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San Juan Island National Historical Park commemorates the Pig War—possibly history’s most peculiar international conflict, triggered by the shooting of a pig in 1859 and resolved without human ...

That’s the challenge Lydia Wood, 31, has set herself. In the process, she is creating an archive of an important part of the city’s nightlife.