When I was little, my mamma always reminded me that I had an uncle out west with a ranch. When you’re young, you don’t pay attention and as I grew older, I had always assumed that this uncle and his ranch was a simple two-acre hardscrabble plot somewhere...
The Pike Place Market was established in 1907 when Kent and Puyallup Valley farmers got fed up with the middle man vendors and drove their wagons up to the bluff overlooking Elliot Bay and set up shops. It has always been a polyglot of immigrants: Italians,...
The 52 year old Alaska ferry Columbia nudges into Petersburg’s dock at 9:45pm Tuesday evening. To make the trip to Bellingham, it needs to capture two narrow passages at slack high tides: one here in the Wrangell Narrows and a second at the Seymour Narrows...
I searched for years to find this ideal piece of property and now, after 20 years living here, it’s time to sell. The property is ten acres in three parcels in Alaska’s smallest city of Kupreanof (population 23). A slough winds behind the house–or...
This is a view of South Lake Union Park created in the first decade of this millennium opening in 2010. The Navy owned the land and the old Armory building was built by the WPA and today houses the MOHAI collection (Museum of History and Industry). There are 6 slips...
In China, it’s the Year of the Rat but here in Alaska with all the rain, it’s “Year of the Mouse.” Rats are intelligent and won’t live in Alaska. We’ve had about 4 times the usual rain and it’s the tropical stuff. So, I...
