Catalina Island Museum website<\/a> right now, you\u2019d see postings for the poignant\u2014Gayle Garner Roski’s watercolors of her deepwater dive to the remains of the Titanic sharing space\u2014with the pleasant, Charles Phoenix\u2019s upcoming, April 10 presentation of his \u201cCatalinaland” slide show. There is an ongoing exhibition dealing with the island\u2019s history mixed with sculptor Elizabeth Turk\u2019s \u201cTipping Point,\u201d which addresses animal extinction and the fate of the planet.<\/p>\nAll in all, it\u2019s a lineup the museum has always tried to hold to: presenting something for everyone and mood, whether they be islanders or visitors.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of those things, you know, you do your best to serve the community,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard enough to compete with the beach, so you\u2019re always trying to make a connection with someone, whether it be through art, history or something fun. And you have to do it keeping in mind you have some very different people who come here, you have the people who arrive on a boat that day and the people who live here year-round.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lee and her family\u2014husband David Michael Lee, son Alistar and daughter Anzonette\u2014have lived full-time on the island for nearly five years. She says they have all \u201cfallen in love,\u201d with the island and, besides the museum, what she will miss most is \u201cseeing the stars clearly every night.\u201d<\/p>\n
That and the golf carts. Seriously.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love the golf cart life!\u201d Lee said. \u201cI wish I could drive a golf cart the rest of my life. Just toodle around town, fun and zippy. You see, you have to understand, it\u2019s just not the golf cart, it\u2019s all the other things that go along with it: no traffic, no stoplights. I\u2019m going to miss that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone who\u2019s been to Laguna on a weekend knows that the city has plenty of traffic and stoplights. Of course, it also has a museum with a sterling reputation and lots of history. Laguna, is in fact, the second oldest art museum in the state and the only one to feature exclusively California content. That combination of art and history was a mix that Lee found she couldn\u2019t turn down.<\/p>\n
Plus, the move is a return home for Lee who was raised in Costa Mesa and Irvine, went to college at Cal State Fullerton and worked at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana before relocating to Catalina.<\/p>\n
Though she says she \u201ccan\u2019t wait to see what\u2019s ahead,\u201d in Laguna, her excitement can\u2019t be any greater than her husband’s, who, for the past four years, has been commuting to his teaching job in Orange County.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, my husband really has been the hero in all of this.\u201d<\/p>\n
As excited as she is for the future, Lee says there is no doubt her family will return to the island. As will her memory and pride.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always hard to leave a place you love.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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