George Nordby
George Nordby Talks Turkey
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George Nordby (WSU 1966) shares stories with Karen Russell about his childhood spent on Marrowstone Island, where his father, George, was the uncontested champion turkey grower. A thriving local industry now little-known to today's residents, in the fifties, farmers on the island grew, slaughtered, and shipped thousands of turkeys to markets in the Pacific Northwest. George recounts the many challenges of getting birds ready for market before the days of refrigeration. He is shown holding one of the trophies presented to his father by the Jefferson County Fair Association for the "Best Display Poultry by One Exhibitor." One of the pictures he supplied for the Historical Project archival filming has the prize-winning bird standing next to the trophy, three times as tall! Among many other tales, he tells of his father winning a car in the 1938 Port Angeles Salmon Fishing Derby.
