There was good weather, good food and generations of Good family members celebrated at the 117th annual Skagit County Pioneer Association Picnic and General Meeting in La Conner’s Pioneer Park Thursday (Aug. 5). The descendants of the 19th century pioneering Edward Early Good and Thomas Good families, who settled and farmed on Firm Island in the 1870s, were joined by other pioneer family successors and scores of newer immigrants to Skagit County. They came together, primarily unmasked, in a tradition that was only broken in 2020 by the coronavirus pandemic.

The families, neighbors, friend...