Lynn Swanson is a longtime farmer who loves to grow, cook, preserve and enjoy good food.
“Farming feeds my soul,” says Linda Bartlett, co-owner with Valerie Reuther of Rosehip Farm near Coupeville.
Concerts and workshops by world-class musicians, and impromptu “djam” sessions all over town make for an exciting five days of “le jazz hot” as Gypsy jazz fans and musicians gather in Langley Sept. 19 through 23 for DjangoFest Northwest at Whidbey Island Center for the Arts.
The teen years are supposed to be spent finding one’s identity, but 14-year-old Hannah Armstrong has a new identity thrust upon her in the first chapter of Elizabeth George’s young adult novel “The Edge of Nowhere,” due out Sept. 4.
