Town namesake Anna Curtis gazes toward Commercial Avenue as Santa Claus waves to the crowd during the 2005 Lions Club Christmas Parade on Commercial Avenue. See more photos in the Activities section under “Just looking” and “Christmas Parade I.”
Main streets and highways were bare Sunday but there was still a blanket of snow decorating the landscape. This scene was photographed from the Chamber of Commerce parking lot looking toward the New Wilson Hotel, future home of public housing.
I got this photo of city namesake Anna Curtis last week from the parking lot of the Chamber of Commerce. This is a painting of Anna Curtis, after whom city founder Amos Bowman named the community. Curtis was his wife’s maiden name. Bowman arrived on Fidalgo Island in 1876, bought 160 acres and built a […]