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at the Camano City Schoolhouse
Our Mission
Our mission is to collect, organize, preserve, and make accessible any historical materials pertaining to Camano Island and the people, places, events, and organizations therein.
Our Collection
Our collection is made up of photographs, letters, documents, newspapers, and books about Camano's history. Our digitized collection can be found here, but we have more items for perusal in the archive itself.
Kate Hovda
Archivist with a Mission
The Camano City Schoolhouse Archive began in 2022 thanks to the very capable and talented archivist Kate Hovda. Kate joined the team at the schoolhouse as a master’s student from the University of Washington Information School. Creation of the archive became Kate’s capstone project for her Master of Library Science degree. It allowed Kate to utilize her academic training in a real world setting. That result has greatly benefited the schoolhouse in its ongoing efforts to build collections of historic materials related to Camano Island.
Kate is no stranger to archives, having worked as an archival intern at Knox College in Illinois where she got her Bachelor of Arts degree in Design and Visual Communications. She continues to handle a full workload while volunteering at the schoolhouse. She currently works as a records manager at ASRC, a Native Alaskan non-profit corporation working with the federal government on energy issues benefiting the Iñupiaq people.
Kate’s self-motivated personality, solid academic and professional background and intuitive intellectual curiosity continue to provide great promise to the schoolhouse archives and its mission moving forward. We hope anyone interested will pay a visit and see what Kate and the archives are doing. It is open to the public the second Saturday of every month from 1-4 p.m. Easy access is through the back door of the schoolhouse on the south side of the building. Kate would be happy to greet you.
