Tales of the Magic Skagit: Opening a Wood Bound Time Capsule in Anacortes
In a display of old yearbooks at the Anacortes History Museum, there was one in particular that caught my eye: the 1934 “Rhododendron.” What was most immediately remarkable about it was its cover material, which appropriately for the Pacific Northwest was fashioned from wood rather than paper. Opening it was like unsealing a wood grained time capsule into which I peered briefly at the life of its former owner, Jeannette Wilson.