A COUPLE OF weeks ago, Jacque (“Jackie”) Booth was working in her yard in Brinnon, fertilizing plants around her deck. Looking up, she saw an… Continue reading
WHEN YOU'RE THE youngest of six children, you never outgrow your childhood nickname. But when Conrad Oien, 55, of Port Townsend was named Elk of… Continue reading
IN 1975, KIM Stafford was sitting in the Town Tavern on Water Street with Sam Hamill, founder of Copper Canyon Press. Stafford knew that Hamill,… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND — Thirty years ago, Fred and Helen Grabos were invited to a wedding in Japan. The couple, who lived in Japan in the… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND — On Christmas Eve of 1960, George Houghton, a retired U.S. Navy chief petty officer, was killed in a car crash. Houghton, a… Continue reading
ELEVEN YEARS AGO, Dan and Donna Purnell were visiting friends Andrea and Steve Abercrombie, who live in Langley on Whidbey Island. While the men went… Continue reading
NORDLAND — When he was 8 years old, Marty Loken spent the summer living with his family in a remote cabin on the Quinault Indian… Continue reading
IT'S KNOWN AS the 5-50-50 rule: A boater who falls into the chilly waters of Puget Sound or the Strait of Juan de Fuca has… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND — When is an elk a caribou? When did the Wallowa Mountains move to the upper Midwest? And why should new authors accept… Continue reading
WHEN JACK SEBBEN of Port Townsend was 8 years old, he got his first bicycle: a maroon Schwinn coaster. It was the basic bike of… Continue reading
WHEN JOHN HOPE was growing up in England in the 1950s, he'd spend weekends with an uncle who lived in St. Albans, north of London.… Continue reading
A YEAR AGO last fall, Trevor Hanson was thinking about what to name the band he and two other musicians, Sam Klippert and Gary Prosser,… Continue reading
IN THE MID-1980S, the Kingston Trio played to a packed house at the Back Alley Tavern in Port Townsend. The cover charge, according to Jim… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND — Dogs and Gorilla Glue don’t mix. That point was graphically illustrated by veterinarian Abbie Doll when she visited Blue Heron Middle School… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND — One of Louise Barcelou’s childhood memories is standing in line Saturday morning to receive castoff clothing. For socks, she recalled, you held… Continue reading
IN MAY OF 1891, one of the most famous characters in fiction fell to his death after grappling with his archenemy at the edge of… Continue reading
ON MAY 18, 1952, Ann Davison set sail from Plymouth, England, in a 23-foot sailboat. Eight months later, Davison dropped anchor in the West Indies,… Continue reading
EDITOR'S NOTE — Port Townsend-based independent multimedia journalist and videographer Jack Olmsted is doing a series of videos on the Pourhouse. We ran the first… Continue reading
IN 1889, IN anticipation of the railroad coming to Port Townsend, Nathaniel Hill expanded his apothecary business by building a multistory edifice on Water Street,… Continue reading
WE'VE ALL SEEN the ads — wrinkle creams that airbrush age, diet pills that dissolve fat, exercise machines that etch your abs — and thought:… Continue reading
