by LACanby | Jul 17, 2021 | Blog, What's New Posts, What's New Posts
The Whidbey Island Fair runs Thursday through Sunday.Help support the South Whidbey Historical Society and Museum by using our parking lot directly across from the Fair next to the Fire Station.The McLeod Cabin, Brooks Hill Cabin and the Ray Gabelein Antique Farm...
by James Canby | Jul 3, 2021 | 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. ...
by James Canby | Jun 11, 2021 | Uncategorized, What's New Posts, What's New Posts
Fair Friday… Swante Kyllonen was born in 1893 on South Whidbey, the eldest child of 17 born to a Finnish immigrant couple, Herman and Finna Kyllonen. They settled on a 160-acre farm on Kyllonen Hill at what is now the Chinook Lands and Whidbey Institute....
by LACanby | Jun 10, 2021 | What's New Posts, What's New Posts
Throwback Thursday comes from the 1960 Island County Fair. This was a Baby Island Heights entry in the Kiddie Parade. Mayor: Glenn Metcalf, Official Booster: Barbara Long, Sheriff: Candace Christenson, Country Cousin: Rae Jean Malary; Water Commissioner: David Long,...
