My Wooden Boat is a House

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 (from Chapter 14 La Finca, Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island) In honor of the opening of the Port Townsend Wooden Boat...

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...

Permission

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This week, we bring you another short story by Port Townsend writer, Mark Clemens. This story originally was featured in The Coachella Review. Out at...

Deep River Road – A Book begins a Journey                                                 

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Words and Photographs by Joel W. Rogers October 17th 2022   Cape Disappointment State Park. Once again, my 1999 Subaru and I are doing what we were...

How to Answer the Call of the North

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The following originally was published in Post Alley. By the end of April, the annual migration will begin.  Hundreds, then thousands of tourists from...

The Insights of Tralfamadorians and Quakers

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Port Townsend author JoAnne Tompkins's novel What Comes After was the winner of the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize runner up in fiction award...

Cherishing Our Actual Lives Beneath the Clouds

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I lived most of my life in the Southwest, far from the upper left-hand corner of this country.  How did I encounter Mike O’Connor...

Managing Fishermen, Just for the Halibut

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Sometime soon, halibut will return to tables from Port Townsend to Manhattan. It will be excellent fish, pearly white, never frozen, fresh off the...

Learning to Lie

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Three years ago, my lovely man died after many years of living with every possible indignity Alzheimer’s could throw at him.  We faced it...

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So Long, Pygmy Kayaks

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More than three decades ago, when guys like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were building technology companies that would change the world, another Ivy...

Garth Hudson’s PT Performance Remembered

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An update from Charlie Bermant: I first published Garth Hudson’s address with encouragement to write him and then this address was picked up by...

Maritime Voices: New podcast offers local maritime stories

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A new local podcast has started by Jim Heumann.  We asked Jim to give us an overview of the podcast and we’ll post notifications...

Hush-hush: Our Biggest Park is a Local Secret

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Port Townsend is surrounded by state parks.  From Point Hudson, we look into at least five: Fort Worden and Fort Casey to the east,...

The lost commencement address by Tom Robbins

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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...