Senior City: How Old Are We?

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By Dan Klepinger and Ross Anderson. You’ve probably noticed that Port Townsend and Jefferson County are old.  But numbers don't tell the whole story. How...

Porgy and Bess now

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Don White was on KPTZ last week hosting his “Broadway Showtime” program and talking about the musical Porgy and Bess, the 1959 film version....

There is a road

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There is a road I drive many evenings between a friend's house and mine To the west a jagged line of firs black against the evening sky. The sky, deep...

Roundabout

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By Wanda Fuca Roundabout is our inaugural items column, an ongoing collection of local observations and anecdotes that seem worth sharing.  The idea is to...

The Deep Sanity of Living in a Co-Housing Village

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By Brad Matsen             In the winter of 2019, my sweetheart and I moved into a fifty-five-and-over co-housing community on the western slope of Morgan...

Closer to South

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By Bob Francis (map looking due north of Port Townsendby Google Earth)             I moved, he moved. I stopped, he stopped, and his motorcycle fell...

Welcome to The Rainshadow Journal!

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Rainshadow Journal is a website of news, commentary  and photography produced by a collective of retired journalists and co-conspirators, most of us in Port...

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Going nuclear: The high school mascot of mass destruction

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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...

Our Local Baby Birds

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Feature photo: Mallard Duckling at Kah Tai Lagoon All photos by Wendy Feltham. One of the delights of summer in Port Townsend is noticing baby birds...

Insectivore Birds Part 1

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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

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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...

Spiders are Special

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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—...