Talking History with Secretary of State Sam Reed This May, during Friday Harbor’s celebration of National Preservation Month, we had a special visitor: WA Secretary of State Sam Reed. While here, he requested a private tour of Friday Harbor’s historic district and the San Juan County Courthouse. Town of Friday Harbor Historic Preservation Coordinator Sandy Strehlou led the historic district tour; District Court Administrator Marion Melville led the tour through the 1906 courthouse. The tours were Secretary Reed’s idea; Strehlou and Melville were all too happy to oblige. Even the weather cooperated offering up one of the first sunny days

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