Caitlin Hicks, Playwright and performer, (web site) has been a Sunshine Coast local since 1991. In the early nineties, she wrote a weekly column for The Coast News called Mountains of Things.

She has researched, written and performed one-person shows (Stories from the Pacific Northwest: Read Island Santa Claus and The Christmas Monster of Ripple Rock) about historical characters on the coast. The [Pender Harbour Women's Connection]? asked her to come up to Pender Harbour to do a show and she agreed. The notes she made for these productions may be in the museum.

hickshalloran@onelink.ca

She wrote "The Life We Lived" and performed it at the Rockwood for several summers: stories of all three areas, north shore (Pender Harbour) Gibsons, Sechelt.

She did another show at the Heritage Playhouse, expanded to include stories of the war, and the Japanese internment, their story was told for the first time since they returned, daughter read, all her performances try to involve people.

She gave the first script to the museum, would like to be consulted if they use it electronically. She also has a couple of other scripts, maybe other stuff that she would be willing to donate. Permission: people gave her permission to use their stories, she doesn't consider she has copyright.

The stories are told in a way that is entertaining.

She also interviewed some schoolteachers, someone else who worked on the atomic bomb.

She has done the stories in little segments that can be mixed up, adds local music to make an engaging performance...

She also has a collection of stories [Charles Stevens]? typed out meticulously in a grey binder, his memoirs. Nobody knows who is is.

She has also created a story tapes "Stories for a Winter Solstice".