Editing Anacortes, Washington (section)

==Festivals and celebrations==
*"Shipwreck Day" is a single-day, flea market/town garage sale event held annually on the 3rd Saturday in July. City management accommodates the occasion by blocking off several downtown streets.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.skagittourism.com/event_show.cfm?id=17|title=skagittourism.com|access-date=February 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212010748/http://www.skagittourism.com/event_show.cfm?id=17|archive-date=February 12, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*What the Heck Fest was an annual festival coinciding with Shipwreck Day.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/07/20/i-went-to-what-the-heck-fest-and-all-i-got-was-this-sort-of-enlightening-communal-experience-heavily-rooted-in-the-mysterious-geography-that-s|title=I Went to What the Heck Fest and All I Got Was This Sort of Enlightening Communal Experience Heavily Rooted in the Mysterious Geography That Surrounds Anacortes, WA|work=The Stranger|access-date=October 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130402144130/http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/07/20/i-went-to-what-the-heck-fest-and-all-i-got-was-this-sort-of-enlightening-communal-experience-heavily-rooted-in-the-mysterious-geography-that-s|archive-date=April 2, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> It began in 2001 and held its last festival in 2019. The festival took place at various locations in Anacortes a week in the middle of July. Performers presented music, movies, literature, and art. The thematic center of the festival is the dinner show that includes a full meal along with the concert, an actual community event.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brooklynvegan.com/upcoming-mount/|title=upcoming Mount Eerie shows, What the Heck Fest in WA}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=20050527&id=s2hWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-_IDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4481,6097041|title=The Spokesman-Review – Google News Archive Search}}</ref>
*The first weekend of August hosts the [[Anacortes Arts Festival]].  Started in 1962 as the result of the efforts of a group of community arts patrons, the festival is held in the midst of blocked-off downtown main street areas.  Vendors, merchants, and artisans present their wares in covered booths while jazz and blues musicians are showcased on four different stages.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
*The [[Oyster Run]] is an annual one day motorcycle rally held on the fourth Sunday of September.  Beginning in 1981, the event has grown into the largest rally in the Pacific Northwest,{{citation needed|date=May 2022}} with an estimated motorcycle count of 15000 bikes, and growing in numbers each year.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://oysterrun.org/goskagit.com.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=December 19, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107005302/http://oysterrun.org/goskagit.com.pdf |archive-date=January 7, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*The Anacortes Farmers Market began in 1989 and occurs every Saturday from May to October, with a special holiday market the weekend before Thanksgiving and monthly winter markets from January to April.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}