George Vancouver and the Puget Sound Map

On a foggy spring morning in May, 1792, 231 years ago this week, a sea-weary group of British sailors made their way out of...

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Insectivore Birds Part 2

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Here’s the second of a two-part series on insect-eating birds. In Part 1 I wrote of the importance of insects, and described some of...

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So Long, Pygmy Kayaks

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More than three decades ago, when guys like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were building technology companies that would change the world, another Ivy...

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On the Water - On the Hard

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One cold February day eons ago I walked into Brion Toss’s rigging shop in Port Townsend. As usual, he was in a jovial mood...

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Here’s the second of a two-part series on insect-eating birds. In Part 1 I wrote of the importance of insects, and described some of...

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Field of Dreams: How We Signed Cal Ripken

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Each spring, as we approach Opening Day, I’m reminded that baseball is about a weird concoction of reality and fantasy, physics and psychics, curve...

Learning to Lie

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Insectivore Birds Part 2

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Here’s the second of a two-part series on insect-eating birds. In Part 1 I wrote of the importance of insects, and described some of...

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Winterspring

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When television first came to our neighborhood in the early 50’s there was a puppet on the Howdy Doody Show whose name was Princess...

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Writing

Deep River Road – A Book begins a Journey                                                 

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Words and Photographs by Joel W. Rogers October 17th 2022   Cape Disappointment State Park. Once again, my 1999 Subaru and I are doing what we were...

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More than a year and a half into the pandemic, the transition back to normalcy has been tragically upended by a combination of the...

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