The Harvest Moon Bat Window Sculpture was a lighted decoration sold by Spirit Halloween for the 2008 Halloween season. It resembled an orange moon with a silhouette of three flying bats overtop it. When activated, the moon lit-up.
Haunt your house! Guests will go batty over this illuminated harvest moon light with morphing LED lights. A jet black die-cut image of three bats flutter across the orange face in spooky style. Great in the foyer or on the front porch.
Harvest Moon: My birth name was Stephanie Elaine Culty. And then on a little scribbled piece of paper, my grandfather had written down that my adult name was Harvest Moon, specifically because I was born on a full moon. And the Quinault Tribe had harvested a large amount of salmon that year. And so he scribbled Harvest Moon down on a piece of paper and gave it to a caseworker. At that time I was in foster care and in the process of being adopted into a beautiful family that had a wonderful home inWest Olympia. And I went from Stephanie Elaine Culty to Dorothy Ellen Rosina.
I think what makes up a Harvest Moon is two different people in reality. After I had children and grew up and started teaching the Native culture, and doing my artwork as a basket maker, I didn't want to hurt their feelings. I love the name Dorothy, and I love the name Stephanie, but then I realized that, you know, Harvest Moon really meant something to me. The half-moon is Dorothy, and the other half is Stephanie. You put the two halves together, and that makes the Harvest Moon.
Elaine Vradenburgh: The Third Thirty was produced by Window Seat Media. It was a collaboration between Harvest Moon, Ava McGee, who interviewed Harvest Moon, Molley Gillipsie, who photographed Harvest Moon for our website and exhibit, Benji Santos who composed music for this story, and Amanda Mackison who edited this story with me. Funding for this series was provided byThe City of Olympia, the Freas Foundation, and the Thurston County HeritageGrant program. To learn more about Window Seat Media and hear more stories, visit www.windowseatmedia.org.