The Perfect Port: Anacortes Waterfront Legends & Lore (2005)

"This documentary had to be made. One doesn't need to live in Anacortes very long to to realize that it is a community in transition. Many people today have no idea what it has taken to whittle this town out of the frontier it once was. Close to resources, close to the ocean, and close, relatively, to Alaska, Anacortes served as the 'Perfect Port' for vessels bound for fishing grounds up north. Canneries, warehouses, box mills, shipyards and railroads sprang up to process and ship the bounty the fishermen brought home. In Anacortes' heyday, everything was related, one way or another, to fishing. Fishing was the life blood of so many families. To fully appreciate what we have, we need to never lose of how we got here. This documentary is meant to serve as a legacy and tribute to the fishing families who built this town." -John Killingsworth Produced by John Sabella & Associates Sponsored by Alaska Ocean Seafood, Anacortes Museum Foundation, Anacortes Noon Kiwanis Club, City of Anacortes, Dean & Leslie Kayler, Port of Anacortes Temcov Foundation, Trident Seafoods.