South Snohomish County Old Settlers Picnic again canceled due to COVID-19 concerns Posted: July 12, 2021
A group gathers at a past Old Settlers Picnic. (Photo courtesy Chris Deiner-Karr)
For the second straight year, the 122-year-old South Snohomish County Old Settlers Picnic that draws many families to Edmonds City Park, has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Picnic organizer Chris Deiner-Karr said she decided to cancel the event first held in 1899 mainly because those who would be traveling many of whom are seniors “are coming from states with a growing COVID-19 Delta variant and the risk associated with this.”
“This breaks my heart to not see this happen after all these years, but I worry for their safety,” Deiner-Karr said.
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Before Lynnwood – a peaceful land of giant trees
When the loggers and the homesteaders came to the area we know today as Lynnwood, except for the sound of the birds and the soft breeze as it rustled through the branches of the immense trees, there was silence. Located a few miles east and inland from Puget Sound, this land seemed to offer little attraction for the native Salish people. Records indicate they preferred to settle near the rivers or salt water. This land had neither. It was the prospect of lumber the giant trees the fir, hemlock and cedar that became the force behind the allure for a completely different group of people the loggers from the East. They did arrive and the land would be forever changed.