by Laura Canby | Mar 6, 2018 | Blog
(Excerpted from “Baker’s Corner – Early Days on Whidbey Island” by John Baker.) The Pope and Talbot logging camp on Holmes Harbor was described in the previous post about schoolteacher Julia Mackie. “According to Austin (Deke*) Marshall, who worked in the Classic...
by Laura Canby | Mar 6, 2018 | Blog, Notable People, SW People & Families
Think you have a tough commute? Consider the weekly one Miss Julia Mackie had in 1914.After graduating high school in Everett, Julia was hired as a teacher in a logging camp near present day Honeymoon Bay.It was a large Pope and Talbot logging camp (later named the...
by LACanby | Mar 1, 2018 | Blog
Did you know that South Whidbey had several canneries which processed everything from salmon to apricots? Here’s a write-up from the August 27, 1963 Seattle Times by reporter Marshall Wilson. FREELAND, Whidbey Island, Aug. 27.- Jay C. Fordham, who has yet to...
by LACanby | Feb 23, 2018 | Blog, Events
Stop by and see us at the Museum this weekend as we re-open for Mystery Weekend with extended hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. We have one of the clues! The Museum will then be open weekends from 1 to 4 p.m. the rest of the season....
by LACanby | Feb 7, 2018 | Blog, Events, News & Events
SAVE THE DATE: Wednesday, FEBRUARY 21 at 7 p.m. at the Langley United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall for a historical talk: “Facts and Stories of the Raymond Gabelein Family.” Several family members will focus on the path the Gabelein family took from Germany...
by LACanby | Feb 4, 2018 | Blog, Featured People, Notable People, What's New Posts, What's New Posts
Found this fascinating article in our archives about Omer Porter, which was written by John Watkins and which appeared in the South Whidbey Record on October 7, 1980. It gives a glimpse into what life was like on South Whidbey around the turn of the last century....
