the July 9, 2017, Courtyard Garden Tea by Marcy Johnsen, trustee and past board president (8:44-10:45).
— A welcome from Jeff McCord, new executive director (11:44-22:06).
— A welcome from Mariane Hermanson, executive director of the West Seattle Community Orchestras (23:13-25:17).
— A remembrance session for the late Merrilee Hagen, former board president who spearheaded acquisition of the museum in the mid-1990s (25:23-45:38). The session featured the recitation by Jeff McCord of a Merrilee Hagen speech from 1993 along with remembrances by Merrilee’s daughter Melissa Cooper, Marcy Johnsen, Carol Johnston, Karen Dobbs and Jordan Hecker.
— A raffle drawing for two tickets to our Champagne Gala Brunch on Nov. 4, 2017 (45:56-51:58). The winner was Anne Wise.