Jennifer Jackson

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Little guide for parents takes the cake

WHICH CHURCH OFFERS free child care at a "Mom's Time Out" from 9:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Monday mornings? Which gourmet, waterfront restaurant welcomes families… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Great-granddaughter visits family mansion

MARY LOUISE OLSON wasn't a quitter. At the age of 15, after her brothers were lost at sea, she emigrated from Malmo, Sweden, to the… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Holiday tour opens window on childhood

SHE WAS THE youngest of the 14 cousins, but Phyllis Silva-Keith still remembers the big house on G Street, a block off Cherry. She can… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Fashion writer turns silk into art

POLLY FISH WAS at work one day when she happened to spot it SEmD the most beautiful coat she had ever seen. It was periwinkle… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Teen’s turn-of-century journal goes home

HE LOVED MUSIC, being outdoors, going to the Rose Theatre and staying up late. He hated getting up early, going to school and the idea… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Pies on the Run invests in passion

FOR THREE-AND-a-half decades, Nancy Fitch and Claudia Neva have played their own brand of western music. Fitch plays guitar and harmonizes with Neva, who plays… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: A cup of joe and a show

WHILE THE JEFFERSON County commissioners consider how to regulate the location of adult businesses, Janet Emery has an R-rated show going on right outside her… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Book lovers walk into pages of bitter and sweet

ON SATURDAY, COLLEEN Freidberg stepped onto the streets of Seattle and into the pages of a novel. The plot was familiar: a boy and a… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: This neighborhood walks on the art side

IN JUNE OF 2009, Anna Nasset-Glenn followed her dream and with only a few hundred dollars in the bank, bought an art gallery in downtown… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Pianists put the dynamic in duo

THEY SHARE THE same name. They grew up in the same area. They went to the same university at the same time, majoring in the… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Racing shells go back to the source

"BACK OF THE bread is the flour, and back of the flour is the mill. And back of the mill is the wind and the… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: It’s Fun and Games for Volunteers

ASK BOB ROSEN what's on his "to-do" list and he'll have a ready answer. Rosen is the manager of the Quilcene Community Center, which is… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Eat, Stay, Work: It’s a Habitat habit

IN "EAT, PRAY, Love," author Elizabeth Gilbert describes her yearlong attempt to rebound from divorce by immersing herself in the culture of Italy, meditation in… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Though small, garden big on beauty

MOST PEOPLE TAKE it for granted: the small garden plot on the left, circumscribed by pavement, as you drive down the Sims Way hill into… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Plot thickens in this parish potboiler

WAS IT THE bishop who planted the seeds of the idea last fall? Or the deacon who sowed them in the local parish during Lent?… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Father’s music path to Pennine Way

IT STARTS DRAMATICALLY with a clash of cymbals. Then the drums set the pace, echoing the tramp, tramp, tramp of footsteps -- soldiers and Scouts,… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Playing the King of Clowns

FOR THE PAST 17 months, Ron Campbell's life has been a circus. Except for travel breaks, he has performed nine shows a week in a… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Woman living the purposeful, colorful life

JENELL DEMATTEO LIVES a busy, colorful life. From her house in Port Hadlock, which is painted a nonshrinking shade of blue-violet, she commutes to two… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Ghost stories light up keeper’s house

WHEN LUCINDA EUBANK joined the Port Townsend Coast Guard Auxiliary, which conducts public tours of the Point Wilson Lighthouse, she came with a pedigree --… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Turn left at Gunther the crocodile

YOU MIGHT NOT know it's there. But turn off the main highway into town at Fredericks Street, then left on Otto, and follow the winding… Continue reading