Scenes of Edmonds

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer photographer Paul Joseph Brown captured these glimpses of daily life around the community. Click on a thumbnail to see a page featuring a larger, more detailed version of the image.

This couple may know that Edmonds touts itself as "the gem of Puget Sound," a claim bolstered by spectacular views of the Sound and Olympic Mountains.

All 14 covered docks at Edmonds Marina collapsed under the weight of rain and snow, sinking at least 200 boats and causing millions of dollars in damage.

The city supports a wide variety of arts, including the Olympic Ballet. These dancers were snowflakes in a recent performance of "The Nutcracker."

Dixie Smith is co-owner with her daughter Cinthia Smith of Love-In-A-Mist, a boutique downtown. Edmonds is urging locals to spend money downtown instead of at nearby malls.

The South County Senior Center offers many programs for the area's growing population of retirees, including this exercise class. The 30-year-old non-profit facility boasts 300 volunteers and offers classes, meals and social services to about 4,000 area seniors.

This group of neighbors has been meeting before Christmas every year for 15 years to exchange cookies. This year they lunched at the Windsor Garden Tea Room downtown, which is owned by Libby Hustler.

Cliff Edwards, cemetery caretaker at Edmonds Memorial Cemetery, in front of the grave of Christopher C. Cook, born in 1838, died in 1901.

Madrona School students are required to do community service work. These students were walking around downtown Edmonds labeling sewer drains with reminders not to pollute.

Judith Ellis and her granddaughter, Alisha Evich, feed the gulls at Edmonds' waterfront park. (Since this photo was taken, parks officials have put up signs asking visitors not to feed the birds.)

Each day 5,000 cars pass through Edmonds going to and from the ferry to Kingston on the Kitsap Peninsula.

School children at Olympic Beach on June 1, 1998, explore the crabs, clams and seastars of the intertidal zone of Edmonds Marine Sanctuary.

A family takes a walk along the shore at Brackett's Landing at low tide on June 1, 1998, as gulls forage for food.

Park naturalist Sally Lider talks June 18, 1998, to one of the Scout groups that come to Edmonds parks to work on merit badge requirements and perform service projects.