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2018 Creative Spaces Tour
GATES & DOORS OPENED TO CREATIVE SPACES Tiny houses created high interest in the Cortes...
The Schools of Squirrel Cove – by Lynne Jordan
At the beginning of the 1900s, Squirrel Cove on the east side of Cortes Island...
Doris Hope – by Tara Warkentin
I never met Doris Hope. I was born in 1998, and she passed away in...
Erratics – by Christian Gronau
A Brief Survey of Cortes Island Beach Rocks DEFINITION: erratic (er-rat’-ic) n. A rock fragment carried...
Dalias – Heritage Garden
Dalias – Living History — The Heritage Garden at the Cortes Island Museum The Heritage...
Orcas in Von Donop Lagoon, ca. 1949 – by Lynne Jordan
Like a number of families in the 1940s, the Herrewigs were a logging family living...
Peony – Heritage Garden
Peony – Living History – The Heritage Garden at the Cortes Island Museum Early summer...
Nature Notes – by George Sirk
Hi to everyone who is interested in the arrivals of different species to our area....
The Biggest Moon of All – by Christian Gronau
(All photographs are the author’s unless indicated otherwise.) We all have seen and marvelled: Lewis’...