Senior City: How Old Are We?
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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...











