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    Articles by Harry Anderson
    The mollusk that ate Coupeville and vice versa | Rockin’ a Hard Place
    The mollusk that ate Coupeville and vice versa...
    By Harry Anderson • March 4, 2015 5:54 pm

    Hard to believe, but not too long ago some folks on the Rock didn’t care much for mussels. The creatures disfigured dock pilings and messed up boat bottoms. Their sharp-edged shells cut your bare feet. They were tough and rubbery if you ate the big ones right off the beach. And the idea that someone would create a commercial mussel farm and plop several dozen floating platforms on pristine Penn Cove waters just off Madrona Way raised more than a few Rock hackles back in the 1970s.

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    Grave marker’s tale of love and prejudice
    By Harry Anderson • February 4, 2015 4:03 pm

    In historic Sunnyside Cemetery, overlooking beautiful Ebey’s Prairie, there are hundreds of old and elaborate markers showing where the prairie’s white pioneer farmers and their families eternally rest.

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    Memories bring year to a close on the Rock | Rockin’ A Hard Place
    Memories bring year to a close on the...
    By Harry Anderson • January 8, 2015 1:16 pm

    Few of us bother to sing the third verse of “Deck the Halls” at Christmastime, but it’s a sweet celebration of the new year’s approach: “Fast away the old year passes / Hail the new, ye lads and lasses / Sing we joyous all together / Heedless of the wind and weather!”

    So, ye Whidbey lads and lasses, herewith I sing carols about some fond year-end memories here on the Rock, heedless of our wind and weather.

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    You can’t beat holidays on the Rock | Rockin’ A Hard Place
    You can’t beat holidays on the Rock |...
    By Harry Anderson • December 3, 2014 5:00 pm

    You know what I enjoy most about holiday season on the Rock? Wherever I go, it’s as if the last 50 years never happened.

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    Keep it charming, historic, genuine | Rockin’ A Hard Place
    Keep it charming, historic, genuine | Rockin’ A...
    By Harry Anderson • November 5, 2014 8:11 pm

    I just spent 17 days crossing something amazing off my bucket list. In September, I cruised the Danube, Main and Rhine Rivers on a luxury boat with 160 other bedazzled tourists through six countries, past countless castles, innumerable cathedrals and more cobblestones than there are stars in heaven.

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    When Armageddon hits, I will survive
    When Armageddon hits, I will survive
    By Harry Anderson • September 3, 2014 5:28 pm

    I grew up in the 1950s in Tacoma. My mother was a modern housewife who thanked heaven every day for making her life easier with Betty Crocker cake mixes, Swanson’s TV dinners, Hamburger Helper and store-bought everything.

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    My unabashed crush on the Rock | Rockin’ A Hard Place
    My unabashed crush on the Rock | Rockin’...
    By Harry Anderson • August 6, 2014 6:07 pm

    Dear Whidbey Island,

    This summer marks the fifth anniversary since you and I moved in together, and I am more in love with you today than ever. You have made me forget every other place I ever lived: Tacoma, Seattle, Vietnam, Japan, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Dallas.

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    Duck and Cover: the invaders have arrived | Rockin’ A Hard Place
    Duck and Cover: the invaders have arrived |...
    By Harry Anderson • July 2, 2014 7:35 pm

    The annual summer invasion of the Rock has begun. There are creepy, curious, voracious creatures everywhere, and I’m not talking about tented caterpillars littering our footsteps. Squish, squish, squish.

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    The friends of Bill are woven together |...
    By Harry Anderson • June 4, 2014 6:06 pm

    My friend Bill Dyer died recently, just shy of his 88th birthday.

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    Rockin’ A Hard Place: The true meaning of rockin’ a potluck
    Rockin’ A Hard Place: The true meaning of...
    By Harry Anderson • April 16, 2014 9:48 am

    What is it about life on the Rock that makes all of us so contented most of the time?

    Can’t be the weather — too wet. Can’t be the booming economy — it isn’t. Can’t be the scintillating night life — um, let’s not go there.

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