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By Lucy Stephenson,Michal Sleight,Rick Anderson

From explorer Peter Puget to bachelor Johnson Brothers, whose farm turned a local museum, mythical Locals of Anderson Island chronicles the emergence of a life-style that unfailingly awakens echoes of days long gone. Anderson Island, the southernmost of all islands in Washington State�s Puget Sound, was once settled within the past due 1800s via immigrants predominantly from the Scandinavian nations. They obviously introduced with them and practiced their old-country methods of navigating, farming, and development. In time, as a result of its remoteness and relative inaccessibility, a society of self-reliant but heavily attached citizens took root. The subsistence farming, logging, and fishing practiced by way of the early pioneers have in general given strategy to cottage industries or day-by-day commutes to the mainland. whereas retirement has develop into the bulk profession of today�s islanders, a colourful neighborhood existence keeps to flourish, based round actions subsidized via the island�s a variety of volunteer-staffed organizations.

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