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The 113th Annual Skagit County Pioneer Association Picnic and General Meeting is on August 3 at La Conner’s Pioneer Park. The celebration includes live music, an old car show, and historic pictures recognizing the Honored Families. Many “old-timers” are expected. The $12 cost registers attendees as pioneers and includes a ribbon, program, Historian’s memorial pamphlet and ticket for a barbecue salmon dinner for the 11:15 a.m. lunch. Staff from the Skagit County Historical Society and Museum and Skagit Valley Genealogical Society volunte...
Five Spanish-speaking families are being featured at the Skagit County Historical Museum with its new exhibit, “Voces Del Valle,” which means, “Voices of the Valley.” One, the Hernandez family, established themselves in the 1940s in La Conner, raising nine children, all of whom graduated from La Conner High School. Mercedes DeJesus Lopez and Morris Hernandez moved to Skagit County from Eastern Washington in 1948, following her father, Miguel Lopez, who had come here the year before. Morris...
