Greg Spadoni

He or she played the part of The Wind in their elementary school’s production of the play Rumpelstiltskin, which should make the answer obvious.

Benjamin Pardee, whose many swindles included selliong fish oil on Fox Island, was a real snake-oil salesman.

None of the stories Greg Spadoni wrote about the photos he found in a second-hand store are true. But they are funny.

Even if it’s literally carved in stone, sometimes a homestead is not a homestead.

The previous Gig Harbor Now and Then column gave the answers to four questions concerning early local telephones. One question that was not asked or answered last time concerns how to cope with one of today’s internet providers on the Gig Harbor and Key peninsulas, CenturyLink. Having had multiple extensive, unwanted, unsatisfying, and unfathomably bad experiences

Cross-Narrows phone service has been available since 1907. To call a car dealer, people in those times needed only to dial ‘1’.

Tree rings tell a lot about not only the life of the tree, but also some of the events that occurred on the land it grew on.

Why were the names of so many local pioneer families often spelled several ways in official documents? Many didn’t read or write, and many were not native English speakers.