When Joan Melcher retired from teaching in 1993, she became the hiking guru for the Skagit Audubon Society, and soon started helping maintain various trails too. A year later, her husband Duane got involved.
Arts and Leisure
Jack Hartt
4 minutes read
Jack Hartt
4 minutes read
I remember hiking on Kiket Island on Inauguration Day, 2021.
Jack Hartt
4 minutes read
I looked around at the trees to see who might be older than me, who is younger, and to find life lessons we might share with each other, the old and the young.
Anacortes Now
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Downtown Anacortes galleries are open Friday night for Artwalk. We;ve got the locations.
Jack Hartt
4 minutes read
I walked south along the beach, a heron wading slowly in the dark waters. A thick wrack line of seaweeds and salt plants mingled at the high tide line.
Anacortes Now
3 minutes read
Head to downtown Anacortes for the monthly First Friday Artwalk this Friday.
Jack Hartt
5 minutes read
How many places have you lived? It counts if you moved everything with you and never moved back to the same house.