Crab season: Your Handy Guide
Crab season starts Thursday. Insider tip: There’s a secret way to consistently get Dungeness crabs here in Port Townsend. You can’t miss. Here it...
CENTRUM AT 50: BACH TO THE BLUES AND ALL THAT JAZZ
In the summer of 1984, a shy 19-year-old aspiring jazz pianist from Nanaimo, BC, showed up for Centrum’s weeklong Jazz Port Townsend workshop. A...
Hush-hush: Our Biggest Park is a Local Secret
Port Townsend is surrounded by state parks. From Point Hudson, we look into at least five: Fort Worden and Fort Casey to the east,...
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...
Where’s my Glass of Wine? And What Does Housing Have to Do With It?
I recently went out for dinner with a neighbor, a part-time, mostly-here-in-the-summer- kind of neighbor. He teaches at a university, leads research, and publishes...
WA360: The Race to Alaska Comes Home
By Ross Anderson
Try this for a business plan: Invite people to pay $550 each to enter a race that requires them to row, paddle...
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...
A Whale Came Through a Curtain of Surf
In early December, Jim and I booked a cabin at the beach on Washington’s far west coast. No internet, no interruptions, just a quiet...
Homelessness: What you see isn’t what you get
Dan looked like an Army sergeant. Denise looked like a Vogue model.
If you had crossed paths with them in downtown Port Townsend in the...
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Who the Heck was Juan de Fuca?
The recorded history of the Pacific Northwest begins four-and-a-quarter centuries ago, when two grizzled, gray-haired sailors met up in Renaissance Venice and struck up...
Bill Curtsinger’s Voyage: Camera to Coffee
New Photo Exhibit Coming to Grover Gallery
Fifteen years ago, Bill Curtsinger drove a rental car into Port Townsend, hoping to reconnect with an old...
Insectivore Birds Part 1
I love the diversity of Pacific Northwest birds and insects. This is a two-part photo essay about both— Insectivore Birds. (Of course, the lovely...
The lost commencement address by Tom Robbins
Updating this to honor the life and times of Tom Robbins, who walked on today. He lived a remarkable life.This post originally appeared here...
Spiders are Special
Spider Web Colors
Lasers? Northern Lights? Woven belts? No, this is a spider web. Lately I’ve been fascinated with one of the eight-legged arachnids—...
