by LACanby | Sep 25, 2018 | Blog
JOIN US for a fun FUNDRAISER that’s sure to raise your local history IQ — our South Whidbey history bus tour and wine tasting event on Sunday, October 14 from 1 to 5 p.m.. We’ll meet at the South Whidbey Community Center in Langley (the former...
by LACanby | Jul 18, 2018 | Blog
The South Whidbey Historical Society is staffing the parking lot opposite the Fairgrounds for the Whidbey Island Area Fair running this Thursday, July 19 through Sunday, July 22. When you park in the SWHS lot, you help to support the efforts of your local Historical...
by LACanby | May 30, 2018 | Blog
Our summer schedule begin this Friday at the South Whidbey Historical Museum. Stop by and see us between 1 and 4 p.m. The Museum will now be open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays between 1 and 4 p.m. until Labor Day weekend.
by LACanby | May 30, 2018 | Blog
In 1939 Clinton resident Bill Hunziker brought his 8 mm camera and met up with his Everett High School classmates for the Memorial Day parade in Everett. Three months later Nazi Germany would invade Poland and conquer most of Europe. Two and a half years later...
by LACanby | May 30, 2018 | Blog, Notable People, Videos
If you want to know what life was like on South Whidbey in the 1920s and ’30s, then watch this excerpt of an interview that Bill Steiner did in 1981 of his neighbors, Leon and Marie Burley, of Maxwelton. Leon’s parents moved from Nebraska to the...
