by James Canby | Aug 6, 2021 | Blog, What's New Posts, What's New Posts
This article was from our recent Then and Now newsletter…Corydon and Ella (Hart) Melendy moved from South Dakota just three years into their marriage. Ella’s sister had moved to South Whidbey in 1896 and taught school in a one-room log schoolhouse (possibly the...
by James Canby | Aug 5, 2021 | Blog, Notable People, What's New Posts, What's New Posts
Virgil Auvil was born in 1896 in Auviltown, West Virginia, the eldest of 10 children. His father, Wayne, was a farmer who ventured west after his father died in 1909. He worked on farms in Snohomish County.After serving in WWI , Virgil and his brother, Ray, became...
by James Canby | Jul 3, 2021 | Blog, What's New Posts, What's New Posts
Whidbey Island has always been a paradise… from the indigenous tribes who lived here year ’round or came for summer fishing and clamming, to early settlers to present day new residents. Check out these land prices in a 1910 advertisement in the publication...
by James Canby | Jun 21, 2021 | What's New Posts, What's New Posts
Can you identify these locals who participated in the Island County Fairs of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s? Answers tomorrow, but let’s see who you can identify. … And the answers are: Gary Gabelein and horse ‘Centaur’s Lucky Boy’ in...
by James Canby | Jun 14, 2021 | What's New Posts, What's New Posts
From contortionists to knife-throwers to jugglers, bobby-sox accordionists to chimpanzees to ballerinas, the Island County Fairs in the 1950s had a variety of entertaining acts. ...
