And all the neighbors' houses would have smaller, lighted stars on their roofs. Jim Lynch was beyond his Rock-climbing days before Anna Belle moved in, so he wouldn't have been one of the many local kids she warned about climbing The Rock. So I'd go out and warn people about that. Only once in her memory has The Rock been defaced, she noted. Some kids, I guess, painted symbols on it.
Schoolteachers still bring classes of youngsters to see The Rock.
In good weather, adults often come and have mini-picnics in the shade of the big trees alongside The Rock. There have always been, still are, probably always will be, groups of university students coming to see The Rock, which in Geology 101 terms is known as the Wedgwood Erratic. So-called, it seems, because it's not like most other local rocks. One other like it is up in Coupeville, on Whidbey Island. And there are smaller ones, Rockettes, I guess you'd call them, alongside Aurora Avenue North at Woodland Park.