Sculpture Woods adds a local steward
/Island resident and artist Kim Obbink is now the on-island Steward of Sculpture Woods, on behalf of Ann and of Western Washington University.
Read MoreIsland resident and artist Kim Obbink is now the on-island Steward of Sculpture Woods, on behalf of Ann and of Western Washington University.
Read MoreAs the Whatcom Chief celebrates 60 years of service, a new electric-battery hybrid ferry for Lummi Island appears on the funding horizon.
Read MoreThe Lummi Island Heritage Trust has just purchased a new 120-acre parcel on Lummi Mountain adjacent to Aiston Preserve.
Read MoreDavid Vogler and Elizabeth Berg will reopen the doors of Beach Store Cafe March 25, to the great relief of hungry islanders and visitors.
Read MoreIt could be a perfect storm of La Niña and lack of snow plow drivers this winter.
Read MoreEd Scott remembers his family cabin before electricity and in-door toilets, and ponders the price of modern life on a fragile island.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreFerry fares to increase by $1 beginning on May 17, 2021 with additional funds going to a dedicated capital account for a new ferry.
Read MoreRoger Granger’s memories of Ray and Flo Konecke, an artistic and community minded couple that helped Lummi Island along.
Read MoreDriving 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.
Read MoreA happy-ending Christmas story of international romance and adventure, always just one step ahead of an all consuming war.
Read MoreWilliam 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…
Read MoreLummi Island Heritage Trust is offering holiday wreaths, artfully crafted using natural materials, decorative bows, and holiday adornments.
Read MoreIt’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…
Read MoreJerry 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.
Read MoreLummi 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?
Read More“We feel that now is not the time to encourage an influx of travel to our small community.” Beach Store Cafe will close for the Memorial Day weekend.
Read MoreWhen 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.
Read MoreLummi 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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