Happy When Curious
My name is Brady Ryan and I am a sea salt farmer on San Juan Island in Washington State. Ever since I was a child I have felt like my main skill was not that I was smarter or stronger or harder working or braver than anyone else, I was just a little more curious than the average cat. Since becoming a parent and trying to be a good husband and small business owner have taken so much of my energy and attention, I feel like this one superpower I have has fallen by the wayside. This podcast is my attempt to rediscover curiosity through conversation and contemplation. I will be alternating conversations with guests one episode with a short musing of my own the next. The musing episodes will allow me to try to explore ideas that I've heard or that I've come up with in an open ended way. My theory is that exploration is worth much more than answers and hopefully the interviews and the musings can live up to that principle.
Happy When Curious
Mike Vouri: The Almost War and History about Home
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Brady Ryan
Mike Vouri is an author and historian and and chief of interpretation and historian for the San Juan Island National Historical park for years before he retired. He has written 3 books about the Pig War and co-written two books about San Juan Island. The new edition of his book “The Pig War: Standoff at Griffin Bay” was released by WSU in April.
I invited Mike on because not only is he just an interesting guy with an interesting story, he probably knows more about the history of the San Juan Islands than anyone else on earth, and specifically the story of the almost war between Great Britain and the United States over the boundary line between their two countries in the 1860's and what lessons that moment has for us now.
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