AUTHOR BRAD MATSEN has gone to great lengths to find stories. He trekked through France to discover Jacques Cousteau's Calypso rotting at a dock while… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND — When Lloyd Baldwin was growing up in the 1950s, his parents owned the Tides Inn on the waterfront on Sims Way. The… Continue reading
QUILCENE — There is a defining moment in the course of any project. For Bob Rosen, a former Hollywood producer, it was when he was… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND — When he was 4 years old, Dan Newland started building model airplanes, the kind with plastic parts you punch out and snap… Continue reading
TROPICAL RED CORAL. Ocean-blue lapis lazuli. Purple amethyst, orange carnelian, turquoise, jasper and onyx. Sarah DuBose has a sultan's ransom of glowing semiprecious gemstones, a… Continue reading
IT SHOULD CAPTURE the flavor of Mount Townsend climb with an edge of salt water, Mary Kollar said. It should have an undertone of chicory,… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND — In 1990, Edwin J. Gaede — known as E.J. — was riding home from a rehearsal of the Port Townsend Community Orchestra… Continue reading
A FEW MONTHS ago, Laurie Medlicott and Paula McNees looked around the community center and realized they had a problem. Twelve people had made reservations… Continue reading
LAST WEEK, STRAINS of “Pomp and Circumstance” wafted through the air as high school seniors marched down aisles to receive their diplomas. Only three, however,… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND — Where will you spend eternity? Megan Smith has an option that might shake family skeletons — or what remains of them— out… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND — Wendell Ankeny remembers the phone call he received on a spring day 12 years ago. An ordained minister, he was retiring as… Continue reading
THERE'S A FROGGY Bottoms pub near St. Olaf's University in Northfield, Minn., and a bar by that name in North Carolina. On New York's Long… Continue reading
IN MARCH 2010, Jared Fennell's high school senior project was launched at Point Hudson: a cedar-frame angyak (Inuit-style canoe) like his great-great-grandfather used to build.… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND — His parents met at the USO club — now the American Legion hall — in Port Townsend after World War II. He… Continue reading
QUILCENE — Bob Canterbury remembers the night the Linger Longer Lodge, a historic resort on Quilcene Bay, burned down. He was 10 years old and… Continue reading
TWO SUMMERS AGO, Diane Belmont was returning home to Everett after visiting her mother, Alice Albert, in Port Townsend. Belmont had taken the ferry across… Continue reading
TWO YEARS AGO, Laingdon Schmitt and Kirk Gresham came to Joshua Colvin, publisher of Small Craft Advisor magazine, and asked if he wanted to help… Continue reading
