Gig Harbor Now and Then | If only they had followed their own advice
Sep 23, 2024Who knows how old these people would have turned if they hadn’t picked up a bad habit. And about that term, “would have turned …”
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Gig Harbor Now and Then | This week’s question involves a disgusting habit
Sep 09, 2024In spite of being a leading authority on absolutely nothing, people ask me questions anyway. For many years, by far and away the most frequent one has been: “What is WRONG with you?!” Coming in a distant second is: “Are you going to finish that?” But this is not the proper forum for those kinds
Two In Tow & On The Go | Beachcombing at Olalla Boat Launch
Sep 06, 2024Beachcombing under and around the bridge here just might find quaint-and-country Olalla fast-tracked into our favorites places list of 2024.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Hospitals, Home Depots and New Hampshirites
Aug 26, 2024Such is the power and reach of this history column (zero and zero) that nobody bothered to inform me, after my little July 28 observation on long-ago furniture names, that the word davenport, as applied to what’s more commonly known as a couch or sofa, is indeed still in popular use on the Peninsula today.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Park, church and more now stand at former railroad crossings
Aug 12, 2024Our last question of local history concerned one of the several Peninsula logging railroads of the early 20th century. With the continuing development of the Peninsula, more of the old logging railroad grades are being destroyed nearly every year, leaving the remaining ones harder to find. But we know they crossed a number of state
Gig Harbor Now and Then | A century later, you can still find signs of the peninsula’s old logging railroads
Jul 28, 2024There is a certain allure concerning the long-ago logging railroads on the Greater Peninsula. The very idea of slow, geared-down steam locomotives chugging through the local old-growth forests over a hundred years ago spurs the imagination. But where were the roads? With ever-increasing development on the peninsulas, fewer and fewer sections of railroad grades remain.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Right Hand Peninsula would’ve been a better name
Jul 01, 2024As we noted in our previous column, the Key Peninsula was named in 1931 through a contest organized by several local businessmen. The winner, Edward M. Stone of Lakebay, submitted the name “Key.” That, added to “peninsula,” of course resulted in “Key Peninsula.” Our new question has to do with the runners-up: What were the
Gig Harbor Now and Then | The dumbest way to kill a shark
Jun 17, 2024E. E. may not have had all his Marbles, given his curious reaction to finding a shark on a beach near Rosedale in 1907.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | You may be familiar with this former Post Office location
Jun 03, 2024The post office was in a well-known building at the corner of Harborview and Pioneer — for most of 1951, anyway.
Two in Tow & On the Go | Connections made in our 14 Names to Remember Project
May 24, 2024Merriam-Webster defines human connection as the state of being linked to another person or people through kinship or common interest. For me, human connection is the reason behind most of my writing.
One thing I’ve always said about my motivations for tracking down the names, dates, correct spellings, missing incident reports and the essential stories behind who these guys were is because I felt it was important to get the lives of these young men in front of people again. To put their stories, acts and sacrifices on the modern day record and not stuffed away in a printed-paper archive somewhere. And, with any luck, perhaps even attract the attention of their descendants who, in all likelihood, never found out the specifics of how their dad’s brother or their grandmother’s cousin fought and died in WWII.