This kinetic toy theater is up until October 9th at Pritchard Island Beach Park in Rainier Beach, Seattle.
 
This piece has two movements - The first is operated by a foot treadle depicts the lowering of Lake Washington in 1917 when the Ship Canal at the Ballard Locks went in and the lake lowered 9 feet.  This engineered event turned Pritchard Island into a marshland instead of an island.  The second movement is a hand spun disc that shows different dwellings that have been on the island through time. The island was called Tleelh-chus (or little Island) when the Duwamish had a small village there. At the begining of the 1900's Alfred J Pritchard bought land on the island with gold rush money and built a series of houses there, at the time it was accessed by a row boat. Today the little one street community has houses built after the island became part of Rainer Beach geographically when the lake lowered, to get to it you bisect a marshland that connects Pritchard Island Beach park to Beer Shiva park.