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Category: Arts
Old wooden store with steps and a big porch

Bailey’s Corner Store

Built around 1909, the store was originally a schoolhouse. In 1939, it became the area’s general store and remains so today.

Art Lives on Camano Island

Camano Island is filled with studios and galleries from artists drawn to the island by the region’s natural beauty.

Blue Fox Drive-In Screen playing the National Anthem

Affordable Family Fun at the Blue Fox Drive In

Despite the impressive extent of the business (which includes go-carts, an arcade, and a screen-printing business as well as the drive in movies), you somehow simultaneously feel that you’re at a big backyard party.

Movie set of an actor running as the crew records him running.

The Hour After Westerly

When a man who revels in timeliness and predictability loses an hour and finds a mystery, it produces a haunting puzzle about what might have been. That’s “The Hour After Westerly” a short film mostly shot on Whidbey Island. For a limited time, it’s available online.