Bainbridge Island Frog Rock in Bainbridge Island, Washington

June 7, 1971, marked the birth of an island icon. One rainy night after their graduation ceremony, two young people went out to fulfill their part in a local tradition known as “Paint Night.” A rock formation at the corner of Madison and Phelps Road had long been subjected to various graffiti, but Bob Green and Linda Barnes decided it looked like a frog and proceeded to paint it that way. The rocks are technically a glacial erratic, a large boulder left behind by the movement of glaciers. The stones…

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