San Juan Island’s Lee Brewer is a man of action, a quintessential Renaissance man, and perhaps the last person on the planet that one would expect to find living vicariously through the achievements of others. Unless, that is, a family member is in a race for Olympic gold.
Emily is the daughter of Dana and Greg Howell of Ketchum, Idaho, and Ian, a graduate of Friday Harbor High School, Class of ‘99, is the son of Marty Robinson and Tim Thomsen of San Juan Island.
The clockwise boats made good progress until they reached always troublesome Wasp Passage, where some difficulty was encountered but our sailors persevered.
Saturday’s Founder’s Day salute marks the first time that a howitzer has been fired at American Camp since all cannon were ordered removed in November, 1859, as part of the agreement of the joint military occupation of the island by the U.S. Army and the British Royal Marines, from March 1860 to November 1872.
Historian Lorraine McConaghy’s most recent book, “New Land, North of the Columbia”, features nearly 400 documents, including a telegram to Washington territory’s governor signed by Abraham Lincoln, the rough draft of Theodore Roethke’s “The Rose,” and a NASA map of Washington, shot by Landsat satellites.
Purple Haze? You bet. Guitarist Carl Blake and company return to the San Juan Community Theatre spotlight Saturday, Aug. 25, breathing life back into the man and the music that turned pop music on its head 40-plus years ago.
Kate Schuman and Keith Busha revive their 2009 sold-out show with encore tribute to country artist Patsy Cline, featuring hits like “Crazy”, “I Fall to Pieces” and “Sweet Dreams”, Thursday, Aug. 23, as part of San Juan Community Theatre’s Summer Concert Series.
Learn all about the fascinating life of the Pacific Albatross with UC Santa Cruz’s Breck Tyler, a visiting professor at Friday Harbor Labs, in the next edition of The Whale Museum’s Research Lecture Series, Wednesday, at 7 p.m.
From his hometown of Portland, Ore., Jones has been spinning straw into musical gold for the better part of 30 years. He and his band, The Lloyd Jones Struggle, first lit up the Main Stage of the San Juan County Fair back in 2001, another gig in which those in that audience may recall “worked out” pretty darn fantastically, too.
A San Juan County Fair favorite, the Fairly Outrageous Trashion Fashion Show tops the bill on the Main Stage entertainment schedule, Wednesday, opening day of the Fair; 8 p.m.
Recycling questions will be answered by the lineup of Master Composters at the trash and recycling stations; composting questions will be addressed at the Ag Tent or at the produce area. The goal: a Zero Waste future for San Juan County.
The mission of the Arts Council is to promote and integrate artistic resources of the county for the creative economic development, education and overall well-being of the county’s communities.
The musical torch bearers of a generation and its cherished hits, anthems and sometimes forgotten numbers, include Daniel Finn, Ian Boulton, Debbie Nash-Strasser, Ian Byington, Steve Keys, Gretchen Gubelman and Beau Borrero, Kate Schuman and Keith Busha.