PORT ANGELES — Journalist Tim Wheeler of Sequim is the featured storyteller at this month’s Story Swap, a gathering in the Raymond Carver Room at the Port Angeles Library this Tuesday night.
Admission is free to the 7 p.m. swap at the library, 2210 S. Peabody St.
Wheeler spent his formative years on his family’s farm, living in the old Bell Hill farmhouse built by pioneer John Bell.
After graduating from Sequim High School in 1958 and attending Amherst College in Massachusetts and the University of Washington, he began a 40-year career writing mostly for The Daily World, now the online site The People’s World and a direct descendant of The Daily Worker, a Communist Party-associated newspaper.
After Wheeler retired in 2006, he and his wife, Joyce, returned to Sequim, where he is working on his memoirs — stories of growing up beneath the Olympic Mountains with the women and men who toiled to make ends meet in the Dungeness Valley.
Wheeler’s set will run until 8 p.m.; then comes a refreshment break. At 8:15 p.m., the open-mic section will start, and storytellers are invited up to share a tale. The swap will wrap up by 9 p.m.
For more information, see the Story People of Clallam County website, www.ClallamStoryPeople.org, or phone 360-452-8092.