Special to the Reporter

The Mercer Island Historical Society will present “Beneath the Surface: 45 Years of Scuba Diving into Mercer Island’s History” at 7 p.m. on Nov. 5 at the Mercer Island Community and Event Center.

Speaker Matt McCauley will focus on the Island’s history from the perspective of the relics, wrecks (navy planes, parts of the ferry Dawn) and natural features he’s discovered on the lake floor since 1979 when he began scuba diving in the waters off Mercer Island as a sophomore at the high school. This past summer, he found a milk bottle from Kristoferson’s Dairy off the north end of Luther Burbank park.

According to the Mercer Island Historical Society, “After logging much of the Island in the 1890s, the settlers claimed the land for pasture. Alfred Kristoferson bought

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