Daryl Beerbower displays a line of mussels on a tour of a Coupeville mussel farm during the Penn Cove Musselfest March 5. Behind him, Aaron Schmidt takes questions from tourists.
Flexing mussels
Musselfest visitors enjoy Penn Cove boat tours.

Jim Freeman was the kind of guy who made everyone feel like a close friend.
Fourth of July celebrations on Whidbey Island will be back with a boom, for the most part.
A summer of classical tunes is back for the seventeenth year.