San Juan Island's historic claim to fame was the Pig War of 1859. The war started when a pig owned by Britain's Hudson Bay Company got into an American farmer, Lyman Cutler's, farm digging up his potato plants and eating his potatoes. Cutler got his shotgun and shot, killing the pig. When asked why he shot the pig, he said, "It was eating my potatoes." Englishman, Charles Griffin responded, "It is up to you to keep your potatoes out of my pig." When...