After clearing the harbor most of the fleet picked up the southeast 8-knot wind on a port tack and headed counterclockwise for Upright Channel. Only three boats chose to sail clockwise on a run up San Juan Channel. The counterclockwise boats made good progress until they reached Harney Channel, at which time the winds calmed and stalled the turn at Hankin Point.
It’s a dizzying lineup of demonstrations, talks and presentations at the 2013 County Fair Agricultural Tent. Check out the daily schedule below
Did Custer dither at the river? Was he incapacitated or dead before ever reaching Last Stand Hill? Come hear the testimony assembled by historian and author Bruce Brown of Native Americans and survivors of the Battle of Little Bighorn and decide for yourself, Saturday, Aug. 17.
San Juan Island’s Bob Wilson, of San Juan Surveying, was interviewed for POB’s July 2013 edition of “Solo Notes”, a series that focuses on small business owners in the land surveying profession.
San Juan County’s Fairly Outrageous Trashion Fashion Show, heartwarming, homespun, inspired and somewhat absurd, and most appropriately named, is just such an event.
Historian traces mingling of cultures, what military men left behind on the western frontier
A self-taught vocalist, Seattle’s Greta Matassa, has released eight CDs over the course of her career
Hey, art lovers… just two hours of your time is all it would take to lend a helping hand at the Fine Arts Exhibit at the county fair.
It’s been about five weeks or so since a massive sixgill shark — a 12-foot long female — washed up on the beach at Argyle Lagoon. If you’ve been wondering what that was all about, well, The Whale Museum just may be the place to find some answers.
A Fulbright Scholar, DeBoer, daughter of Kerry and Beth Anderson of Friday Harbor, teaches fourth grade at Whitney Elementary School in Yakima, Wash., where she and husband Josh DeBoer make their home.
Where we’ve been, where we’re headed and, most importantly, how we can change… the state of the global environment revealed in this documentary narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.
The 7th annual Concours d’Elegance is Sunday, Aug. 25, on the grounds of San Juan Island Vineyards.
For the past 20 years the former music teacher turned storyteller has toured the Pacific Northwest, as well as other parts of the country, as the star of a one-woman “living history’ program.