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    Rockin’ a Hard Place: Heritage wheat on a...
    By Harry Anderson • July 18, 2025 1:30 am

    Flour has been made by humans since the beginning of time by grinding wheat with a stone into a powder…

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    Rockin’ a Hard Place: Some Brit tips for...
    By Harry Anderson • June 24, 2025 1:30 am

    I noticed a number of things that I wish life on Whidbey were more like.

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    Volunteers at the new Gifts from the Heart food bank, including Coupeville Mayor Molly Hughes (back row, second from left), await their customers on opening day.
    Rockin’ a Hard Place: Coupeville’s new food bank...
    By Harry Anderson • May 23, 2025 1:30 am

    Gifts from the Heart opened its beautiful new, $1 million food bank building on Southwest Terry Road

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Keith Jordan stands beside his biggest septic pumping truck, which holds 5,000 gallon of stuff.
    Rockin’ a Hard Place: Working hard to become...
    By Harry Anderson • April 29, 2025 1:30 am

    Keith Jordan founded Dirty Deeds Septic to service all of Whidbey.

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    Rockin’ a Hard Place: Can it be true?...
    By Harry Anderson • January 29, 2025 1:30 am

    It’s the start of a new year so, of course, it’s time for my annual poke-fun-at-Oak-Harbor tribute. In the past…

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    Cheryl Waide
    Rockin’ a Hard Place: Some beautiful bells are...
    By Harry Anderson • December 18, 2024 1:30 am

    Cheryl Waide moved to the Rock in 2013 with her husband Jon Waide, a retired Presbyterian minister.

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    Rockin’ a Hard Place: A Thanksgiving reflection on...
    By Harry Anderson • November 26, 2024 1:30 am

    Thanksgiving really is a moment to step back and appreciate how good we’ve got it.

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    Rockin’ a Hard Place: Travel boom brings lots...
    By Harry Anderson • October 30, 2024 1:30 am

    I am just back from a wonderful three-week cruise that took us from New York City to Quebec City, Canada….

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Francis and Mary Ellen LeSourd sit on the porch of the home they built in 1892.
    A prairie house built 132 years ago regained...
    By Harry Anderson • September 20, 2024 1:30 am

    Francis Asbury LeSourd, a Civil War veteran, bought 320 acres of farmland in Ebey’s Prairie in 1886.

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    Rockin’ a Hard Place: Finding some quiet places...
    By Harry Anderson • August 21, 2024 1:30 am

    It’s important forRock dwellers to find still places that the hordes of summer visitors don’t haunt

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    Rockin’ a Hard Place: Finding beautiful instant gratification...
    By Harry Anderson • June 19, 2024 1:30 am

    Given the recent spate of glorious sunshine after a bigger spate of rain, I knew that I would soon be…

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    Ebey’s Prairie on a gorgeous spring day.
    A Rockin’ a Hard Place: A self-guided history...
    By Harry Anderson • May 22, 2024 1:30 am

    As spring has finally sprung on our Rock, after a chilly and damp couple of months, it’s of course time…

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    The portrait of Dr. Bishop is missing.
    Rockin’ a Hard Place: Remembering a forgotten legacy...
    By Harry Anderson • April 23, 2024 1:30 am

    When Dr. Paul Bishop came to Coupeville in 1949 and became the town’s only doctor with an office on Front…

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