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MEMBERSHIP REMINDER
For whatever reason, renewal and new memberships for 2023 are off to a VERY slow start. If we are to continue our work at the Buckner Orchard, your support is critical. Please consider using this link (click here) or writing a check this weekend to help make 2023 another successful year at the Orchard.
Many thanks for all you've done and will do!
Herb
Herb Sargo
President
Promoting the care and preservation of the Buckner homestead, orchard, and community atmosphere in perpetuity
2023 MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Truly A Touchstone!
As reported in our 2022 Annual Report were able to do many good things at the Homestead and Orchard thanks to your support, contributions, and volunteering. If we are to continue this good work, funding and volunteering must continue
The Buckner Orchard and Homestead need your support more than ever.
2022 Annual Report Link: http://bucknerhomestead.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/BHHF2022-ANNUAL-REPORT-1.pdf
A Touchstone
The Buckner Orchard is truly a touchstone to the past; to the history found here, to a simpler life and time, to a previous experience. It can be personal, enlightening, reflective. An encounter this past summer brought this home to me in a most poignant way.
I drove back to the Orchard one morning as the Stehekin Valley Adventures bus was loading to leave. Stan, the driver and guide, came quickly over to me. "Perfect timing, there's someone here you need to meet."
As I got out of the van, visitors started getting back off the bus, as a slight, older woman, assisted by two gentlemen, walked toward me from the Buzzard Cabin.
This was a "bucket list" moment for 97 year-old Gwen. Accompanied by her three children, one at least as old as I am, this was their gift to her. Gwen was a Chelan classmate and close friend of my late aunt, Hobbie Buckner. Gwen and her family had lived at High Bridge one summer long ago,and Stehekin and the Buckner Ranch remain an important part of her life. She was especially pleased to be able to share and talk with someone who had a connection to and knew those she had such fond and vivid memories of.
The rest of the tour members stood around us, quietly listening.
At some point, someone handed us a photo album. Ten pages of small black and white photos and a single, typed page, Gwen had made the album just for this visit to Stehekin - to help her children understand just how important this was to her. The photos were from 1940, many of her and Hobbie, and several that included Hobbie's sister, Bucky. Bathing in the river at High Bridge under the guise of swimming, a hikes to a lookout, and other things teenage girls would do and share. She knew the Sisters are gone, and asked about their families, the Buckner Ranch, and Stehekin.
As our visit was coming to end, she gave me a gentle hug, thanked me, and quietly confided that, surely, this would be her last visit to Stehekin.
As I mentioned, the bus was about to leave when this all began, Stan and the other visitors waited quietly and patiently for fifteen minutes or so, knowing how important this was for Gwen.
It was a moment for all of us.
The Orchard is a touchstone to the past in many different ways, as it was for Gwen. Your support of the Foundation and Orchard can help it remain so, long into the future. You can be the difference.
Herb Sargo
BHHF President
Memberships are one form of contributing funds to support the Foundation's work at the Homestead and Orchard.
RENEWALS - Quick and Convenient, renew digitally on-line (click here)
If you prefer, a check, made out to the Buckner Homestead Heritage Foundation (BHHF), should be mailed to PO Box 184, Manson, WA 98831. As a renewal, we will have your information on file. Please include your e-mail address, as this is how we receipt and communicate with members in a cost-effective manner. And, your contribution is tax deductible as allowed by the IRS.
NEW MEMBERSHIP - Download and print the membership form found at this link (click here) and mail to PO Box 184, Manson, WA 98831. Again, be sure to include your e-mail address. Or, simply use the link above for renewals for an easy on-line membership.
Individual - $25.00
Family - $50.00
Business - $75.00
Patron - $100.00
Benefactor - $250.00
Steward - $500.00
Sustainer - $1,000.00
Or, any amount you choose!
Please join us today with whatever level of membership you choose and help us assure a productive, successful, and memorable future for the Buckner Homestead. Not sure how your contribution will be used? Then, review our 2022 Financial Summary, included in the Annual Report at the link at the top of this article. All Foundation work and administration is done entirely by volunteers.
The Buckner Homestead Heritage Foundation is a not-for-profit organization created specifically to support and preserve the Buckner Homestead and Orchard in Stehekin, Washington, and is registered as such with the State of Washington and the IRS (Tax ID #452913458)
