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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.

The mostly-underwater Beach of Dreams was once part of a sawmill, then bought by a 3-year-old, who was eventually sued by her own father.