Email This Page to a FriendPreview: “Dick Wagner: CWB’s True North” – Caren Crandall
June 5, 2017
The Center for Wooden Boats’ navigator and true north, Founding Director Dick Wagner, passed away at home with his family on Thursday, April 20th. His was a life well lived.
Dick was one of a kind. A man of uncommon perseverance, he believed profoundly in the power of people. He helped us imagine the unimaginable, inspiring us to whole-heartedly join the effort to create something brand new. A graduate of Columbia and Yale, he was trained as an architect and thought like an urban planner. Some people change skylines. Dick changed Seattle’s waterline. He showd us how to bring to life a stark shoreline by providing public access to the water. He showed us that a living museum could have mostly moving parts, and that everyone could be engaged in learning by doing. The goal was always to get a tool, an oar, a tiller, or a mainsheet in someone’s hand, so they could feel the wood, the water, or the wind as they discovered with amazement what they could do. That was learning, that was growing, that was living.
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