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History is a funny thing. Mention the word and most people have a visceral reaction: they either love it, or, hearkening back to school days when they were forced to memorize a parade of boring facts, they hate it. The past is an essential component of our everyday existence, not merely what you had for breakfast this morning. If you don’t understand what shaped your life, it is difficult to chart your course for the future. History informs who we are as individuals, organizations, c...
The recent “La Conner Weekly News” article on the history of the Swinomish Channel has prompted a more complex story of the channel’s alterations over time. The Swinomish Slough, first called the Canim (canoe) Passage by newcomers to the area in the 1850s, was a narrow, winding waterway, so shallow that during the summertime, farmers waded their horses through it to obtain fresh drinking water from springs on the Swinomish Reservation. In 1893, the Army Corps of Engineers dredged the sloug...
