What to do on Washington’s Whidbey Island
Author Elizabeth George discovers smugglers, social responsibility and dead men walking on her trip to this little-known island
A mysterious past
A mixed batch of settlers
Whidbey Island is a place where the best and the worst of human nature is readily apparent. The island’s best shows its face in the multitude of organisations that over the years have been established and have thrived to help anyone who runs into misfortune.
Friends of Friends pays the health expenses of those who cannot afford them; Hearts and Hammers repairs the homes of those unable to do so; Mother Mentors goes into the homes of newborns to assist women in the early days of caring for an infant; Whidbey Island Nourishes provides free lunches to needy children seven days a week and 52 weeks per year; Goosefoot restores commercial buildings and turns them into viable businesses to employ islanders; the Whidbey and Camano Land Conservancy negotiates for the purchase of forestland, wetland, seashore, bluff, and prairie to preserve the rural nature of the island; Whidbey Animal Improvement Fund takes in dogs and cats in a no-kill shelter. And on and on and on.
