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Lummi Island

Lummi Island is quiet, intimate, and uniquely accessible near Bellingham, Washington. A five-minute ferry crossing reveals a vibrant artist community, legendary dining, and stunning vistas of the Salish Sea.

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July 15, 2025

The Cannery Days of Lummi Island

July 15, 2025/ Islander
The Cannery Days of Lummi Island

A glimpse at the salmon industry on Lummi Island in the early 1900s.

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July 23, 2022

How to turn a piano into art

July 23, 2022/ Islander
How to turn a piano into art

A 1910 church piano takes a final turn.

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September 27, 2021

The Price of Convenience

September 27, 2021/ Islander
The Price of Convenience

Ed Scott remembers his family cabin before electricity and in-door toilets, and ponders the price of modern life on a fragile island.

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August 26, 2021

Euno who? Lost love at The Willows

August 26, 2021/ Iosac Services
Euno who? Lost love at The Willows

A flirtatious correspondence in the heat of summer from a woman of mystery. The Lost Generation was just swinging into the Roaring Twenties with a Lummi Island intrigue that carries on a century later.

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May 04, 2021

Totem blessing at Village Point

May 04, 2021/ Islander
Totem blessing at Village Point

The House of Tears Carvers of the Lummi Nation will blessed a totem pole at Village Point Marina on Lummi Island, a stop on the Red Road to DC.

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March 12, 2021

Letters from Roger: The Konecke family

March 12, 2021/ Islander
Letters from Roger: The Konecke family

Roger Granger’s memories of Ray and Flo Konecke, an artistic and community minded couple that helped Lummi Island along.

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February 06, 2021

The Speed of Lummi Island

February 06, 2021/ Islander
The Speed of Lummi Island

Driving speed around Lummi Island is a best expressed as a cultural spectrum, irrespective of legal speed limits. Finally a definitive source for speed limits with amusing back stories, interactive map, and resources.

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December 20, 2020

The Curious Guest of Loganita Lodge

December 20, 2020/ Iosac Services
The Curious Guest of Loganita Lodge

A happy-ending Christmas story of international romance and adventure, always just one step ahead of an all consuming war.

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December 03, 2020

The Russell’s pandemic cure

December 03, 2020/ Islander
The Russell’s pandemic cure

William Russell had many adventures on Lummi Island, but this story of surviving the Spanish Flu—and the flu cure—seems timely 100 years on, when we enter another pandemic winter…

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October 19, 2020

Mushrooms from Halloween to Christmas

October 19, 2020/ Islander
Mushrooms from Halloween to Christmas

It’s mushroom season! Any walk in the woods these days will reveal a wild variety of mushrooms. These two fungi have an interesting story, just in time for the holidays…

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September 28, 2020

Rest Easy Jerry Anderson

September 28, 2020/ Islander
Rest Easy Jerry Anderson

Jerry Anderson passed away peacefully in his Lummi Island home on 17 September 2020, active and full of irrepressible life force until his final days. With photos and audio from the Washington Rural Heritage collection.

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June 08, 2020

The Buzz About Asian Giant Hornets

June 08, 2020/ Islander
The Buzz About Asian Giant Hornets

Lummi Island Heritage Trust is working with the WSDA to set traps at the Aiston, Baker, Curry, and Otto Preserves to monitor for Asian Giant Hornets. Would you like to join in on this citizen science effort?

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May 09, 2020

Pandemonium: a blame game?

May 09, 2020/ Islander
Pandemonium: a blame game?

When we begin to trace back the origins of this most recent pandemic, the results might surprise you: there's not a single person or critter to condemn. Katie Johnson with Lummi Island Heritage Trust writes about the relationship between vector borne disease and deforestation.

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March 14, 2020

Coronavirus impacts Lummi Island

March 14, 2020/ Islander
Coronavirus impacts Lummi Island

COViD-19 impacts to Lummi Island here, updated regularly.

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March 03, 2020

A bit of The Tome

March 03, 2020/ Islander
A bit of The Tome

Where’s the Rummage Sale going? LICA archives are getting futuristic. And Beach School kids are making change. The Tome highlights here.

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July 28, 2019

Beach School celebrates 100 years

July 28, 2019/ Islander
Beach School celebrates 100 years

A year-long celebration in recognition of Beach School's 100th year.

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May 26, 2019

Support Paddle to Lummi!

May 26, 2019/ Islander
Support Paddle to Lummi!

The Lummi Nation will host Canoe Journey 2019, welcoming 10,000 people and over 100 canoes to honor the rich traditions of Coast Salish tribes of the Northwest. Please support this significant event.

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April 06, 2019

Ditchpickers swarm Lummi Island

April 06, 2019/ Islander
Ditchpickers swarm Lummi Island

The Annual Roadside Cleanup is in the bag, with 86 volunteers participating in “one of the biggest social events of the year”.

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February 13, 2019

Driving Snow

February 13, 2019/ Islander
Driving Snow

Jump in as we drive around the Island and up the mountain for snowy tour of Lummi Island.

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February 11, 2019

Opinionated About Dining: Willows Inn is #1

February 11, 2019/ Iosac Services
Opinionated About Dining: Willows Inn is #1

The Willows Inn does it again, #1 North American restaurant three years in a row by OAD.

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