Vashon-Maury Island: Images of America

Bruce Haulman and
Jean Cammon Findlay 

Arcadia, 2011

Vashon-Maury Island (Arcadia) by Vashon authors Bruce Haulman (Ellisport) and Jean Cammon Findlay (Newport) was published in July 2011. Organized around major themes, the book traces the evolution of the island’s history. It is a story of change:separate water-based communities to an island identity, from an extractive resource economy to a human resource economy, from thirty steamboat landings to two ferry docks, and growth from a pre-contact Native S'Homamish population of about 650 to the diverse 10,624 residents in the 2010 census.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Bruce Haulman is a retired professor of history who has lived on Vashon-Maury Island for 37 years. He is the Director of the Vashon History Project (vashonhistory.com) and on the Board of the Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Association. (vashonheritage.org)

Bruce's PhD in History is from the University of Washington. His major disciplines are Pacific Northwest History and Film History.. He is currently Director of the Green River Australia-New Zealand Study Abroad program, and works each summer with young women leaders from South Asia and North Africa in a U.S. State Department Program for Women’s Leadership and the Empowerment of Women. He directed the Clayoquot Summer Program on Vancouver Island for over ten years and has taught abroad in Australia, China, Great Britain, and New Zealand.

An avid sailor and boater, Bruce and his wife Pam enjoy cruising Puget Sound on their trawler Vashonanamed for the Mosquito Fleet steamer that served the Burton-Tacoma route in the 1920s and 1930s. Bruce is also an accomplished carver and musician.


Jean Cammon Findlay grew up on Anderson Island in south Puget Sound where her great-grandparents were homesteaders. She came to Vashon Island 50 years ago through marriage to her husband, Gilbert, and now resides here full time on his old family property.

With a bachelor’s in English from Washington State University and a master’s in education from the University of Northern Colorado, Jean is retired from a 30 year elementary school teaching career. She now devotes her time to volunteering at the Vashon-Maury Heritage Association where she is board secretary, chair of the Education Committee, and serves on the Collection and Exhibit committees. Previously, with Robin Paterson, she wrote the Arcadia book Mosquito Fleet of South Puget Sound (2008).

Her hobby is researching and writing about her family’s genealogy.

© Bruce Haulman 2011