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What’s the Deal With: The Dirty Dan Harris statue in Fairhaven?

Annual festival celebrates one of the first white settlers of Bellingham Bay

The Daniel "Dirty Dan" Harris metal statue that sits om a bench by the Fairhaven Village Green.
The Daniel "Dirty Dan" Harris statue that sits by the Fairhaven Village Green was created in 2003 by Bellingham artist Robert McDermott. (Photo by George Kirk)
By George Kirk Western Washington University
Among the statues located in the Fairhaven Village Green is one of Daniel “Dirty Dan” Harris. &n
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