ashon and Maury Island residents and county and state representatives who worked so hard to win this battle against Glacier Northwest’s proposed mine expansion.

On a beautiful spring day in April 1999, our family attended the Hands Around Maury gathering on the Turner farm above the gravel mine, which was the platform from which our state Sen. Sharon Nelson launched her political career.

Marnie’s commentary inspired me to search my video archives to see if I had saved the tape I had made of the event, and now you can see the edited versions on my ancientgatekeeper YouTube channel, titled Hands Around Maury and The Legend of Dancing Man.

— Larry Porter