CENTRUM AT 50: BACH TO THE BLUES AND ALL THAT JAZZ
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...
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...
R2AK: North by Northwest
This weekend, a hundred or so disgustingly fit sailors and paddlers and rowers will descend on the Port Townsend waterfront for the wildly eccentric...
Meltdown at the Park: 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...
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,...
What will happen to the “Why” in journalism?
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...
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...
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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...
Birds on the Beach
Gulls are not the only feathered friends found on our local beaches. Some birds spend most of their time foraging along the beaches, including...
A Fairyland of Mosses
In winter when the leaves have fallen and the world is misty and gray, it’s time to embrace the beauty of moss! If you’ve...
Who the Heck was Juan de Fuca?
The recorded history of the Pacific Northwest begins four-and-a-quarter centuries ago, when two grizzled, gray-haired sailors met up in Renaissance Venice and struck up...
Recipes From the 1950s: Passive-Aggressive Casseroles
The Deranged Gourmet, Part 2
Food prices are nuts, amirite? They're are so high that when you buy a popsicle you have to pay extra...
