Becoming a Citizen Scientist
Citizen scientists brave a hailstorm. Photo by Wendy Feltham.
After a career as an elementary school principal, I moved to Port Townsend and surprised myself...
The Loudest Jets in the Quietest Park
In the summer of 2014, the U.S. Navy established an Electronic Warfare Range on large swathes of Washington's Olympic National Forest and in airspace...
The View From Blyn Lookout
A couple of months ago my husband, Bruce, and I bought a new-to-us camper, the cabover style, from some folks out near Lake...
Housing: Here’s Something We Can Do
What if we told you that we can’t solve the homeless crisis by building houses? That’s a pretty counterintuitive statement, especially coming from an...
The Trail: Do We Know the Way to Discovery Bay?
Every ride or hike on the Larry Scott Trail is an exhilarating jaunt leading to disappointment. We revel in the views across Townsend Bay,...
Akeyla’s Excellent Adventure: Let’s Finish!
Sixty miles into the Seventy-48 race, Akeyla Behrenfeld decided she was done. The 14-year-old Port Townsend middle schooler had rowed her home-built, wooden boat...
Solar Under the Rain Shadow
At 6 am this morning, our home was using two-tenths of a kilowatt/hour (KWh) of electricity from the regional power grid – just enough...
One Small Fire, Thousands of Seabirds
This summer, as in countless summers past, Protection Island became a colossal daycare center for tens of thousands of seabirds.
Glaucous winged gulls laid their...
What Goes Around Is Coming Around
Here in Port Townsend, we have seen the future. It’s round, runs counterclockwise, and forces us to turn right. So it’s going...
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The lost commencement address by Tom Robbins
Photo of Tom Robbins by Dan Wallen. Used with permission of University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections MPH1272
When I was the editor of the...
On the Hard: Catalyst
From Classic Yachts to Fish Packers: Their Stories
Catalyst and the Beautiful Wild Country
Catalyst departed Port Townsend on May 5th to begin her mid-May...
River Otters
Was that a sea otter or a river otter you just saw swimming offshore? People often think they see sea otters foraging on our...
So Long, Pygmy Kayaks
More than three decades ago, when guys like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were building technology companies that would change the world, another Ivy...
Diana Talley – Shavings in my brassiere
I met the unsinkable Diana Talley many years ago. It was at a party of wooden boat people. Diana has been a foundational person...
