What will happen to the “Why” in journalism?

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AP moves to replace journalists with "visual" reporting. Why? The five W’s in journalism every student learns on day one are “Who, what, when, where...

CENTRUM AT 50: BACH TO THE BLUES AND ALL THAT JAZZ

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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...

R2AK: North by Northwest

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This weekend, a hundred or so disgustingly fit sailors and paddlers and rowers will descend on the Port Townsend waterfront for the wildly eccentric...

Hard Aground: Thinking the Unsinkable

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Ferry-dependent commuters across Puget Sound shuddered at the images of the venerable superferry Walla Walla, ignominiously grounded on a Bainbridge Island beach over the...

Those Lazy, Crazy, Shipwright Days of Winter

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Here’s an idea. Let’s take everyone’s idea of a normal sailboat race and turn it on its head. First thing we’ll do is have...

Our Census Selfie: PT by the Numbers

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The 2020 Census numbers are collated and crunched and – guess what? – Port Townsend is still old and getting older. If there was such...

Meltdown at the Park:  How the Arts Clashed with History at Fort Worden

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Ross Anderson is a founding member of Rainshadow. This story originally ran in Post Alley and the Port Townsend Leader. Ross has allowed...

We Regret the Error: 100 Years of Editorial Blindness

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The following story first appeared in Post Alley. Last weekend, the Seattle Times issued a highly unusual mea culpa, revisiting and apologizing for its 1942...

US (Finally) Opens The Doors To Canada, Mexico

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The United States will, in November, reopen its borders to Canada and Mexico to fully vaccinated visitors traveling by land or ferry, ending a...

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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...

The lost commencement address by Tom Robbins

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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

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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—...

The Delightful Harbor Seal

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One of the delights of my Port Townsend life is watching harbor seals. Looking out at the sea while walking along a beach, I...