Making history: The people who shaped the San Juan Islands [excerpt]

              Making History: The People Who Shaped the San Jiian Islands     63
Life was generally relaxed at British Camp in the last years of occupation.
Archaeologists digging on a Garrison Bay site believe it was inhabited 1,300 years ago, thenwasabandonedafter500years. Later the Indians moved back and used it for a winter camp until they exhausted the shellfish.
When next I interviewed the Crook descendants the visit was unlike my earlier experience. A number of years had passed and the pair had become eccentric in old age. Mrs. Davis was in a crotchety mood and Jim was occupied with a slingshot, using it to scare his bull away from the orchard. Jim looked like a trapper by then, wearing a visored homespun hat of his own weaving. The brother and sister clung desperately to their old fort and its surroundings, rejecting all efforts to purchase it for a state park. They earned a few dollars allowing visitors to walk around the grounds.
Jim would show his relics in the living room - ten cannon balls (two of iron and the rest of wood), a broken flintlock musket, Indian tools and a cribbage board found in the blockhouse. He cared for the fort in