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PAT NEAL: Opening day of elk season
IT WAS DAYLIGHT in the swamp on the opening day of elk season.
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PAT NEAL: The day after the election
“THE WHOLE COUNTRY is going to hell in a bucket now that we’ve elected those idiots,” my fancy…
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PAT NEAL: Can you eat a fish?
A TOURIST RECENTLY asked me how and where they could catch and eat a fish.
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PAT NEAL: The end of the last frontier
IN LAST WEEK’S episode of heroes and villains of the North Olympic Peninsula, Victor Smith, a city father…
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PAT NEAL: Olympic heroes or villains continued
IN LAST WEEK’S episode, we were reviewing a number of historic individuals who could be considered heroes or…
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PAT NEAL: Olympic Peninsula heroes
ON JULY 3, President Donald Trump proposed a “National Garden of American Heroes.” The proposed national monument would…
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PAT NEAL: There walks a logger
IT WAS THAT great American philosopher Buzz Martin, also known as “The Singing Logger,” who said, “There walks…
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PAT NEAL: My cow-riding rodeo career
NOTHING SAYS SUMMER like the roar of the lawn mower, the spike in seasonally-adjusted gas prices and the…
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PAT NEAL: A sorry individual
IT WAS THAT great American philosopher John Wayne who spoke these immortal words, “Never apologize and never explain.…