A community service of BARN: the Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network
In each episode of this BCB podcast show, we listen in on a 15 to 25 minute personal conversation with a local islander who helps make Bainbridge Island such an interesting and engaging place to live.
Bainbridge Island in the 1930’s and 40’s: A partnership with the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum Listen here as lifelong Island resident Chuck Callaham shares memories of growing up on Bainbridge, including biking, ice skating, and the early days of the Bainbridge Island Fire Department. Chuck …
In this podcast BCB host Jo Jenkins introduces us to the new Executive Director of the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum, Brianna Kosowitz. Brianna comes to the museum from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. In this interview, she describes her love of history, …
Bainbridge Island in the 1930’s and 40’s: a partnership with the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum Listen here to the first of our Bainbridge Island Oral History podcasts as Pickleball inventor Barney McCallum describes summers on Bainbridge Island in the 1930s and 40s and tells the …
Bainbridge native son and bestselling author Jonathan Evison will be launching his newest book, Lawn Boy, on Monday, April 2 from 6:30-9 at BARN. In this podcast Jonathan’s long-time friend and editor, Jim Thomsen, talks with him at length about their experiences growing up on …
Join us on Who’s on Bainbridge to hear Carla Mackey discuss her adventures hiking a segment of the Via Francigena in southern Tuscany. Talking with BCB host Bob Ross, Carla explores the history of the trail and what first drew her to undertake the adventure. …
Recently named Island Treasure Nancy Rekow is a poet, a leader of poetry workshops for over 43 years, a poetry reading organizer, an editor/consultant for various books, and co-founder of NW Trillium Press. Listen here to learn more about her life and work. Describing herself …
In this podcast, Sallie Maron, winner of Bainbridge Island’s first ever Cultural Champion award, is interviewed by Catherine Camp, Sallie’s successor as the Board Chair of Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN). Just what IS a Cultural Champion? Bainbridge Island’s new Cultural Champion award defines it …
Actor, artist, entrepreneur, philanthropist and Edge co-founder John Ellis has just been named an Island Treasure. In this podcast interview, John talks with his daughter Liz about his lifelong interest in art and theater. On the Island John is perhaps best known as co-founder (with …
If you’re worried that today’s children spend too much time on screens and too little time outside, Kevin Mills has some exciting ideas on how to reverse that trend. An industrial designer turned ‘adventure playground advocate and creator,’ Kevin Mills joins BCB host Bob Ross …
Community has always been a passion for BCB founder Barry Peters, who with his wife, Channie, will be leaving Bainbridge Island this fall to join their daughter and grandchildren in Denver, Colorado. It was that passion for Community that drove Peters, who moved to …