Hard Aground: Thinking the Unsinkable
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
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
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:Â How the Arts Clashed with History at Fort Worden
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
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
The United States will, in November, reopen its borders to Canada and Mexico to fully vaccinated visitors traveling by land or ferry, ending 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,...
Millions of Birds in Trump’s Crosshairs
By Karen Sullivan
A new interpretation of a century-old law meant to protect birds would not only leave more birds dead, it would also add...
So Long, Pygmy Kayaks
More than three decades ago, when guys like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were building technology companies that would change the world, another Ivy...
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So Long, Pygmy Kayaks
More than three decades ago, when guys like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were building technology companies that would change the world, another Ivy...
On the hard: Thea Foss
From Classic Yachts to Fish Packers: Their Stories
Movie Stars, Depth Charges and Tugboat Annie: The Story of the Thea Foss
I still can't think of...
Sockeye & Me: Two Journeys Cross Paths
Like so many of our neighbors, I was drawn to Port Townsend by saltwater and sawdust, and by the amazing wooden boats that blend...
The lost commencement address by Tom Robbins
Photo of Tom Robbins by Dan Wallen. Used with permission of University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections MPH1272
When I was the editor of the...
George Vancouver and the Puget Sound Map
On a foggy spring morning in May, 1792, 231 years ago this week, a sea-weary group of British sailors made their way out of...
