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Seasonal opening of Orcas Island Historical Museum

By Community|2026-03-06T11:52:54-08:00March 7th, 2026|0 Comments

Step aside, Olga Red Gravenstein! The next generation of unique Orcas Island apples is ready for takeoff!

By Community|2025-12-04T15:37:10-08:00December 4th, 2025|Comments Off

County recognizes Native American Heritage Month w/ proclamation & affirms tribal engagement efforts

By Community|2025-11-18T13:31:29-08:00November 18th, 2025|Comments Off

Council re-introduces Historic Preservation Grants program | Applications now open

By Community|2025-11-01T17:06:05-07:00November 2nd, 2025|Comments Off

Check out this unique blend of literature and lore about the San Juan Islands

By Community|2025-09-25T13:38:35-07:00September 25th, 2025|Comments Off

County seeks volunteers to review new cultural access material

By Community|2025-09-04T12:21:42-07:00September 4th, 2025|Comments Off

Orcas Island Community Band | A history of community

By Community|2025-08-29T15:52:32-07:00August 28th, 2025|Comments Off

Getting ready for Library Fair

By Community|2025-08-01T10:59:18-07:00August 1st, 2025|Comments Off

Spirit of Peace Celebration

By Nik Schulz|2025-06-12T16:16:05-07:00June 12th, 2025|Comments Off

YMCA Camp Orkila celebrates ribbon cutting for Robinson Education Center and Orca whale sculpture

By News Source|2025-05-27T17:13:01-07:00May 27th, 2025|Comments Off

Historic Washington Elwha ferry sold for $100K, will be repurposed into floating office

By News Source|2025-02-02T19:49:28-08:00February 3rd, 2025|Comments Off

Indigenous art exhibit at Banner Bank

By Community|2024-11-27T12:02:46-08:00November 27th, 2024|Comments Off

Holiday tree sale and “Wooly Winter Pop Up” at Lum Farm

By Community|2024-11-22T12:27:30-08:00November 23rd, 2024|Comments Off

WSF fix is top priority for national transportation unions

By News Source|2024-11-22T16:59:22-08:00November 23rd, 2024|Comments Off

Community traditions

By Community|2024-11-22T16:48:43-08:00November 22nd, 2024|Comments Off

Port Meeting

By Community|2024-11-22T15:05:08-08:00November 22nd, 2024|Comments Off

WSF Weekly Report | Thanksgiving; winter schedules; Amazon deliveries to San Juans

By News Source|2024-11-21T15:21:12-08:00November 22nd, 2024|Comments Off

County recognizes Native American Heritage Month with proclamation, new tribal engagement framework

By News Source|2024-11-21T15:28:56-08:00November 21st, 2024|Comments Off

Plan ahead for Thanksgiving holiday ferry travel

By News Source|2024-11-21T14:29:02-08:00November 21st, 2024|Comments Off

Larsen and Kim | U.S. involvement in NATO Innovation Fund will strengthen NATO defense and security

By News Source|2024-11-21T12:33:34-08:00November 21st, 2024|Comments Off

High winds may impact ferry service Friday, Nov. 22

By News Source|2024-11-21T12:47:42-08:00November 21st, 2024|Comments Off

Letter to Editor | Thank you and congrats

By Community|2024-11-21T12:03:51-08:00November 21st, 2024|Comments Off

Guests Opion | Public lands, a question of values

By Community|2024-10-26T12:06:56-07:00October 26th, 2024|2 Comments

Fall History Happy Hour

By Community|2024-09-07T12:24:05-07:00September 8th, 2024|Comments Off

Open letter to community from Chief vanSchaick

By Community|2024-06-28T13:55:08-07:00June 26th, 2024|Comments Off

Boyd Pratt debuts new book that features our Pig War and more

By Community|2024-05-09T12:38:32-07:00May 9th, 2024|Comments Off

Additional acreage next to Madrona Point to be returned to Lummi Nation

By News Source|2024-04-06T15:55:00-07:00April 6th, 2024|4 Comments

Exterior preservation of museum’s historic log buildings underway

By Community|2024-02-09T14:18:32-08:00February 9th, 2024|2 Comments

Student Stories: Washington State History as a graduation requirement

By News Source|2023-12-30T19:22:30-08:00December 31st, 2023|1 Comment

Native and state leaders push for K-12 schools to fully implement tribal history curriculum

By News Source|2023-12-30T13:52:08-08:00December 30th, 2023|Comments Off

Santa still sailing in with holiday joy to the Pacific Northwest after all these years

By Community|2023-12-01T19:49:32-08:00December 2nd, 2023|1 Comment

Open House on Saturday at Eastsound Museum

By Community|2023-11-30T14:16:31-08:00November 30th, 2023|Comments Off

Entire island profits from car raffle: Driving the future to celebrate the past

By Community|2023-07-29T14:00:35-07:00July 29th, 2023|3 Comments

Native Canoe Journey is happening on Wednesday. See you there!

By Community|2023-05-19T11:05:44-07:00May 19th, 2023|Comments Off

SJC honors Lucinda Elizabeth Stewart Boyce’s legacy of care with community health van

By Community|2023-03-11T15:38:38-08:00March 12th, 2023|Comments Off

Library, Museum team up to bring Whis-stem-men-knee to speak

By Community|2022-11-30T12:42:59-08:00November 30th, 2022|1 Comment

San Juan County recognizes the cultural heritage that helped shape our islands

By Community|2022-11-25T14:14:12-08:00November 25th, 2022|1 Comment

San Juan Island National Historical Park celebrates 150 years of peace today

By Community|2022-10-21T16:21:55-07:00October 21st, 2022|Comments Off

A San Juan Island waterway honors a native county commissioner and his descendants

By Community|2022-10-05T15:28:00-07:00October 5th, 2022|Comments Off

Museum’s Bison Antiquus exhibit will open to public July 28

By Community|2022-07-26T13:40:05-07:00July 26th, 2022|2 Comments

Encampment, living history weekend, returns to San Juan Island NHP

By Community|2022-07-14T13:28:29-07:00July 14th, 2022|Comments Off

San Juan Island National Historical Park opens new visitor center

By Community|2022-06-25T13:14:04-07:00June 25th, 2022|Comments Off

The Olga Store is coming back to life

By Community|2022-06-08T12:22:25-07:00June 8th, 2022|Comments Off

American Camp Visitor Center parking lot to close for exhibit installation

By Community|2022-06-03T15:41:47-07:00June 3rd, 2022|Comments Off

Council seeks proposals for historic programs, preservation

By Community|2022-06-02T14:20:52-07:00June 2nd, 2022|Comments Off

Experience Lime Kiln history with friends of Lime Kiln society (FOLKS)

By Community|2022-05-02T12:44:46-07:00May 2nd, 2022|Comments Off

Let’s celebrate our history this May

By Community|2022-03-26T13:02:35-07:00March 26th, 2022|Comments Off

It’s finally time to celebrate history again, in person

By Community|2022-03-13T15:08:20-07:00March 15th, 2022|Comments Off

Rolf Eriksen pens new book detailing history of Mt. Constitution’s tower

By Community|2022-01-01T16:33:25-08:00January 2nd, 2022|1 Comment

Long-time island doctor looks ahead to retirement, exploration of the world

By Lin McNulty|2021-09-14T14:58:53-07:00September 14th, 2021|7 Comments

Firefighters union announces ‘Vote of No Confidence’ in Fire Chief Williams

By Community|2021-09-15T11:05:22-07:00September 14th, 2021|12 Comments

Join JP and the OK Rhythm Boys as they close Moran Centennial music series

By Community|2021-08-31T11:35:24-07:00August 28th, 2021|Comments Off

Historic map exhibit opening soon at Orcas Museum

By Community|2021-08-26T12:34:17-07:00August 27th, 2021|Comments Off

You’re not too late, but Museum’s WOWZA raffle will end Sept. 4

By Community|2021-08-24T14:32:56-07:00August 24th, 2021|Comments Off

Let’s celebrate Moran centennial with musical ‘weapons of mass delight’

By Community|2021-08-23T11:44:14-07:00August 23rd, 2021|Comments Off

Find your totem… What Southern Resident Orca arrived in the San Juans the same year you did?

By News Source|2021-06-21T10:34:10-07:00June 21st, 2021|Comments Off

Next Meeting of the Minds will explore Civilian Conservation Corps in Moran Park

By Community|2021-06-10T12:20:52-07:00June 10th, 2021|Comments Off

Join in this online workshop to learn about writing historical fiction

By Community|2021-05-26T10:55:31-07:00May 26th, 2021|Comments Off

A new experience, three years in the making, awaits you at the ferry landing

By Community|2021-05-24T14:32:38-07:00May 24th, 2021|4 Comments

Museum puts out a call for surveyor, navigator tools for upcoming exhibition

By Community|2021-05-15T13:05:10-07:00May 15th, 2021|Comments Off

Enroute to DC, Lummi totem pole makes a stop at Madrona Point

By Community|2021-05-14T17:21:48-07:00May 13th, 2021|3 Comments

Genealogy Club will share stories of days past on Orcas Island in special meeting

By Community|2021-05-10T13:03:46-07:00May 11th, 2021|Comments Off

Next Meeting of the Minds | Rediscovered fruit: Conserving the islands’ ancient food forests

By Community|2021-04-15T12:02:08-07:00April 17th, 2021|Comments Off

PBS to feature Orcas Island’s “Bison antiquus” in upcoming episode

By Community|2021-01-04T12:49:28-08:00January 4th, 2021|2 Comments

Museum at Home: Island neighbors helping neighbors in the early homesteading period

By Lin McNulty|2020-06-18T10:37:16-07:00June 18th, 2020|Comments Off

CWR founder recalls his first encounter with Granny (J2)

By Lin McNulty|2020-06-06T18:14:04-07:00June 8th, 2020|Comments Off

Results available for Madrona Voices community survey

By Lin McNulty|2020-06-04T15:44:04-07:00June 5th, 2020|Comments Off

Marshall Strawberries are back with sweet gusto on Orcas

By Lin McNulty|2020-05-20T13:32:24-07:00May 20th, 2020|5 Comments

Historical Museums thank Orcas Food Co-op

By Lin McNulty|2020-05-11T16:54:03-07:00May 12th, 2020|Comments Off

Reflections on an unusual Saturday on Orcas Island

By Community|2020-03-29T12:53:10-07:00March 29th, 2020|2 Comments

Museums’ History Matinee features book talk with Boyd Pratt

By Lin McNulty|2020-02-21T12:07:32-08:00February 21st, 2020|Comments Off

State seeks nominations for outstanding achievements in historic preservation

By Lin McNulty|2020-01-17T10:36:40-08:00January 17th, 2020|Comments Off

Orcasional Musings | The Peacock

By Lin McNulty|2020-12-06T12:43:30-08:00December 14th, 2019|2 Comments

Next Meeting of the Minds topic to be Mt. Constitution tower

By Lin McNulty|2019-12-02T15:19:59-08:00December 3rd, 2019|Comments Off

Orcasional Musings | Golf ? Estates? What about that?

By Steve Henigson|2020-12-06T12:43:32-08:00November 30th, 2019|Comments Off

Olga Store grant nearly matched; offer to be made soon

By Lin McNulty|2019-11-20T13:15:43-08:00November 20th, 2019|1 Comment

Eastsound, West Sound, all around the…island?

By Steve Henigson|2020-12-06T12:44:35-08:00November 9th, 2019|7 Comments

Orcasional Musings | Birds and squirrels…and deer, oh, my!

By Steve Henigson|2020-12-06T12:44:36-08:00November 2nd, 2019|4 Comments

Orcasional Musings | Water? Electricity? Oh, and gold!

By Steve Henigson|2020-12-06T12:44:36-08:00October 26th, 2019|Comments Off

Learn how, where to preserve local history

By Lin McNulty|2019-10-21T14:24:41-07:00October 22nd, 2019|Comments Off

The Grange? What? When? Why?

By Steve Henigson|2020-12-06T12:44:36-08:00October 19th, 2019|Comments Off

Patos Lighthouse is topic of next Meeting of the Minds

By Lin McNulty|2019-10-08T14:44:55-07:00October 9th, 2019|Comments Off

KOMO News recognizes John Willis for his decades of weather observations

By Lin McNulty|2019-10-03T12:47:32-07:00October 5th, 2019|Comments Off

Silver? Gold? What’s that about?

By Steve Henigson|2020-12-06T12:44:37-08:00September 28th, 2019|Comments Off

Orcasional Musings | Early ferries? From where, to where, with what?

By Steve Henigson|2020-12-06T12:44:38-08:00September 14th, 2019|Comments Off

Letter to Editor | Yikes! Historical data no longer available on county website

By Lin McNulty|2019-09-11T13:14:33-07:00September 11th, 2019|6 Comments

Early ferries? From where, to where, with what?

By Steve Henigson|2020-12-06T12:44:38-08:00September 7th, 2019|Comments Off

Orcasional Musings | Early ferries? From where, to where, with what?

By Steve Henigson|2020-12-06T12:44:39-08:00August 31st, 2019|1 Comment

Orcasional Musings | Friday Harbor? Why’s it called that?

By Steve Henigson|2020-12-06T12:44:39-08:00August 24th, 2019|3 Comments

Orcasional Musings | It’s The Berries! Can They Think?

By Steve Henigson|2020-12-06T12:44:40-08:00August 17th, 2019|2 Comments

Orcasional Musings | New uses for what? Outhouses?

By Steve Henigson|2020-12-06T12:44:40-08:00August 10th, 2019|2 Comments

San Juan Island National Historical Park presents special programs to commemorate 160th anniversary of boundary crisis

By Lin McNulty|2019-08-09T13:00:51-07:00August 9th, 2019|Comments Off

Historical Museums invite you back to school

By Lin McNulty|2019-08-07T12:00:16-07:00August 7th, 2019|Comments Off

Book burning? Really?

By Steve Henigson|2020-12-06T12:44:40-08:00August 3rd, 2019|1 Comment

Indian raiders? Where?

By Steve Henigson|2020-12-06T12:44:41-08:00July 27th, 2019|4 Comments

National Park Service, San Juan Islands Museum of Art present special artist-in-residence exhibition

By Lin McNulty|2019-07-26T12:03:46-07:00July 26th, 2019|Comments Off

The island shaved bald? Why was that?

By Steve Henigson|2020-12-06T12:46:10-08:00July 19th, 2019|2 Comments

Orcas history? Where do you find that?

By Steve Henigson|2020-12-06T12:46:11-08:00July 13th, 2019|1 Comment

Dance halls? Where were they?

By Steve Henigson|2020-12-06T12:46:11-08:00July 6th, 2019|9 Comments

Horseshoe Highway? What’s that?

By Steve Henigson|2020-12-06T12:46:11-08:00June 29th, 2019|1 Comment