by Laurie Bevan Stewart (Author)
This is a beautifully written tribute to an incredibly special and generous man.
- Emma Amiad
Founding president,
Vashon Maury Island Audubon Society
Fisher Pond remains one of the most generous and precious of gifts to our community. The Vashon Land Trust is honored to steward it. Laurie Stewart's book is a wonderful reminder of Bill's philosophy--that Nature knows what she's doing.
- Tom Dean
Executive Director, Vashon-Maury Land Trust
Laurie Stewart has woven a warm, delightful, surprising portrait of Bill Fisher from shared memories of friends and neighbors, revealing a private person with a great capacity for observing, loving, and stewarding his pond and its surrounds. Bill gave the community his beautiful pond. Laurie's gentle descriptions and exquisitely remembered moments offer us a new gift: glimpses of the unusual man himself and his particular stewardship ethic.
- Rayna Holtz
Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum, co-curator
Vashon Island's Native People: Navigating Seas of Change
King County Library System, librarian, ret.