TRACYTON HISTORY Events in the History of Tracyton by E.E. Riddell - 1951 Tracyton History and a Night to Reminisce — June 2, 1971 In 1841, while exploring all bays and inlets of Puget Sound, the Wilkes expedition sailed up the narrows which now bears the name of Port Washington Narrows, and thence into a beautiful bay which they proceeded to name Dyes Inlet in honor of John W.W. Dyes, assistant taxidermist of the Vincennes of the Wilkes squadron. The southem part of the bay they took to resemble the shape of an ostrich and named it Ostrich Bay which it stil retains. At that time Dyes Inlet was surrounded by Indians, the sole inhabitants of this part of the country. This peaceful serenity of the Indians continued for ten years longer until other white men located upon adjacent land and took up homesteads. In 1852 Daniel J. Sackman arrived upon the shores of Alki Point with $2.50 in his Pocket and proceeded to look around for a suitable place to locate. After staying at Alki for some time he became associated with Theo Williams and Capt Howard who were erecting a saw mill at what is now Enatai, then called Port Orchard, where he helped build the mill and worked for a number of years, taking up various sections of timber land all over the county. In 1853 he located on the waterfront where I.S. Sackman and Wiliam E. Warren now live (Silver Beach), and made that his home for several years. He raised a family of whom J. W. Sackman and David H. Sackman are now deceased and Isaac S. Sackman still living. Issac S. Sackman was born at the foot of what is now Tracy Avenue in 1860. Logging was the only industry at that time, and Daniel J. Sackman became more and more interested in logging and accumulated a vast amount of timber and all the necessary paraphernalia for getting it to the mills, including a steam boat. He became weaithy as wealth was known in those days. Daniel Sackman knew the value of education, so hired a private teacher for his ‘own children and any others who wish to attend school. Hence the first school to be established at Tracyton was in a small house just below where the cemetery is now situated. Mr. Chas. Hopkins was the first school teacher in what became School District No. 4. School was continued there for a number of years. Among the 16 pupils who attended school in 1888: Emma Sackman, Ed Sackman, and Joe Sackman Jr. At that time S. J. Dickie was the teacher. Other settlers began to arrive and settled on various places about Dyes Inlet, among whom were Louis Parquette who came from Canada and changed hisname to Gardiner. Rumor has it that he lived with three Indian women at various times, and when one died he took her body out in the woods and placed it in a hole caused by a large tree having been blown down. He cut the tree in two near the uplifted roots which then fell back thus covering up the dead body. Others who came here at that time were James A. Lake, John P. Fryberg, Ned Tyne, Theo Williams, A.C. Fowler, Wm Abrahamson, John Garrison, a Negro who married a full blooded Indian woman. Mrs. Jane Garrison lived to be 108 years old and was well liked and respected by everyone. ‘Still others who came were Freman W. Bass, Emil Urbanczyk (Emil Urban), Jesse E. Baker, David O. Bechtol, a school teacher, Wm O’Noil, Geo Moser Joseph Pitt and H. P. Hansen. In 1883 J. D. Morrehead and family arrived on the shores of what is now Tracyton and took up a homestead about two miles out in the wilderness, and ‘were soon followed by Silas Peckinpaugh, D. M. Steele, John Gordon, H. M. Williams, Geo Clay, Wm Gibson and others. Mrs. Peckinpaugh brought the first team of horses and wagon to this peninsula in 1887. As there was no dock the horses were pushed overboard off the steamer and swam to shore. Not having any road to his place he had to leave the wagon at a neighbors and later everyone got together and cut a road, which was one of the first roads in this part of the county. The first road to be known as a county road was one north from Tracyton past Schold’s place at Silverdale, and thence to Pearson. Many of the old timers worked out their road tax on this road. The Government kept open a trail near the beach from Manette to Seabeck, which was part of the original government trail from Olympia. ‘On Dec 16, 1865 John P. Fryberg purchased 36.75 acres from the government which now comprises the town of Tracyton. Mr. Fryberg had a Chinaman, Ah Moy, working for him as cook and it was said that he had been unable to pay the Chinaman for a long time and owed him $250. Evidently not valuing the town site of Tracyton very highly, he deeded the property of Ah Moy in 1880. The Chinaman sold the property to John B. Wood in 1883 for $160 and in 1889 John Wood sold to Chas H. Kittinger who formed a land company with Geo B. Kittinger, James Wood and Charles B. Nichols. They incorporated for $500,000 and platted the town of Tracyton. Quite a large sawmill was built on the waterfront. Mr. August Peterson, father of the late Nels Peterson of Manette, was the millwright who built the mill. It was leased to W. H. Taft who operated the same for about two years when the mill was closed and dismantled. The town was a very thriving community at that time being owned and run by the mill company. It consisted of a hotel which stood on the bank above the mili witha miill office just below it, which is now the residence of E. E. Riddell; a store saloon, and several nice houses where the company officials lived. The first public schoo! to be established on this peninsula was at what is now Manette, on the Fellows’ property near the end of the present bridge. ‘Children came by canoe or walked the beach when the tide was out from all around Dyes Inlet and other bays. The Gardiners, Williams, Garrisons, Abrahamson’s and Sackmans came from what is now Tracyton. Moses Seattle, a great grandchild of Chief Seattle and Lillian Sparks and her brother went by canoe from Chico, and at one time the canoe upset throwing the three into the water. Moses Seattle was a dwarf about 3-1/2 feet high, was an excellent swimmer and managed to save the life of Lillian Sparks. The first post office was established in 1884 and called Dyes, but about two months later the name was changed to Sackman with Dora Abrahamson as postmaster. It was located in an old log dwelling of her father's and situated about where Milton Hammargren now lives. The mail was obtained by rowing a boat to Port Blakely once a week. Later it was carried by the steamer Helen, Capt Ellis, which made regular trips two times a week. There being no docks the little steamer was met all along the way by row boats. This steamer was followed later by the steamers Renton, Grace, Robinson, Mountaineer, Mary F. Perley, Garden City, Pilgram and various up to the time when the Str. F. G. Reeve discontinued the run altogether. In the early days it was a common occurrence to row to Seattle for groceries and supplies. The post office at Brownsville received its mail through the Sackman office. The postmaster at Brownsville walked through the woods and carried the mail on his back. In May 1890 the name of the Sackman Post Office was changed to Tracyton and the location was moved from the Abrahamson home to the hotel and John T. Hansberry was made postmaster. The Town of Tracyton was named in honor of Benjamin Franklin Tracy who was ‘Secretary of the Navy under President Harrison. The mill company built the first school house in Tracyton and Mrs. Geo Kittinger donated the school bell which came from San Francisco. This school served the purposes of the community for many years, not only as a school but a meeting place for entertainment and Church and Sunday school were held there. About 1910 a new school building was built on property back of F. D. Merriman’s place. This two-story school building was used for many years until the present schoolbuilding was built in 1940. The old original school bell was recently donated to the County Historical Museum. In 1891 H. M. Williams was appointed postmaster and served until 1898 when J. P. Riddell was appointed to serve as postmaster until 1915 when his son E. E. Riddell was appointed and served up to date; seeing the office grow from a very ‘small Fourth Class office to a Third Class office, which moved into a new modern building June 21, 1951 One of the peculiarities of the early 80's was the fact that nearly every town site that was plotted had a block reserved for the county seat to be moved from Port Madison. Tracyton in common with the others had a reserve which consisted of a triangle piece of ground on the waterfront. The social activities of the early days seemed to be enjoyed as much as today if not more. A live debating society held interesting debates and gave some well known plays, which helped pass away the long winter evenings. In 1897 when President McKinley was inaugurated, a grand ball, which has long been remembered, was given at which Governor John Rogers and the Commandant of the Navy Yard were present. The banquet was one that was often spoken of by the old timers as being the best served and the most nicely decorated by the excellent talent of Mrs. William Darold. The Indians had names for every large rock, point or shoreline on the bay. According to the word of Joseph W. Sackman the Indians called the shoreline from Tracyton to Fairview “Chelawwai.” William O'Neil homesteaded the property where the J.D. Kilgore’s now live. In 1890 Miss Eva Riddell came to Tracyton from Lakeview, near Tacoma, to teach school and liked the place so much that she persuaded her father to come the next year and buy the stock of groceries which Jesse Baker had in his store in the basement of his house. The house was situated on the comer just north of where Clarence Rakestraw now lives. Mr. J. Riddell also bought the old store building of the mill company, into which he moved the stock of groceries. While he was remodeling the old store building upstairs for living quarters, the family lived in a house long since torn down, but then situated on the waterfront between where Earl Blanchard and Dick Johnson now live. There was also another store in the old hotel building which was operated by Mrs. Dora Hansen. In the early days the families living along the shoreline between here and Manchester would give the Captain of the boat a list of things they needed, which he would purchase in Seattle and bring to them the next day. It was notuncommon for him to buy anything from a spool of thread or a bolt of calico to a bale of hay. Docks were quite a problem to build and keep up and when the mill was moved from Tracyton the problem of repairing the dock became quite a burden. For a while a float was anchored in the bay opposite to where Lents’ now live. This ficat belonged to George Moser who lived where Alguards now reside, and was used for a stopping place for the steamer. Mr. Moser had a large chicken ranch at that time and required feed in large quantities. The old mill dock was rebuilt by donated labor but continued to be a financial problem for many years. In 1908 the Tracyton Dock Association was incorporated and stock sold to help rebuild the dock. Pile drivers even in those days came high, so the community went together and built a pile driver that was operated by horsepower. Mr. H. Hanson used his big team of horses to pull up the heavy hammer that was automatically tripped when it reached the top of the pile driver and dropped to drive in the pile an inch or a foot at a time, so it took many trips of the horses to drive in a pile. Wharf fees were charged and money accumulated to repair the dock from time to time. Cooperative undertakings often became a burden upon a few so in 1929 a Port District was formed to take over the holdings of the old dock company. This continued to function until the steamers discontinued to run. However, the Port District is stil in existence and owns the waterfront from the foot of Tracy Ave to approximately 300 feet south which gives the community free access to that part of the beach. Religion always follows or goes with the pioneer and so it was here in Tracyton. In the early days religious services were conducted by traveling ministers or priests who came to each little community by boat and conducted services, Perhaps once a month. Mr. M. Johnson started a Sunday School in the school house in 1889. From then on various ministers served the people until in 1908 a movement was made to build a church. On January 21, 1909 the Tracyton Methodist Church was incorporated with the following as signers of the incorporation papers: H. Hanson, J. Hansen, M. Jacobson, W. Jazard and J. Riddell. One Alonzo Thorton owned the property now known as the Works’ place in 1904 and same changed hands several times until in 1907 Warren and Della ‘Works bought the property and lived there for many years. His son and wife, Dr. and Mrs. W. Works came to live on the place in 1929. Mr. and Mrs. P. Hogan came about that time and settled on the property now ‘owned by John and Irene Johanson.Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kemp of Fairview arrived in 1901 and they have lived there ever since, Mr. and Mrs. Ward Rowell were early settlers at Fairview and also Pliny Allen. E. H. Kimball was one of early pioneers and married Mary Campbell living at various places on the bay unti they settled on property just back of Isaac S. Sackman. The Tracyton Grange was organized shortly after the tum of the century and continued as an active organization until the early forties when it was discontinued. Mr. and Mrs. A. Bergland were active members of the Grange for many years. The Grange built a large two story building on the property now occupied by Don and Pauline Bernritter. Sam Jackson started a grocery store in one room of the ground floor. In 1917 the building burned to the ground. Mr. and Mrs. S. Lindsey arrived in Tracyton and bought the Helen Dow property where they have lived ever since. Jim has been active in many civic organizations, helping to organize the Tracyton Improvement Club in 1926, along with W. Deltherage and E. Riddell. The Club has been active every since and has accomplished many improvements in roads and local improvements. After the fire the Grange moved into a large warehouse on the waterfront that was also used for dances until it bumed one evening just before an entertainment. After this happened the Grange built the present community hall. The Tracyton Improvement Club started a movement to form a Water District in 1945 to furnish water to the people of the community. Four acres of land was bought from H. Backus and the district was bonded for $65,000 and a contract let to install thousands of feet of cast iron pipe throughout Tracyton and as far north as Fairview. The following were elected as the first water commissioners: Erie Lent, William Warren, Joe Cole, the latter being succeeded by Paul Hughes when Mr. Cole moved away. In 1947 the Improvement Club sponsored the Volunteer Fire Department, which secured two up-to-date fire trucks and is now completing a fire hall. Tracyton is becoming a residential area for Bremerton businessmen, several of whom have built expensive homes on the waterfront. H. Lebo, T. Morrison, Emie Lent, E. Stingle and Harold Lent are among some of the businessmen to locate here. ‘As logging was the only industry in the early days, it was not an uncommon occurrence to see huge booms of logs in the bay. The Sackman brothers andLouis Gardiner wee the men who logged off most of the virgin timber surrounding Tracyton. Huge logs six feet in diameter, or more, were pulled out of the woods by oxen. For many years an old ox bam stood on the waterfront just below where the Dedoyards’ live now. The old skid road ran up Tracy Ave to about where the Grange Hall is and then southeast past where Jim and Harriet Morton now live, thence out into the woods to Louis Gardiner’s marsh, later called Clare's Marsh. One could hear the voice of the bull puncher yelling at the oxen and the roar of the oxen when goaded by a sharp brad in the end of it. Those were pioneer days. The Sackman brothers had a skid road running north through what is now Munro's dairy ranch, and unloaded logs on top of the hill at Work’s place, where a long chute ran down into the bay. The logs were rolled into this chute and soon gained tremendous momentum by the time they hit the water in the bay, sending up a shower of water a hundred feet into the air. During the panic of 1893, the logging business almost came to an end and no one had work, my father J. P. Riddell, secured a big contract to furnish cord ‘wood for the fast steamer Flyer which ran between Seattle and Tacoma and bumed large quantities of wood. This gave employment to many men. The dock and waterfront road were piled high with cord wood and huge scows were loaded and towed away by tugs. One Halloween some boys piled cord wood across the entrance to the dock and no one was able to get out to the daily boat until Harry Hanson got a row boat and ferried them out to the steamer. We sometimes wonder if the beauty of our grand scenery is appreciated as much as it should be. Oftentimes, we are so close to the forest that we cannot see it for the trees. We believe that the beauty of the rugged Olympic Mountains towering on the westem skyline has had more to do with the holding of the early settlers to the hardships they passed through than they would admit. Tracyton has the most beautiful residence district on the bay, facing the Olympic Mountains that can be seen from no other place to better advantage. It is well worth the climb to the hills back of the town to obtain an almost inspiring sight of the little town front, the beautiful colored waters of the bay reflecting the tall irs that give it an emerald setting, and further in the distance are the ever changing snow capped Olympic Mountains which never lose their charm. They seem to be ever changing with the change of the sky. We look into the bosom of a mountainous country and every change in the light reveals something new.Where we have looked many times without seeing anything, at length some beautiful new outline appears in faint silver on the distant horizon. More Tracyton History Excerpts from a meeting held in Tracyton. Some of the old-timers attending were Irene Johansen, Gladys Scherer, Al Grant, Duncan Munro, Bob and Joyce Carter, Martin Holland and Lulu (Babe) (Sackman) Stevens. First Speaker Bob Carter: First of all when | was called upon to be on this panel | understood it to be a living room session and here we turn out and fil our hall which I think is just wonderful. The panel is not up here to carry on the entire program, in other words we want an audience participation. First of all, ! was very reluctant in coming up here. | have only been in Tracyton for 53 years and | can look out there and see at least four people, who | am sure, have changed my diapers! This is a little embarrassing to me. Also, it isn't possible for me to come up here and give you a big line because there are those in the audience who would correct me real quickly. To start off | think it would be rather fitting; this is one time that | am quite sure any lady in the audience would not be reluctant to tell her age because termed an old timer is something that age has nothing to do with. So, may I start by asking those to raise their hands that have been in Tracyton prior to 1930, By Tracyton | mean Sheridan Heights and Fairview. Raise you hand prior to 1920- 1910. We want your participation but there are a few things we should start with to get the ball rolling. No. |, I wonder how many of you know that one time we had sidewalks in Tracyton? Several of you know this. Yes, we did. We had boardwalks in Tracyton from the top of the hill (Tracy Ave and Tracyton Blvd) down to the beach and from the beach up as far as the cemetery along the beach. Secondly, at one time there was quite a large saloon located on the waterfront (at the foot of Tracy Ave approximately 1890) just above where the old Tracyton dock (at the foot of Tracy Ave on the beach road) used to be. Also, Tracyton had one of the first post offices in the local area. It was in the old hotel before Riddell’s store. Next there is an item that probably you do not know — how Sulpher Springs got its name (one mile south of Tracyton on the beach road). At ‘one time boats and people would come in with containers and gallons jugs from their homes. The public did use it. | don't know what good it was but they claimed it was good. There was also an iron springs by Sackman's (near Silver Beach). Also another item, the building in which we are seated is the third hall in Tracyton. The first one was a two story building located where the Bernritter's live (Hansberry and Riddell) at the present time. The bottom floor of that hall was used for a store building. There was a store there for quite sometime. Later, it burned down and due to lack of funds and other reasons they took over a hall which was built by a mill company and was located at the foot of the main street here in Tracyton. It stayed there for quite sometime, until it too burned down;they later built the present building at Tracy and Tracyton Blvd that we are in now. First of all, we more or less broke this up into categories. Some of us are going to take *post office”, some “farming”; some “logging. | will take logging, which was probably one of the main things that brought people to Tracyton. No, 1 wonder how many of you know how Tracyton got it's name. It was named after the Secretary of the Navy under President Harrison, Benjamin Franklin Tracy (and established about 1890). There was a reason for choosing the Secretary of the Navy because at that time they were looking for a place to locate a naval shipyard so they thought by using his name perhaps it would help; it did not. The water between here and Manette was not adequate to bring in big ships. Consequently, Tracyton did not become Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Of course, logging all centered around the water. They would dump the logs into the water, take them to a mill (at the foot of Tracy) or have their own mill set up. The first mill was built in approximately 1889 at the foot of the main street of Tracyton. In conjunction with the mill, also built was mill housing, several real nice buildings for the mill workers; they also constructed a hotel and saloon which were evidently necessary items for mill workers. One of the first boats around this area was a ttle steamer owned by the mill company. The mill company built i's own dock (at the foot of Tracy). Later on, a second boat appeared on the scene, which made weekly trips between here and Seattle. This boat was on the run to bring mail since this was one of the main post offices around the Sound. Brownsville people came to Tracyton to claim their mail The mill company was very reluctant to let outside steamers use their dock facilities. People would row out to the boats and either get aboard for the return trip to Seattle or give their lists to the skipper or to the “deckeys” of the things that they needed from the big city. People had floats to load and unload from. There was a big float in front of Sputes at Fairview. Another float was at the foot of Nichols in front of where Lents’ now live. The captain had different whistle signals for each family along the way. When the captain signaled, the family would row out for freight or passengers. The dock at Fairview was built about 1915. Items needed were anything from a spool of thread to whatever was needed and the skipper would do this for the people. Later there were several boats that were on the Tracyton- Silverdale run, such as the Renton, Grace, Robinson Mountaineer, Mariet Pulley, Pilgrim and the Garden City, all approximately before 1900; later the F.G. Reeve, Norwood, 1900-1920, and the Chicory were launch substitutes when others broke down to approximately 1935. Florence K. and the Atlanta served the area; then the F. G. Reeves was added to the run. The F. G. Reeves is probably the ‘one that most of us remember. Leaving and upon call from Erland's Point itwould run to Erland’s Point for a pick-up, then continue onto Silverdale, Fairview, Tracyton, Sheridan, Bremerton and down the line. They had several stops along the way. I'm up here giving you all this and | see a gentleman who could straighten me out real quickly on the boats. In fact, | would like to introduce him because he is the man who worked the boats many years ago. Mr. Al Lee, would you stand up? Let's give him a hand. If | ama little “off” don't correct me but if | am “way off" then do so. Basically the boat was used for hauling produce, and hauling for the ranchers. Then later on when the navy yard came into existence it was naturally used for a passenger boat. Also, there are probably about five or six of us who rode the boat to Bremerton High School. Now | want to go back a litle bit. | mentioned that the mill company was a little reluctant to let outside vessels use their dock; and as | said they would row out to the boat, but then later on they built a float out in the bay in front of where Mrs. Ernie Lent lives (at the foot of Nichols) at the present time. This seemed to be where most of the people would get out on this float, the boat would land and the People would give them their lists or get on for the trip to Seattle. There are several things that have been passed on to me that might be amusing to you. This boat would haul anything that was to be hauled; cattle, oxen, produce, and mainly feed to the Silverdale Co-Op in the later years. A load of cattle came into Tracyton one time when the tide was low. They couldn't unload the cattle so they just kicked them overboard and several of the cows got the idea of where they were to go but the remainder of them swam over to Rocky Point. It took them a week or two to round them up. Another incident that might be amusing to you; there were three yoke of oxen which were used in the woods by Willie Gardener who logged the area around Clare's Marsh. These oxen had only seen the local surroundings when Willie decided to get rid of them because he had another logging job just outside of Seattle. All the people asked him how he was going to take these oxen to his new place. “Well,” he said, “I am going to take them down to the boat, load ‘em up, and send them to Seattle, take them off, yoke ‘em up, and take them up 1* Avenue.” Not many people believed this. These animals had never seen people, so to speak, and street cars were going to be something else! So this was going to be quite the thing for the people who worked on the boat to see him yoke up these oxen and take them up 1* Avenue. But he did and no one could believe that he had that much control over those animals. Now here’s where | can be embarrassed if | only have two minutes. Let's try to stick to boats because some of these other people will probably be speaking of something else. Are there any questions? If | can't answer them | am sure somebody here can answer regarding the early transportation (which was boats). There weren't any roads; only wagon paths and trails. After Black Ball was running there was another competitive boat running from Bremerton to Seattle called the Commander. They would haul very few cars; somewhere from eight to ten. This was a competitive boat only. Now, in order to get the people-traffic away from Black Ball they put on an additional boat that would go up the bay to meet the Commander and bring the people up to around this area. One of them was called the “On Time” and the other “Sky Lark.” There is a little story that 10goes with those boats too. They were little speedboats, in fact they were the fastest we had ever seen around here; the reason, they were used to haul “booze” from Canada! Later they were taken over by the Washington Transportation Company and used as passenger boats ‘Second Speaker Gladys Scherer (early church) Of course all of you know where the church was located; on top of the hill (Naomi, between Tracy and Nichols) down in front of the water. When we came here in 1906, it had just been built by the local people. Mr. Bergland was one of the main builders. It was more or less in a rough stage. It was just one great big room on the ground floor. The heating system was one of those huge wood stoves. You used great big hunks of wood in it. Later we used coal. For lights we had kerosene lamps until 1925 when electricity was installed. We sat on round back chairs such as the ones you have in your kitchen. Those were the only chairs we had. We were all in one great big room so we had a class here and a class there. Then we had a little podium up in front. Our minister came down from Silverdale. There was only one minister because we couldn't afford two. We didn't have one until 1949. Reverend Slate was Tracyton's first minister (1949-1959). In 1923 they raised the church and added the basement. Then we had classes in the basement. We had a furnace in the basement and we had a post down through the middle of the floor. We had a sink in one comer and a Kitchen in one comer and all our gatherings in the basement. That church is now torn down (1969). In 1949 we started the educational building. We bought the Old post office and moved it over to the church grounds and had it for classrooms. Then it was given to the library for a library building. We used that for several years as a library. Then between that and the church, the Anderson's built a home that was later sold to the church and that became the parsonage for a number of years. After Reverend Slate came we built the educational wing, bought a small parsonage and that was turned into classrooms. After Reverend Slate left and a couple more ministers came, Reverend Calkins came and we started Sullivan Hall named after Lulu Sullivan, After that the old church started to teeter back and forth every time we had a storm. During the fall of 1969 we had to tear the building down. Now there is nothing left except our educational building. Someday we hope to build our new Chapel. Someone asked where the bell came from. To date it is not known. It has always been there as far as | know. Third Speaker Irene Johansen My folks came in 1903. Is that some kind of a record? My mother was named Jessie Hogan. | know that will ring a bell to some of you. My parent's home was located down at the old Warrington place located on the beach (1/2 mile north of Tracyton) just below us. They were truck gardeners. As you know there were no roads in those days, everybody used the boat. But they had a little gas boat or launch as they were called in those days. They took their produce to Bremerton. "They had everything under the sun from berries to chickens. Three times a year they had to break or plow the soil. | guess it just about killed them. They raised three crops a year and took it in and grew another crop. How they did it, ! don't know. But finally they got wom out and sold out about 1920 and moved to ‘Alaska and bought a fishing boat. My husband and | came here in 1925. As you know, Mr. Warrington bought the house down at the beach. But there were three acres left so John and | bought that. The house that we live in, if you can call it that, was really a hired man’s cabin. It had two rooms, no lights, no phone, no plumbing, no porch, no basement. Not really much of anything there. But we started our family there and little by litle we added all the conveniences. It is stil an old house with all the conveniences. My folks had this gas boat as | said, one of the first. They did pretty well on their farm because they all had different crops on their farm and they didn't sell crops locally, they took them to Bremerton. They had lots of eager customers just waiting for them. So, finally one of the roads got put through here and they got one of the first model T's. It went chugging over the wagon roads. We won't say what kinds of roads they were because we don't use that kind of language. The depression hit, you remember, on October 29, 1929. My husband and | had a little fur farm for about ten years. | don’t think many of you remember that. We raised mink and two kinds of foxes. We thought we were going to get rich quick, but we didn’t. Well, we probably would have done pretty well on it except for the 1929 crash and first thing to go were the luxuries. Fur was, of course, a luxury. About 1937-38 until 1941 the buildup for the war started. The housing projects were Eastpark, Westpark and Sheridan Park. They began to build houses like mad! People knew the Navy Yard was going to be very, very busy because they could see all those people coming. They didn't have any bus lines or very good roads yet. The Government, as you can remember, restricted everybody's gas consumption to five gallons or one gas stamp a week. People began to think of public transportation but we woke up a litle too late when we thought we would start a bus line. The Government said nobody could buy any buses unless you had special permission from Washington, D.C. because everything that ran on wheels was already spoken for and it had to go to the place where it was most important to the war effort. So to buy a bus you had to get special permission even if you had the money in your hand. Well, that took months and, in the meantime, there were all these people that were anxious to get to work and had no gas. So we scrounged around to find an old bus that didn't need this special release. We found one old school bus that had been abandoned because it was too old. We fixed it up so it would run and called it “Bouncing Bessie.” We managed to get another one and it was called “Yellow Peril.” Then we got another bus called the “Green Hornet.” You should have seen it! It was kind of top heavy, canvas top, one with those big wicker chairs on it with the head rests. Itwas so comfortable you could go to sleep on it while you bounced down the road. Well, later on we fixed up a couple more used buses and then finally the release came through and we managed to get a couple of new buses and by that time the war was over. We had one called the “Toonerville Trolley” and the urs“Gray Duck.’ Then we got a ten passenger DeSoto. It looked like a hearse and everyone called it the “long last ride." We didn’t make much money but we had lots of fun. The first time they had kindergarten around here they hired the “Yellow Peril.” Because the seats were small and it was a school bus it was used for kindergarten kids. But again we sold out. We got kind of tired and | am kind of old. So we sold out to the city in 1956. That's all. Fourth Speaker Al Grant | was asked to speak about the early day post office. The first post office in the whole area, the whole bay, the peninsula and Dyes Inlet, was established in 1884 and was called Dyes. It was located on the property that Milton Hammergen lives on at this time (one mile south of Tracyton on Tracyton Blvd.) Asshort time later they wanted to honor D. J. Sackman, the grandfather of Dan and Bob, it was named Sackman Post Office until 1890 when they changed it to Tracyton, as Bob Carter told about Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin Franklin Tracy under President Harrison. The first postmaster was Dora Abrams later called Mrs. Dora Hansen. Another site for the post office was the property now known as the Rakestraw property, in the old hotel, on Tracy and Naomi. The old hotel used to sit there. There used to be a saloon. Well, they had to keep those loggers and millwrights happy. In 1898 or a litle later, Emie Riddell’s grandfather was named postmaster. The post office was moved a block north to a large two- story house (on Naomi and Tracy below the community church). The Riddell family bought the house that had a store-home overhead. They put ina stock of groceries and the post office was there for many years. Mr. Riddell, the father, died and Emie took over. He was around 25 when he became postmaster and bought an office building from the mill company that owned a mill down the beach and moved it up to what is now the corner where Martin Holland lives (Tracy and Painter). It was moved several times. It was in the comer of Olson's store; | couldn't keep track of how many times that building got moved but finally | came here in 1931 and the post office was there in one comer (Tracyton Bivd and Tracy). Mr. Emie Riddell bought a lot where the present post office sits. He had the post office in this building until he built this block post office building. It was built in 1951. Ernie Riddell was postmaster for 52 years in all. I don't know how many years his father was before him. | think there will always be a Tracyton Post Office as long as it has such good patronage. So many of these small post offices have been closed due to lack of patrons. We have so many people using this post office. The whole peninsula uses it, especially at Christmas time. Fifth Speaker Mrs. John Stevens (Lulu (Babe) Sackman) Our father donated the cemetery to Tracyton about 1890 or 1900. He donated the property for schools, Tracyton Elementary and Silverdale High School. He had the school in his home. D. J. Sackman was my grandfather. Later the kids 13had to go to Manette to school and that big old oak tree that is down there by the bridge was in the front yard of the school. Dr. Bender told me that my father carved his name in this tree. The schoolmaster had brought the tree from Massachusetts and planted it. That of course made the schoolmaster mad. | guess he cut off a limb and gave him a thrashing. Chief Seattle (Sealth) was my mother's (Lulu Beatrice Sackman) great-great grandfather. My Uncle Ike ‘Sackman lived to be 100 years old. What was the year that the first settlers settled around here? | believe it was 1851 My father (Joseph Sackman) said when he was 15 years old he was the boss of a logging camp in Chico. Often oxen would get loose and he would try and catch them and by the time he could catch them the oxen's feet would be sore and they would be laid up for a week. Al Grant asked, “Did your father ever log through this area?” “Yes’, he did. About half of Kitsap County, | guess. There were four brothers; Issac, Dan, Joe and Dave. Uncle Dave Sackman was the sheriff of this county at one time. About what time was Dave Sackman the sheriff? About 1916 or whenever it first got to be a county (Kitsap), | suppose. They tell me Old Military Road is a former ox trail (Al Grant). Yes it was. I can remember when this road out here was first built. When | was a pretty little kid. The postman used to bring the mail with two horses and a buggy. Anyone traveling between here and Silverdale had to carry a shovel and a saw (Al Grant). We didn't have good roads here until the Navy blacktopped the roads during the war years. Al Grant speaking: | don't believe that there is a family that did more for the town of Tracyton than the Sackmans’. If it weren't for them and their logging operations | doubt very much there would have been a Tracyton. And in regard to the skid roads which you probably heard mentioned a moment ago, there were two main skid roads; one ran up the canyon (about where Riddell Road is now) that went to Clare's Marsh (Riddell Road and Brownsville Highway) We have one of the Clares’ and Mr. Al Lee here tonight. They used to walk this, skid road down to the Tracyton Schoo! when they were kids. Another interest maybe some of you don’t know what a skid road is. It's a road with logs imbedded in the ground to act as skids, so that the logs would slide down them. During the summer the skids would get real dry and they would grease the skids with dogfish oil. When the sun came out you can imagine what the dogfish oil would do for you. These kids had to walk over this every day. The other skid road ran from Sackman's Marsh, which is now Munro's Dairy (on the South Central Valley Road about one mile north of Tracyton) to the bay in the vicinity of the Works’ property: there the logs slid over the bank into a chute, rafted onto a boom (1/2 mile north of Tracyton on Tracyton Blvd.) and towed by tug toa mill. It was originally done by oxen and later the Sackmans’ brought in huge teams of 14horses and they had their stables down here at the foot of the hill (intersection of Naomi and Tracy Streets) where they kept their logging teams. Sixth Speaker Duncan Munro 1am suppose to talk about farming and when you look out over the people out here I think they have the wrong people up front! Well, point them out. | would like to call on the Berglund Sisters. They have known me since | was about that high. They probably can tell more about Tracyton than all of us. Somebody, Lulu Sackman (Mrs. Stevens) was talking about names and schools. This is taken from “Emie Riddell's History of Tracyton.” | don't know how many of you have read it but it was taken from the Tracyton Library. The following students attended school in 1888: Emma Sackman, Ed Sackman, Joe Sackman, Porter Frye, John Peckinpaugh, Anna Peckinpaugh, Louie Peckinpaugh, Lizzie Moorehead, Jessie Williams, Charlie Porter, George Causman, Mike Benbennick, Charlie Steele, Walter Steele and James Peckinpaugh. At that time . J. Kickie was the teacher. There is another list of names if I can find it here. Others who came here at that time were James Lake, John Frieberg, Net Time, Theodore Wiliams, A. C. Fowler, William Abrahamson and John Garrison, a Negro who married a full blooded Indian. Mrs. Garrison lived to be 106 years old and was well liked and respected by everyone. How many of you remember Jane Garrison? | heard this story one time: John Garrison said he was the “first white man” to come to Dyes Inlet. My father came here when | was six months old. He brought his belongings to Tracyton and they moved him in on a little launch and then hired Bill Strike and his horses and wagon to haul Garrison up to where my dad lives today (South Central Valley Road and one mile north of Tracyton). How many of you remember the name of Bill Stike? He lived where Mrs. Don Reece lives today (Tracyton Blvd. and Nichols) They talked about the post office being down on the comer where Martin Holland lives. I can remember walking there before | started school and the dust on the road was very thick. Iremember getting the mail. | had to pull myseff up to the post office window. In 1924 my father started a dairy. He delivered milk in a Model “T” Ford (caritruck) from Tracyton on through Sheridan and Manette. | tried to find out what some of the conditions were. There weren't any roads. It was a good trail in the summertime but it was just a one-way road when he first started. The people depended on the milk truck. He went through here around nine o'clock in the morning delivering his milk and there were ladies waiting at the post office or the store wanting a ride to town because the boat left at seven a.m. Same with the bread truck. As far as the farming goes it was a chore and we despised it of 15course. Now we look back and we wonder if we really despised it or were just fighting it. That is all | have to say; there are lots of things to mention if anyone has any questions. There was a lady out there that Bob wanted to introduce; Gladys Clare Foster who came to us earlier in the evening. Her father moved to Clare's Marsh. | wanted to introduce her because they were farming up there too. Thank you. Seventh Speaker Martin Holland | came to this country when | was quite young and had the enjoyable ride on the F. G. Reeve that landed on the dock down here. One of the natives, Mr. H. A. Pahrmann, who's son John lives up on Holland Road now, was gracious enough to give us a ride to a party named Matthew Thompson who was my uncle. We came out for a visit on August 16, 1926. | might say that | would never have gone out of here unless | had a round trip ticket but on the way up we had to travel over a bridge on the present site of the school that was about some 75 to 80 feet high and about 300 feet Iong | believe. You would wind your way up to the north to the stumps, and | might say in the winter time where Carl Jackson and John Trudeau live now, that each time the water got deeper you would just move over a stump or two and make another road. At one time | think there were five or six bypasses in there. My uncle had some lots up there. They called them lots but they were five- acre garden tracts. A fellow by the name of Manfred Pearich laid them out. He put a real large right-of-way (33 feet) up the middle of the tract of land. At that time there were the L.P. Olson's where Raymond Buchanen lives now. They were the first ones up there, followed by Matthew Thompson. My folks lived in that place that Bob Paschal lives in now {about one mile north of Tracyton on Holland Road). Martin Thomas lived in the next place. | think Mrs. Manning owns it now. Up on top of the hill lived John Gabelheigh and H. O. Pahrmann was on the next one. Pahrmanns came in the early 20's or 30's. At first Holland Road was just a wagon trail. Pahrmann was a dairy farmer. Then beyond that was fellow by the name of Lemmon (east side of Central Valley Road about % mile south of the Fairgrounds Road). There are parts of the log cabin left on the Kilgore property now. Next was D. M. Munroe. ‘That was the total number of settlers in that area. Now there are about 27-28 houses up there. So that road up there is Holland Road carried on from my dad. Eighth Speaker Joyce Carter My folks (Charles and Mary Hammergren) first came here in 1910 and they settled on a five-acre tract down where Milton Hammergren now lives (one mile south of Tracyton on Tracyton Bivd.). They stayed there for about five years when the house burned down. So they left and went back to California and that was where | was born. Then we came back again in 1926. That is when | started school up here. Virginia Carlsen was my first grade teacher and | 16understood that she was coming tonight. Is she here? Anyway, when | was in second grade we met in a two- story building located between Hart and Hansberry Streets. It was four rooms. The top had been condemned so we were all on the bottom floor, There was one teacher for four grades. My first, second, third and fourth grade teacher was Virginia Carlson and the other teacher was Katherine Jordon. Then Palma Johnson came and my brother married her. She was my third and fourth grade teacher. | think our fifth and sixth grade teacher was Agnes Sund. Seventh and eighth grade was Svea Apdal. We went to school there for eight years. For playground equipment they built a play shed that had rings in it. | think we had about four swings and a teeter totter. Also, there was a “gainstride.” We would hang on that thing and go around. When it froze we would stick our tongues on it and we would all stick to it, We had quite a rash of broken arms. Duncan had one, also Clifford Olson and myself. "You might ask (Duncan Munro speaking) Martin Holland how | got mine broke.” “You might ask Harriet how | got mine broken" (Joyce speaking). Miss Gladys Jones (Mrs. Fred Theis) married and her dad built her a house right across from where the Hammergrens lived (about one mile south of Tracyton on Tracyton Bivd.). Our neighbors down in that area were the Sleepers; Coutts lived right next door. They sold out to Luther Elmore. Then the Sleepers lived in the house that Nelson's have. At that time it was over where Browns’ are located. Then later they moved it across the road. What | always remember about Mrs. Sleeper was that she was a ttle heavyset lady. They came from Massachusetts and she was always up here. She was the main one on the election board. The voting headquarters was always right here in the Grange Hall. She was up here putting the flag up, ringing one of those little bells and yelling, “Hear Ye! Hear Ye! The polls are now open.” And in those days the main activity was the Grange which was quite active in those days. You brought your kids and we all went to sleep on the benches that were along the side of the wall. The Hard Shell Club met once a year. What was the Hard Shell Club? It was like the Elks maybe. Then they had a ladies Get-Together Club, the Ladies Aid and the church. We had a Camp Fire Group and Mrs. Inez Solie was our leader at that time. There weren't the activities that we have now. | guess they had school and PTA of course and church activities, When we first came here we didn’t have lights and we didn't have a bathroom or any of that stuff Irene Johansen was talking about. | don't known when electricity finally hit Tracyton. Gladys Scherer spoke “In 1927 Mr. Morey of Silverdale had a private electric company. He got his power from the Elwa River. This power served the areas of Chico, Tracyton, Fairview, Brownsville and Seabeck. He sold out to Puget Power about 1920." We did have all the conveniences here. We had Martin's store in Manette; they would come out once a week and take your grocery order and deliver. Archie Bouchard would come around either once or twice a week with a meat truck. It was a little old truck fixed up with all the different kids of meats from Etton’s in Manette. 7Then we had the fish wagon with Mrs. Valcanda. That was later. Then we had the Golden Rule bakery truck that would come around once or twice a week. In the schools they had potbelly stoves in each room. They used black coal. In those days we did have buses. | think Don Atkinson was our first driver at 14. Don and Dick were the bus drivers when I went to grade school and high school. Itjust happened that they lived at the end of the bus line so they (Atkinson's) drove the buses. Eli Johnson had a sawmill up here in back of Tracyton. | don't know how many of you remember that. Eli Johnson's mother was the school janitor for as long as | can remember. The ‘only thing | can think of that might be of interest was when we first moved here we could look across the bay to the old Matthew's house on Rocky Point and there were two other houses on that flat. One of the highlights was that one of houses burned down and the old chimney stood there for a long time. Comments from the Audience: Does anyone remember Mrs. Erdining and Mrs. Von Hohne? They were the teachers that were here when | came here in 1934. Mrs. Von Hohne was the primary teacher and Mrs. Erdining the seventh and eighth grade teacher. Irene Johanson added “my kids went to the old elementary school. They just missed the log cabin. It wasn't ready until they were ready for the other school, Then the new high school was built and they went there.” The schools were very interesting and colorful. When Mrs. Erdining was principal, the kids called her “Earwig’, she had four grades under her. She had a rubber hose which she used. She maintained order with four grades. When you maintain order with four grades you are doing pretty well. | am glad you mentioned about Mrs. Johnson being the janitor. They didn't have plumbing or a heater and she kept that school real nice and neat. Of course, Eli Johnson is her son and should be here tonight. He is an old timer too. About 1925 we still had to haul water as we didn't have a well. Gideon Hermanson, President, Kitsap Historical Society: | want to go back 53 or 54 years ago. Back in 1917 and 1918 | used to go with a school teacher in Bremerton and we would take the little ferry across to Manette, walk from there to Tracyton because her sister Mary Iverson was teaching school here. Perhaps some of you remember her. Babe Sackman had her for a teacher. Then, Mary had a boyfriend who had a model “T” Ford. | believe his name was Grover Williams. Sometimes he would take Agnes and | back to the Manette dock but when he came to Pitts hill over there | would have to get out and push. Mr. Munro, who you spoke about earlier, used to deliver milk to us. We had the first bathtub and the first electric range out where Eastpark is now. You mentioned the Sleepers, who lived down by Sulphur Springs, 1-1/2 miles south of Tracyton ‘on Tracyton Blvd. The Sleepers used to have a wonderful sweet corn patch 18down there. Mary, my wife, and | went down there to the sweet corn patch and there lay a dead goose here and a dead goose there. There were 11 dead geese lying around his house. So | asked Mr. Sleeper if he was killing off his geese? He said, “No, but somebody was here last night and he killed all but one of them." It was a cougar that killed all his geese. Up near Clares Marsh there were some boys and they had a hound dog. They brought him over and put him on the scent of the cougar. That was 1924. It was a wonderful hound dog but he couldn't find that cougar. Bob (Carter), do you have something you would like to add about Burt Carter Sr? Yes, there was one main ranch around here, it was the Carter Ranch. It's about half way between here and the Sheridan Park dock. The entire hillside was used for produce. Many of the youngsters and young adults picked berries and other produce at Carters. Don Adkinson used to work for Burt Carter and apparently did very well because he is now running one of the local main banks. Also, he is one of the oldest present from the Sheridan Hill area. Don Atkinson, how about you coming up here and telling us about that area and the Carter Ranch? At one time Don was president of the Hard Shell Club. | think the less said about the Hard Shell Club the better! We had a meeting once a year and people from Bremerton used to come. We met on New Year's Eve and everyone just did what they wanted to do. They had a picnic in the summer. Bob's aunt, Ellen Hansen, is probably the one that held it together. | was just looking around this hall and I can remember when we dedicated this hall; it was 1923. We came up and had a dance. There wasn't any roof on it at all. It was a box social. | was about eleven or twelve years old. | came up and bid and got a lunch prepared by Lucy Gray. ‘At Sheridan Heights were the Dickersons, Mortons, Greenstreet kids, Parker kids, Kanthack, Van Stralens, Irishes, Peckinpaughs, Hubbells, Billings, Champlins, Hodge and Skagles. They used to have a shortage of bus drivers 80 when | was 14 years old they got me a special permit to drive the bus between Sheridan and Silverdale The bus had been in our family. My sister Sally drove it for three years; another sister Francis drove it for a couple of years. There weren't any more Atkinsons old enough so they got me a special license. | drove it for three years and then my brother Dick drove it for three years. We were at the end of the line and and the last ones off the bus. The roads were all gravel. We drove a Model “T” Ford with a "Warpor’ overdrive transmission. We used to clock it sometimes at 70 mph. Moderator: “Thank you Don Atkinson” Moderator: Things that we still would like to mention in the Tracyton history are the Fire Department, Water Department, the Fair, and the School. The current Tracyton Elementary opened in 1938 and the new Fairview Intermediate opened in 1971. 19Moderator: Who started our beautiful Christmas tree? Joyce Carter: | remember when this tree was dedicated and it was lovely tree ‘then and a pretty big tree at that time. | believe they had a plaque for it. From the Bremerton Sun, Monday, November 29, 1971 letter to the Editor: Tracyton Tree Editor, the Sun: We feel there has been some misinformation given about Tracyton's famous. tree. In 1908, Charles and Grace Ellis bought the property adjoining the Fryberg Estate on which the white fir was growing. At that time the tree was about 12 feet high. The branches were evenly spaced and the needles were fiat. Although the tree was not on the Ellis property our family cared for it, The children played under it’s wide branches but never climbed the tree or broke the limbs. The Ellis property was sold in 1935 and at that time the tree was stil in it's original place. There are several family pictures showing the tree in the background. Grace Ellis 832 Cogean Avenue Bremerton, WA Moderator: How long has the Tracyton Fire Department been decorating this, tree? Emie Gertsch, were you the first decorator? Erie Gertsch: *Yes, | think | was the first one to go up.” Martin Holland: “It had been decorated some 19 or 20 years ago. We skipped one year during the war. | think Tex Mullins was the instigator. The first Fire Department was in 1947; Al Grant was the first Fire Chief. We put our jars out for money and the collection helped pay for the lights and electricity needed for the tree.” The men that first organized to form the Tracyton Fire Department were Erie Lent, Ray Darling, Joe Sullivan, Ernie Riddell and Martin Holland. The first elected commissioners were Ray Darling, Joe Sullivan and Martin Holland. The first year the Fire Department operated by donations and money making projects within the community. They had a fishing derby, raffles, card games and bingo. Bingo continued for about 15 years until there was sufficient tax money to make the Fire Department self-supporting. The first fire truck was a tank that the men fixed themselves. 20Moderator: Every year there is a nativity scene under the Tracyton Christmas Tree that is sponsored by the Tracyton United Methodist Church. Shirley Lent, can you tell us that touching story about the nativity scene? Shirley Lent: Mother (Mrs. E. B. Lent) you're going to have to help me. The Detriechs that lived during the war where Maude Greer lived across the street from the Tracyton School and near the water, came to visit one recent Christmas. They came out to see the lighted tree. As they approached the tree and the manger scene they met Mr. Fred Needham (who owned the Needham's garage adjacent to the tree) very nearly in tears. Mr. Needham explained, “Somebody has stolen the Baby Jesus." The Detreich’s daughter replied, “Someone visiting must be on the hot lines to Jerusalem!” Moderator: Thank you Shirley. Now, who can tell about the person that played the bagpipes on the beach? Bob Carter: This gentleman had a little gas boat. He used to drift out with the tide. He just loved to play the bagpipes. | think his name was Johnny Grey. Pretty soon he would drift back in. Moderator: Thank you Bob. Question from the floor: Who can tell about the old Patterson home? (Unknown) The home was built by Mr. Cross about 1914. They had two daughters, Marion and Lois. The Reverend Grabert Anderson, Methodist Minister from Silverdale lived there during the 1900's. The Pattersons came afer that. Irene Johanson: The Pattersons came during the depression about 1929 or 1930. They had 11 kids and Mrs. Patterson kept them busy in Cub Scouts, the church, doing odd jobs and things that needed to be done. They were good workers and good kids. Moderator: Thank you, Irene. Gideon Hermanson: Who knows who planted the oak trees in front of Jim Lindsey's (Tracy and Hart) home? | planted 13 oak trees at the fair grounds along the fence from little seedlings that Jim Lindsey gave me. Mrs, Harmon: Before the Lindseys came the Dows lived there. That was about 1906. It was part of an experiment station with chicken houses and other developments. Moderator: Thank you Mrs. Harmon (The following items were learned after the meeting concluded.) From Irene Johanson: The L&B Club (Layette and Bride) probably started during the depression with hard times. Each member gave a little bit of money. Hattie Lindsey, mother of five children, Jane Harmon, Eva Rakestraw, and Jim Lindsey Sr. started the club. It was a social fun group. The members made things to have on hand. Charter members were Marie Sackman, Nina Lindsey, Eva Rakestraw and Gertie Hanson. The group is still active after 40 years. One of the projects has been to contribute to Holly Ridge, a schoo! for retarded children. During the early years of its formation they gave each new bride or new baby in the community a litle gift or shower. 21Maybelle Warren describes another active social club busy in Tracyton. This was probably started in the 1920's and continued with worthwhile projects until the early 1960's. The Get-Together Club was started with Ella Champlin, mother of Inez Solie and Blanche Copley. They contributed to the ship “Hope”, the Community Library, Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and other worthwhile projects and needs of the community. ‘Scouting came to Tracyton in the late 1930's. Maybelle Warren and Maxine Sulivan started the Cub Scouts. The Boy Scouts received the Scout Hall from Carl Holmberg. It was an old building used by his dad, a road constructor, in Port Orchard. The Scout fathers demolished the building and, using Carl Holmberg's truck, moved it to the current Scout site adjacent to the ballpark in Tracyton. The Scout fathers donated time and effort after work and on weekends to rebuild and fix it up during the period from 1946 to 1950. Bill Warren, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Warren, was Tracyton’s first Eagle Scout in 1944. ‘The formation of the Water District was another project for the community in the 1940's. It was spear headed and inspired by Ernie Lent with Joe Cole and Bill Warren as the first three commissioners. Moderator: If we had time, there are many things we could continue to reminisce about. Perhaps it would be best if we could plan for another night soon. Thanks to the panel for your contribution to the Tracyton Night and to each of you in the audience who shared, too. (Moderator: Jean Dominy) 22