Steven Djordjevich needed a good idea for his Eagle Scout project. An observation by his mother offered inspiration.
“A lot of people don’t know who William Bainbridge was,” she told him. “Some of them think he discovered this island.”
Djordjevich realized that indeed, nothing on the island described Bainbridge or his accomplishments.
Until now. This Saturday at 11 a.m., Mayor Dwight Sutton will dedicate Djordjevich’s project, a 5,000-pound concrete, river rock and marble structure with a plaque summarizing Commodore Bainbridge’s distinguished career in the U.S. Navy.

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Only a few weeks have passed since September 11, but already artist Richard Stine has tackled the difficult subject matter.
Stine swiftly reconfigured some works for a group show due to open at Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Oct. 6, “Four Walls and a Roof: The House as Image and Metaphor.”
“It’s about the people in power gobbling up the opportunity to make all these rules – I don’t want to move under the weight of someone else’s ideas of freedom,” Stine said. “We’ve got to seek out the terrorists. But we better be mindful of all the things civilizations have lost because of fear.”

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At first blush, “shabby elegance” seems to be one of those oxymorons like “jumbo shrimp” – two concepts that can’t readily co-exist.
Sisters JoAnna Geraghty and Wendy Lavachek disagree, so much so that they are basing a business on the “shabby elegant” look.
“It looks like something you inherited from your grandmother,” said Lavachek, describing the furniture and accessories on display at Ethereal, the pair’s store in the basement of Sandy’s Barber Shop on Winslow Way.

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When Marge Williams Center tenants asked Joel Sackett if he had suggestions for art to fill the center’s conference room walls, the photographer replied, “I’m already making it.”
Sackett has been shooting islanders at home for a new exhibit, “Interior Bainbridge,” which he will show at Winslow Hardware for the November Arts Walk.

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The images depict, in the crisp detail that is the photographer’s hallmark, not only the bleak camp setting – the rows of shacks ringed by treeless cliffs – but the ersatz normality of such features of camp life as church services and baseball games.
The disjunctive construct of ordinary life within the concentration camp setting is captured in prints such as “Pleasure Garden,” an image of a green and tranquil Japanese garden coaxed into being against the backdrop of Mojave desert.
It is one of 49 Ansel Adams prints in an exhibit depicting Manzanar – the camp where Bainbridge residents of Japanese descent were interned during World War II – that opens next week at the Bainbridge Historical Museum.

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The “high school road” won’t necessarily get you there, and the library’s Zen garden isn’t very.
Changes were plenty for motorists and pedestrians alike Monday, as the first day of an expected three-week closure went into effect at the busy intersection of Madison/High School.
Drivers to and from the ferry and downtown Winslow were forced to adjust to detours that, by virtue of the few alternative routes at hand, took them miles out of their way.
“It’s a huge ‘block,’” conceded Randy Witt, director of public works for the city.
With an array of lumbering and noisy equipment, Ace Paving crews got started on the island’s new traffic roundabout, the first phase of a $1.513 million reconstruction of High School Road, from Madison west to Sportsman Club Road.

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