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Currently “playing” at the Anacortes Museum is a display titled “Colorful Characters & Local Lore.” It’s a must-see. The museum, located at 1305 8th Street in a former Carnegie Library, is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (closed Wednesday) and 1-4 p.m. on Sunday.

A major “draw” at Chamber of Commerce functions is the opportunity to build relationships and enjoy those already established. Even when the program is serious, such as this week’s “State of the City” report by Mayor Dean Maxwell, there are inevitably “lighter side” moments. Pictured here responding to Mayor Maxwell’s hints at youthful antics are […]

Fall leaves provide a seasonal backdrop for the small fountain statue just outside the entrance to Anacortes Historical Museum.

Volunteers “crowned the clock” on Commercial Avenue Wednesday, July 2. The J.C. Leadbetter clock is located on the sidewalk in front of the Brown Lantern. An ornate, custom-made crown was placed as a seven-year project came to an end. Support came from the Anacortes Museum Foundation and the Anacortes Noon Kiwanis Club.

Seven years of work culminated Wednesday morning with the “crowning” of a J.C. Leadbetter street clock on Commercial Avenue in front of the Brown Lantern Tavern. Addition of the brass finial was the dream of former museum director Gary Cline, but it took lots of partners to make the dream a reality. Tom Thompson, President […]

I had read about the “miracle staircase,” and on a recent visit to New Mexico I had the privilege of seeing it firsthand. This 20-foot staircase, originally without siderails, makes two complete 360-degree turns. It has no center support, resting solely on its own base and against the choir loft of the Loretto Chapel. The […]

Retired Anacortes Museum Director Garry Cline was among a handful of people who gathered Thursday morning to acknowledge completion of an interpretive project at the Guemes Island Ferry parking area. The location on 6th Street is the one-time home of Apex Cannery. Cline and others at the museum played a key role in assisting Skagit […]

I got a big kick out of this clever effort on someone’s part to put a Christmas spin on the Wallie Funk photo display at the Anacortes Museum. Someone tacked a Santa hat onto the photo cutout of a young Wallie Funk performing publisher/editor duties at the Anacortes American in the 1950s. Funk, now retired, […]

Among highlights of the annual meeting of the Anacortes Museum Foundation Friday night was acknowledgement of Laura Wynn (center) as Volunteer of the Year. The presentation was made by Museum Director Garry Cline. Mayor Dean Maxwell extended thanks to all museum supporters, noting dramatic achievements in the past 15 or 20 years. He credited Cline […]

Class reunions and “mini-reunions” among old friends were part of the Centennial celebration of Anacortes High School last weekend. Pictured here are Sandi Kertis Ross (left) and Linda Scoggins Sinclair, classmates from the AHS Class of 1960. AHS alum Bret Lunsford has launched an ambitious project, collecting photographs from elementary school classes for a display […]

It was a homecoming of sorts last week when Marie Jacobsen and Karen Williams (center) attended the grand opening of The Bank of the Pacific at 801 Commercial Avenue. The bank is located in a building originally built as a movie theater, and these women worked as ushers when they were young. As evidence by […]

Beautiful red rhododendron blossoms serve as a backdrop to Guemes artist Philip McCracken’s sculpture outside the Anacortes Post Office on Commercial Avenue. According to the Museum of Northwest Art in LaConner McCracken, a third generation member of a Skagit Valley family, was born in Bellingham in 1928. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree […]