![]() ![]() The McNeil Island Historical Society was chartered in 2010 shortly after the closing of the prison for the purpose of educating the public about, and preserving, the rich history of McNeil Island. A detention center for violent sexual offenders remains on the island. ![]() In November 2010, the state announced closure plans for 2011, saving $14 million. It was the last remaining island prison in the country to be accessible only by air and sea. It was turned over to the Washington State Department of Corrections and became the McNeil Island Corrections Center, until it closed in 2011. The island has been owned by the government for most of its history it was the location of a federal penitentiary for over a century, from 1875 to 1981. The Washington mainland lies to the east, across the south basin of Puget Sound. With a land area of 6.63 square miles (17.2 km 2), it lies just north of Anderson Island Fox Island is to the north, across Carr Inlet, and to the west, separated from Key Peninsula by Pitt Passage. McNeil Island is an island in the northwest United States in south Puget Sound, located southwest of Tacoma, Washington. Beaton lives in Cape Breton with her family.Class=notpageimage| Location in Washington She has also published the picture books King Baby and The Princess and the Pony. ![]() The collections of her landmark strip Hark! A Vagrant and Step Aside, Pops each spent several months on the New York Times graphic novel bestseller list, as well as appearing on best of the year lists from Time, The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR Books, and winning the Eisner, Ignatz, Harvey, and Doug Wright Awards. During the years she spent out West, Beaton began creating webcomics under the name Hark! A Vagrant, quickly drawing a substantial following around the world. After graduating from Mount Allison University with a double degree in History and Anthropology, she moved to Alberta in search of work that would allow her to pay down her student loans. Register for this author talk and check out other author talks here: Ībout the Author: Kate Beaton was born and raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is more than a memoir, it’s also an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its egalitarian ethos and natural beauty while simultaneously exploiting both the riches of its land and the humanity of its people. Her wounds may never heal.īeaton’s natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime Albertan backdrop of wildlife, Northern Lights, and Rocky Mountains. She encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet never discussed. It does not hit home until she moves to a spartan, isolated worksite for higher pay. Being one of the few women among thousands of men, the culture shock is palpable. With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, what the journey will actually cost Beaton will be far more than she anticipates.Īrriving in Fort McMurray, Beaton finds work in the lucrative camps owned and operated by the world’s largest oil companies. Her first full-length graphic narrative follows Beaton after university as she heads out west to take advantage of Alberta’s oil rush, part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Join us for an enlightening hour online with highly-acclaimed Kate Beaton, the New York Times bestselling author of " Hark! A Vagrant!" and " Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands".īefore there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant! fame, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beatons, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs.
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