SuperNatural BC? Do Not Enter
The B.C. provincial government has greeted spring with a stern order to those who would recreate in “Beautiful British Columbia”: Stay home. With a...
The Good News: Puget Sound Herring
Spring on Puget Sound is about gardens bursting with tulips and daffodils, white sails set against glistening blue seas, and massive, shimmering schools of...
Remembering Jerry Gorsline
Just before Jerry Gorsline died he loaned me a book: “Black Brant: Sea Goose of the Pacific Coast.” We had exchanged stories about this...
Off Track! The Log of the Roberto
By Doug Edelsein
In Port Townsend, when you buy your first boat, you get a lot of advice – almost all of it good.
“Don’t buy...
A ReBorn Leader?
Pick up the latest Port Townsend Leader and chances are Brian Kelly will have written the lead story. And usually ten more on topics...
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...
The 2021 Shipwrights’ Regatta: Maximum Fun
photo above by Joel Rogers
Most Washingtonians recognize that February is a winter month, and that the weather can go from calm to gale-force and...
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...
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,...
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Going nuclear: The high school mascot of mass destruction
Editor's note: With the launch of Oppenheimer, we are once again reminded of the legacy of the atomic bomb, and of the people and...
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...
Port Townsend’s Red-footed Booby: A messenger from the future
A little after noon on July 31, 2024, Colleen Farrell, biologist aboard a Puget Sound Express vessel, identified a Red-footed Booby sitting on a...
Brazilian music in our “little village”
We are republishing this article from last year with updates for the 2026 Centrum Choro workshop.
Some years back a Brazilian musical friend stated "we...
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—...
