Eugene Thrasher, a trained Washington State University Beach Watcher with more than a thousand volunteer hours under his belt, has been digging and eating clams in Washington for half a century. Thrasher is the guy to ask if you want to learn how to find and dig a clam.
Follow him through a clam dig at Penn Cove on Whidbey Island, and then learn about types of clams found in Washington. Finish up with a dose of Northwest icon Ivar Haglund singing “Acres of Clams.”
You can read more about clams in “In Season: Clams.”
You can listen to the full interview with Ivar Haglund and Bob Nelson from the KCTS show “Ballads and Books” in 1959 at Pacific Northwest Folklore’s website.