There’s a quality to an aging sidewalk that someone once artfully described as “the patina of age.” It’s the rough,…
The benefit of a good museum is that it can provide insights not just into a community’s past, but often…
Someone famous once observed that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” His point was that it defies reason…
Creosote-treated pilings bad, removal good. That’s the essence of the city’s position on the scattered remnants of docks and piers…
It’s an unfortunate day when an islander of lesser means waves the white flag and moves away. Some Eagle Harbor…
Ferries with fewer riders generate less farebox revenue than ferries with full seats. That was the less-than-startling finding of an…
Something you don’t see every day on Manzanita Bay: straw men fishing for red herrings. That is nonetheless what islanders…
Investing in the local arts Sure, you may go home with an objet d’art. But what is the real objet…
Concrete, as they say, is forever. But as chance and history would have it, the mill town of Port Blakely…
Would Winslow get all the money? To some, that was the fear. In the first few years of the all-island…
Not that it really has anything to do with the editor – who has no say in the advertisements that…
The locals call them “the old men” – affectionately, of course – and these stately neighbors do indeed enjoy their…
Often unable to reach consensus, beholden to small constituencies when broader concerns are at stake, mistrusting of professional staff, mired…
