Getaway Guide 2013

Port Townsend & Olympic Peninsula

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A visitor to Point Hudson enjoys sharing the sand with a flock of seagulls. Photo by Al Enger

≈ Welcome ≈ National Park, which, as you probably know, is one of the largest temperate rain forests Jefferson County Commissioner Phil in the United States. This is not a forest that Johnson once told me a story about how he can be explored in a weekend. The Hoh grew up in Port Townsend and thought he’d Rain Forest is nothing short of a natural leave for greener pastures. Then he went wa- wonder. terskiing in Port Townsend Bay and while And if you want to put the urban world speeding past the city, he looked up, saw the into perspective, drive up Mount Walker, snow-capped mountains, realized he was on five miles south of Quilcene, and look west the water and wondered: Why? Why leave? to that small green city in the mist. Indeed, Well, he didn’t, of course. He’s now in Seattle – the “Emerald City” – does look his 60s. He’s been a fisherman, a contraclike something out of The Wizard of Oz, a tor and a county commissioner in the town tiny, gleaming speck, far, far away. where he was born.

If all that water exploration and hikSo why should anyone come to Jefferson ing makes you hungry, head for a farmers County in the first place? market. They are all over the county – from Because we have it all. Everything.

Brinnon and Quilcene to Port Ludlow You want to be on the water? There are to Chimacum to Port Townsend. Port ramps for your boat, opportunities to whale Townsend has one of the biggest “small” watch, and plenty of beaches to walk and markets in the United States. Yes, that’s in explore. And we host the annual Wooden the entire country. Every Saturday from Boat Festival, the best boat show ever, in April well into December, as many as 70 September. vendors create a magical community in the You want to hike in the mountains? Most Uptown Historic District of Port Townsend. of Jefferson County actually is in Olympic There’s plenty of fresh produce and preBy Allison Arthur

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pared food that showcase the talents of local entrepreneurs.

Chimacum, in the heart of farm country, has many of the same vendors at its Sunday market. And Port Ludlow has its own market on Fridays.

Fresh, local produce and meats also are featured at a number of our excellent restaurants, so be sure to stop and savor all the flavors Jefferson County has to offer.

Or go pick some blueberries. They’re good for you.

If you come and then decide you want to stay, think creatively, like Johnson did. He didn’t have just one career. He has had at least three: one related to water, one related to land, and now one that has him caring about all of it – the ocean, the land, the food we eat – in the place he loves and where he raised a family.

Look at the little girl above embracing the world around her. That’s what Jefferson County offers. It’s a place that has it all, if you take a moment, like Johnson did, to realize it.

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Port Townsend Welcome to Port Townsend, where the end of the road meets the Salish Sea. First impressions are important, and ours is usually favorable, considering the number of people who visit and want to live here.

First impressions are free, and so is the following News Around Town, from the award-winning Port Townsend Observation Deck blog at ptleader.com. I’m in the news business, and here is your Getaway Guide edition of News Around Town: Tourist News: Welcome! Everyone is a tourist when they visit somewhere other than their home zone, so why not be friends?

Jefferson County is a year-round destination, with golfing, fishing and shellfishing, shopping (lots of locally made products), eating out, biking or just hanging out at a slower pace. But not that slow; locals are going places, too.

It’s not uncommon to see Port Townsend Bay full of sailboats and wooden boats in the summer. And there usually are plenty of festivals going on between May and September. Photo by Patrick J. Sullivan

Food News: Number-one question asked by a visitor: Where is a good place to eat?

Take your pick. Really, it’s that good. Fresh is the order of the day, from our Saturday and Wednesday farmers markets to the Food Coop to our mainstream grocery stores. Don’t let a hole-in-the-wall location fool you – try it.

Overnight News: Number-two question asked by a visitor: Where is a good place to

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stay? If it’s short notice on a busy weekend, I say wherever you can find a vacancy. We have some great overnight accommodations, Victorian and modern, but places get booked up. Savvy travelers check reviews on websites such as TripAdvisor or Yelp. Make your reservations early, as in one year ahead, for any special date: wedding, holiday, Wooden Boat Festival, etc.

Deer News: Number-three question asked: What’s with all the deer? Yes, be alert for our city deer, blacktails born and raised in our backyards who follow pedestrian laws as well as most locals do. They eat well and are a creative force – check out the intricate garden fences erected as defensive measures.

Thanks to a city-limit leash law, along with the deer, we have raccoons, coyotes (anytime of day, any part of town) and, although you won’t see any, we have rats. Yes, wharf rats, whose local numbers date to pioneer sailing ship days, another aspect of our Victorian seaport heritage.

Boat News: All you want to know and do with boats takes place along Port Townsend Bay: Design, build, repair, sail, motor, paddle and otherwise propel yourself through the saltwater, or on one of the peninsula’s lakes or rivers. Watching is OK, too, and whale tours out of Point

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Hudson are most excellent. Please be aware that ocean tidal action and/or wind can ground an anchored sailboat (every year in September, guaranteed). Point Wilson is the pinch point of tidal action and shipping lanes: Navy ships and subs, and every merchant vessel, cruise ship, etc. going to and from Seattle. It is no place to casually venture in a sea kayak.

T-Shirt Saying Of The Year: “We’re all here because we’re not all there.” You’ll also see it on bumper stickers.

Parking News: Blue sky and trees we have a lot of, downtown parking spaces, not so many. Pay attention to the two-hour parking limit or risk paying a parking ticket. No worries – any park-and-walk you may do here is cheesecake compared to the supermall parking lot, and our reward is sweeter. ALERT: Be aware that delivery trucks park in the middle of the street – another of our funky features.

Demographic News: The baby-boomer age wave taking place nationwide is front and center here. At 54.7, Jefferson County’s population has the oldest median age – half higher, half lower – in Washington state and is in the top 20 nationwide. Our population (26,000 countywide, including 9,100 in Port Townsend) is a generation older than most anywhere else in the USA. But this is not some cookie-cutter retirement community. People here, of all ages, are out and about doing whatever it is that turns them on.

Housing News: This is a pretty place, but the housing market picture is not so rosy. Since the national economic collapse in 2008, our real estate market has nose-dived. There are plenty of property foreclosures and short sales. New construction in all of Jefferson County in 2012 was the lowest in 10 years, by half. The good news? Quality builders are at your beck 8 ❚ 2013 Getaway

Dogs are allowed at the Port Townsend Farmers Market on Saturday, but please remember to pick up after your best friend. People treats can be taken to nearby picnic tables to eat, or the lawn of the Port Townsend Community Center next door, which also has public restrooms. Photo by Allison Arthur

and call, and lower starter-home prices are more reasonable. Prime waterfront homes are still prime waterfront homes.

Economic News: Here’s the glasshalf-empty view: The median income in Jefferson (what your household must earn here to afford housing) is well below the statewide average. We have tremendous food bank supporters here, and that’s great, because the number of first-time users has tripled since 2007. Glass-half-full version: locally made, locally strong, with amazing entrepreneurs, from high tech to farming to retail; a Young Professionals Network; and local investors who believe in community.

Tip: When it comes to jobs, if you are moving here, you’d best bring one with you.

Smell News: Our county’s largest employer since 1928 has been the Port Townsend Paper Corp., located just outside

Go ahead, try a fresh oyster when available.

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the city limits, and that odor you sometimes smell? It’s coming from the mill’s settling ponds. It’s like buying a house near an airport and complaining about the noise.

This town has a paper mill; you do see smokestack steam and sometimes smell a smell. The mill must have various permits, an issue which watchdogs are onto.

Night Life News: Uniquely Port Townsend is our mix of small-town pace with big-city nightlife. OK, OK, it’s not like the big city, but it’s the best on the peninsula in terms of music, art, dance, theater, writing, poetry, food, beer, wine and cider. Spice things up with our daytime adventures: festivals and markets, museums, parks, waterfront, marine science, boat tours, and coffee, chocolate and/or ice cream.

To-Do News: Whether it’s for you or my relatives from Minnesota, here is my to-do list: Check out our historic Uptown district, visit Fort Worden State Park, go for a beach walk; get out on the water, somehow; and eat fresh seafood. Do not shy away from an oyster shooter.

Quote Of The Week: People love it here, for all kinds of reasons. This is what an “active” senior citizen who has been here for about 20 years told me: “I consider this Camelot or La-La Land. Half the reason why I live here is because of the people. I count more friends here than I accumulated in my whole previous life.”

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Make your next trip to the Port Townsend area an experience in arts immersion. It’s easy to do, with something to fill any day of the week.

Day 1, Wednesday: Get settled in and spend your first night on a live-music pub crawl (with the help of a designated driver).

The Upstage Restaurant & Theatre has an event or live music every night. Check out the music and great eats at Sirens Pub, Highway 20 Roadhouse and Hilltop Tavern in Port Townsend; Hadlock House, Ajax Café and Valley Tavern in Port Hadlock; and the Fireside Restaurant lounge in Port Ludlow. Or, test your knowledge at the Uptown Pub’s Trivia Night.

Day 2, Thursday: After a late night on the town, treat yourself to an independent film or Hollywood blockbuster at either the

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Rose Theatre or Uptown Theatre. Cozy up with the family for a double feature at the Wheel-in Motor Movie drivein theater. Attend the Port Townsend Film Festival (Sept. 20-22), which offers

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independent films, special guests and outdoor movies. There’s also a rich world of live theater here, with high-caliber productions by Key City Public Theatre, Chameleon Theatre and Poetic Justice Theatre Ensemble, plus numerous community and student troupes.

Day 3, Friday: Centrum, a worldrenowned nonprofit arts organization, conducts numerous workshops and Freddy Pink, with its iconic mix of powerhouse rock and sultry soul music, has played for audiences across the United States. The group performs regularly in Port Townsend. Submitted photo

“Caution: Water Line Below” is the name of a dress designed by Margie McDonald and modeled by Alison Wood for a Beautiful Apparel to Beyond Belief Wearable Art Show. It is made entirely from a roll of blue caution tape bearing the words that became its name. The garment won Best of Show at a fundraiser in 2012. Events like this showcase the talent of local artists. See more events, starting on page 56. Photo by David Conklin

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performances, including Voice Works, June 24-30; Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, June 30-July 7; Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, July 7-21; Jazz Port Townsend, July 21-28; and the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival, July 28-Aug. 4. The Mythsinger Foundation and host Brian Rohr welcome all to an evening of storytelling at Better Living Through Coffee on the first Friday of each month.

Day 4, Saturday: On weekend afternoons from June 29 to Sept. 1, the Olympic Music Festival (near Quilcene) offers chamber music performed in a bucolic farm setting, replete with a barn and hay bales for seating. On the first Saturday of every month, downtown Port Townsend buzzes with Gallery Walk, 5:30-8 p.m., when galleries stay open late to offer a first look at the month’s shows.

Stroll from gallery to gallery, and check out Quimper Sound, one of the few vinylrecord stores around these days.

Day 5, Sunday: Feeling inspired?

Spend your last day in Port Townsend by releasing your creativity. Try a new artistic endeavor in a community art space for the “serious (and curious)” at Hand Work Studio or with the Bazaar Girls, a crafting community. Drop by Akamai Art & Glass Supply for the right tools to create in any

medium and to check the bulletin board for classes given by talented local artists.

Or, get in front of a live crowd through the many open mikes and karaoke that take place. Olympic Peninsula Dance and Port Townsend Community Dance offer a variety of dance opportunities.

Be sure to bring a piece of the local arts scene home with you – a new dance move, song or CD, handcrafted jewelry, fine art pieces or something you created yourself.

Keep abreast of these events and many, many more through ptleader.com and the Community Calendar, which appears in the Leader newspaper every week.

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Charlie Bodony has been warming up the Saturday Port Townsend Farmers Market for some time now with his very hot alder-smoked paprika, made from peppers he grows himself.

Bodony also has been delighting vendors on Saturdays with the smell of his freshly made breakfasts that he cooks over a portable propane stove before settling down to sell his paprika.

This market season, Bodony will be serving up breakfast on Saturdays at the Port Townsend market and on Sundays at the Chimacum market, using local ingredients.

That’s the thing about the farmers markets in Jefferson County. They – for

Jesse Hopkins of Colinwood Farm washes produce from his Port Townsend farm, which is available at the market as well as at his stand in Port Townsend, which offers produce 24/7.

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there are four of them, at least – keep changing, expanding, growing, because Jefferson County has a fetish about food.

Farm to market For fresh food direct from local farmers and producers, check out these farmers markets.

Port Townsend Farmers Market runs Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., April through October, and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

November and December in Uptown, corner of Lawrence and Tyler streets.

Chimacum Farmers’ Market is open Sundays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., June 2 through October at Chimacum Corner Farmstand, 9122 Rhody Drive, about nine miles from Port Townsend.

Port Townsend Wednesday Market is on Wednesdays from 2 to 6 p.m., July 3 through Sept. 18, corner of Lawrence and Polk streets, Uptown.

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Port Ludlow Friday Market runs Fridays from 1 to 5 p.m. at Port Ludlow Marina & Resort May 1 through Sept. 30.

We like it. A lot. We like it fresh.

We like it local. We like it interesting.

Which means we go to market to get a fresh food fix.

A good number of us are on a firstname basis with the people we buy our meat and vegetables from – folks like Charlie, and Zach from Dharma Ridge Farm or Jesse from Colinwood Farm or Roger from Short’s Family Farm or Hanako and Marko from Midori Farm or Don from Walker Mountain Meats.

There’s also a trend to have fun with food – which is probably why Charlie put bottles of his alder-smoked paprika in a bandolier one year, pretending they were bullets, and why market manager Will O’Donnell invited the Bug Chef to come to market and top locally made pizza with grasshoppers last year.

Honestly, there’s always something a little deliciously wacky going on at market.

O’Donnell likes to say Jefferson County is one of the “largest small markets” in the United States.

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That might be hard to prove. What can be said of Jefferson County is this: “Seattle has to pull vendors from all over the state to get the diversity and quality we have right here in Jefferson County,” says O’Donnell.

With more than 70 vendors, you’ll find not only fresh produce, flowers and bread, but also meat and seafood, honey, jam, aprons, art, candles, jewelry, dog biscuits, crafts, pasta, eggs and even trees.

The Port Townsend Farmers Market on Saturday takes up a block in Uptown next to the Port Townsend Recreation Center at 620 Tyler St. On any given Sunday, there also could be other events happening at the center, from book sales to art events. There are restroom facilities there as well as a place for kids to hang out and play.

The Sunday market in Chimacum is at the epicenter of the farming community in Jefferson County and next to the Chimacum Corner Farmstand, which is a rural retail grocery that also features “Food from Here.” The store

The Port Townsend Farmers Market on Saturdays is one of the largest “small” farmers markets in the country. While large city markets draw farmers from many counties, Jefferson County has enough vendors for markets on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

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also is a great place to look for farm connections, and its website – chimacumcorner.com – offers recipes using local food, including interesting suggestions such as chocolate chili that marries Steve Habersetzer’s garlic, chili sauce from Lopez Island, Theo organic fair trade chocolate and beans from Oregon.

What farmers markets all have in common – whether you are in Port Townsend, Chimacum, Port Ludlow, Seattle, Grays Harbor or Manzanita, Ore. – is a taste of community character.

People like Charlie Bodony kick it up a notch every year. He says his breakfasts this year will include gluten-free biscuits from Pane d’Amore, sausage that he will get from Walker Mountain Meadows, beef from Roger Short’s farm on occasion, produce from the endless variety of vendors, too numerous to name.

There are also value-added food vendors at the market. There’s everything from salmon sandwiches to crab cakes to gluten-free breads to bagels, coffee, chocolate, homemade tamales and pizza.

And there’s also a lot of talk about food at markets. Expect to hear converJefferson County Farmers Market manager sations about food security issues and Will O’Donnell holds a pizza pie that features grasshoppers. TV personality David George the local survey of farmers – and what Gordon, also known as the Bug Chef, paid a visit farmers need to succeed. At the top of to the market in 2012 to talk about alternative their list: They need more customers to protein sources. He wasn’t the only guest chef to choose them for fresh food. appear in person to do demonstrations.

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farmers once a year is to take the annual Farm Tour – which will be Sept. 15 this year. Check out the WSU Extension Jefferson County website for details, jefferson.wsu.edu. Typically, food is offered at every farm.

There is an endless supply of fresh food – as well as fresh characters – at the farmers markets in Jefferson County.

So come meet them – and eat up the flavors of the market.

Charlie Bodony of Some Like It Hot has fun with his food. Note his paprika bottles are “bullets” in a bandolier he wore for Halloween. Bodony plans to make breakfast using locally sourced ingredients at the Saturday Port Townsend Farmers Market and the Sunday Chimacum Farmers’ Market.

Photo by Allison Arthur The Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader

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15 Weird things

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About Jefferson County 1.

Most of Jefferson County is in Olympic National Park and there is no road between the east end of the county and the west end. You’ve got to go through Clallam County to get to the other side of Jefferson County.

2. Jefferson County is the first county in Washington state in 60 years to pull the plug on Puget Sound Energy and move to public electricity. Three counties considered the issue in 2008; only Jefferson County voted to make the change. 3. It’s not your imagination, Port Townsend has more Toyota Prius owners than almost anywhere. At one point, there were 8.2 cars per 1,000 residents. 4. In Washington state, rural Jefferson County is the state’s per-capita solar leader, with one certified renewable energy project for every 337 residents.

Port Townsend was named Washington Solar City of the Year in 2009. 5. The Port Townsend Farmers Market is the largest market west of Seattle and was named best large market in the state in 2011. It considers itself to be one of the best smallest markets in the U.S. 6. Jim Whittaker, the first American to climb Mount Everest, lives in Jefferson County and continues to

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work to get people of all ages outside and into “nature’s cathedral.” 7. His son Leif, a Port Townsend High School graduate, has now climbed Everest twice.

8. By 2011, the median age of people in Jefferson County rose to 54.7. This means that Jefferson County is “almost a generation above the median age of people in the U.S.” It has the oldest median age of any county in Washington, and Jefferson County’s population is among the oldest 20 counties in the U.S. 9. One of the most widely read articles in the Leader, Jefferson County’s official newspaper is a story about Paula Lalish’s exploding knitting needle, which appeared online on Aug. 11, 2004.

10. Mount Olympus, “home of the gods,” is the highest peak in the Olympic mountain range, at 7,965 feet. 11.

On May 1, 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Mount Everest. Whittaker lives in Port Townsend and advocates for people of all ages to get outside and enjoy the world.

Photo by Nawang Gombu, copyright Jim Whittaker

“We’re all here because we’re not all there” is a favorite local bumper sticker.

When Hollywood Video wanted to move into Port Townsend, another oft-seen sticker was “Frankly, my dear, we DO give a damn.” And when Rite Aid tried to open a drug store in Port Townsend, an opposition bumper sticker quickly made the rounds: “Rite Aid, wrong town.” Rite Aid pulled the plug on the store. 12. Jefferson County’s economy consists almost entirely of family-owned businesses. There are few chain stores. The largest private employer is the Port Townsend Paper Corp., with about 300 employees; the largest public employer is Jefferson Healthcare, with about 500 employees.

13. Indian Island, now home of a U.S. Navy munitions unloading and storage depot, got its name before the turn of the century when local Indians, primarily of the S’Klallam tribe, went there to live after they were removed from the Port Townsend area and sent to the Skykomish Reservation, at the southernmost end of Hood Canal.

14. The Hood Canal Bridge, which connects the Olympic and Kitsap peninsulas, is one of the five longest floating bridges in the world.

The western half of the bridge sank in a fierce windstorm in 1979. 15.

The original street level of downtown Port Townsend was a full story below the current level of Water Street. Some old buildings have sets of windows now below street level. At the time of Port Townsend’s settlement, what is Water Street was literally the water – it was where the beach met the sea.

Another street was platted all along Port Townsend’s waterfront, called Front Street, but was never built.

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Tieton Cider Works owner Craig Campbell talks about taste with attendees at the Summer Cider Day event at the Northwest Maritime Center. More than 10 cideries offered guests the opportunity to sample a wide variety of fruit ciders and learn about the fledgling Northwest Cider Association, established in 2010.

Summer Cider Day is set for July 7 this year. It is the Northwest Cider Association’s biggest event of the year. Photo by Megan Claflin

Beer, Wine, Cider

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For a sip

Bring a designated driver and come taste your way through the Olympic Peninsula.

You, your friends and fellow travelers can find everything you want in a tasting event in or around Port Townsend, from fancy spiced hard cider to red wine and craft microbrews.

Before you set out to search for your favorite cider or wine in this small Victorian seaport and arts community, remember that you are here to enjoy, so step out of your 20 ❚ 2013 Getaway

comfort zone, try something new, taste a wide variety and take a bottle of something home.

Locally owned businesses appreciate your support, and you can bring bottles back as gifts or save them for your anniversary or for savoring memories of one amazing vacation.

Townsend’s annual Strange Brewfest staged each January at the Marvin G. Shields American Legion Hall downtown. Strange Brewfest features weird, eclectic, even random beers, and the festival lures folks from around the Pacific Northwest.

Beer and fun

Cider and wine

For those of who favor beer, visit the Pourhouse, a craft-beer taproom and bottle shop on the Port Townsend waterfront. There are more than a dozen frequently rotated taps, a small wine list, a large selection of bottled beer and a bright, open gathering space on Port Townsend Bay. For a brewery scene, head to Port Townsend Brewing Company’s tasting room, located in the Port Townsend Boat Haven shipyard, across the highway from Safeway. The tasting room offers a number of beers on tap, bottled beers to take away and live music during the summer.

Get your hotel reservations early for Port

Cider and wine connoisseurs, look no farther.

East Jefferson County is host to four outstanding cider and winery businesses, which include tasting rooms for your tasting adventure.

Sorensen Cellars is a family-owned winery located just outside of Port Townsend city limits on State Route 20. It doesn’t have tasting-room hours, but its wines are sold locally.

Alpenfire Orchards is located about nine miles west of town and offers Washington’s only certified-organic hard cider, as well as

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Port Townsend Arts celebrates

& Crafts Guild

41 Years as a self-supporting non-profit arts organization,

providing arts scholarships to local students and helping to fund other cultural activities in Jefferson County.

37th Annual Rhododendron Arts & Crafts Fair May 11th and 12th Madison Street and Civic Plaza downtown 23rd Annual Uptown Street Fair Arts & Crafts Show Saturday, August 17th Tyler Street by Community Center 23rd Annual Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair 40th Annual Crafts by the Dock Fair November 29th and 30th September 7th and 8th Port Townsend Community Center & Rec Center (downstairs) Madison Street and Civic Plaza Lawrence and Tyler Streets Uptown downtown Applications for fairs and scholarship applications available at

www.porttownsendartsguild.org or call 360-379-3813, 360-774-6544

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vinegar. Alpenfire’s cider choices range from Spark! semisweet to organic Pirate’s Plank “Bone Dry” and organic Ember bittersweet.

Alpenfire recently won a national Good Food Award for its Orleans-style organic apple cider vinegar.

Eaglemount Wine & Cider is located in the Chimacum Valley, approximately 12 miles from Port Townsend, a drive that takes you through beautiful farmland. It makes hard apple ciders and specialty ciders, including a ginger cider chosen as one of 43 best in the world by Sunset. The Cyser cider is a hard cider fermented and sweetened with honey. The Perry cider is a slightly sparkling cider crafted from organically grown pears.

Finnriver Farm also is located in Chimacum Valley. Along with berries and other produce, the farm offers sparkling hard ciders, dessert wines and liqueurs. Finnriver’s artisan sparkling cider and Farmstead sparkling cider are both pressed and handcrafted on the farm from wild homestead and organic Washington apples.

There’s fun for all at the Strange Brewfest, set for January 2014 in Port Townsend. It’s an event not to be missed in the middle of the winter. Photo courtesy Michael Foley

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FairWinds Winery 1984 Hastings ave. w., Port Townsend 360-385-6899 fairwindswinery.com Tasting-room hours: Open noon-5 p.m. daily from Memorial Day to Labor Day, and noon-5 p.m., Friday-Sunday, from September through May. Finnriver Farm & Cidery 62 Barn Swallow Road, Chimacum 360-732-6822 finnriver.com Tasting-room hours: Noon-5 p.m. every day except Christmas. Tastings cost $5 per person.

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Learn about Hope, our orca.

Visit the Natural History Exhibit (Hope’s home) and the Marine Exhibit at Fort Worden State Park.

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Eat up, eat out It’s the first question visitors stop and ask locals: “Where’s a good place to eat?”

That’s a tough question, of course, because it all depends on what you are hungry for at that moment – a juicy hamburger or something vegetarian, an exotic dish or just delicious local fare.

For the past 17 years, the Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader has hosted a “Best Foods” contest. The friendly and completely unscientific competition – voting twice, three times even, is encouraged – offers locals and other regulars the chance to vote for their favorite eateries.

While favorites are listed here, there are some restaurants that don’t participate, and some are new, so they aren’t mentioned. In short – don’t let the results sway you from trying any corner café, roadside restaurant or other eatery that may strike your fancy.

And don’t judge a restaurant from the street. Restaurants do not stay in business long without local support. The best often aren’t much to look at, but do offer day-in, day-out good eats.

More and more restaurants are including fresh local produce so you’re apt to get not just good food, but local food.

Two excellent ways to check out local food are the Taste of Port Townsend event, which this year is set for June 13; and the annual Jefferson County Farm Tour, which showcases local fruit, meat and vegetables in everything from ice cream to pie.

Jefferson County Farmers Markets – there’s one on Saturdays in Port Townsend, another on Sundays in Chimacum – also offer lots of great food.

If you simply want to dine out, however, here are our 2012 Best Foods contest winners.

Go out and enjoy a culinary adventure.

2012 Leader Best Foods Contest Here are the top vote-getters in the Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader’s 17th annual Best Foods Contest. All are Port Townsend businesses unless otherwise noted.

Best Asian Food: 1) Ichikawa Japanese Cuisine, 2) Khu Larb Thai, 3) 1-2-3 Thai Food.

Best Baked Goods: 1) Pane d’amore artisan Bakery, 2) Farm’s Reach Café, Chimacum; 3) Sweet Laurette Café & Bistro.

Best Breakfast: 1) Blue Moose Café, 2) Bayview Restaurant, 3) Farm’s Reach Café, Chimacum.

Best Burger: 1) Burgers Landing, Port Hadlock, 2) Public House Grill, 3) Sirens.

Best Coffee: 1) Mean Bean Coffee Co., 2) easy Times espresso, Port Hadlock, 3) Farm’s Reach Café, Chimacum.

Best Dessert: 1) elevated Ice Cream Co. & Candy Shop, 2) Sweet Laurette Café & Bistro, 3) Farm’s Reach Café, Chimacum.

Best Fish & Chips: 1) Sea J’s, 2) Scampi & Halibuts Seafood Grill, Port Hadlock, 3) Public House Grill.

Best Happy Hour: 1) Sirens, 2) Pourhouse, 3) Silverwater Café.

Best Healthy/Organic/Local: 1) Food Co-op, 2) Owl Sprit Café, 3) Farm’s Reach Café, Chimacum.

Best Mexican Food: 1) Fiesta Jalisco, Port Hadlock, 2) el Sarape, 3) La Isla.

Best New Place: 1) Brickhouse Bistro, 2) Doc’s Marina Grill, 3) Pippa’s Real Tea. Best Pasta: 1) Lanza’s Ristorante, 2), Fountain Café, 3) Brickhouse Bistro.

Best Pie: 1) Chimacum Café, 2) Bayview Restaurant, 3) Farm’s Reach Café, Chimacum.

Best Pizza: 1) waterfront Pizza, 2) Ferino’s Pizzeria, Port Hadlock, 3) Lanza’s Ristorante.

Best Sandwich: 1) Jordini’s on the water, 2) Farm’s Reach Café, Chimacum, 3) Owl Sprit Café.

Best Seafood: 1) ajax Café, Port Hadlock, 2) Fins Coastal Cuisine, 3) Scampi & Halibuts Seafood Grill, Port Hadlock.

Best Service: 1) Bayview Restaurant, 2) Tie: Blue Moose Café and Mean Bean Coffee Co. Best Soup: 1) Bayview Restaurant, 2) Owl Sprit Café, 3) Farm’s Reach Café, Chimacum.

Best Steak: 1) ajax Café, Port Hadlock, 2) Silverwater Café, 3) The Belmont.

Best Takeout: 1) 1-2-3 Thai Food, 2) Khu Larb Thai, 3) Burgers Landing, Port Hadlock.

Most Food for the Buck: 1) Blue Moose Café, 2) Chimacum Café, 3) 1-2-3 Thai Food.

Most Romantic: 1) Lanza’s Ristorante, 2) ajax Café, Port Hadlock, 3) Silverwater Café.

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Port Townsend’s Only Remaining 1880’s Waterfront Restaurant and Saloon

Soup

The Belmont Clam Chowder Northwest-style cream chowder, housemade.

Lobster Bisque with Sherry

Appetizers

Grilled Portabello Mushroom Marinated in sherry, soy and rice vinegar.

Crispy Calamari Dusted with flour, herbs and spices, served with raspberry dijon dipping sauce.

Fresh Dungeness Crab Cocktail Served with wasabi cocktail sauce.

Dungeness Crab and Artichoke Dip Served piping hot with crostini.

Dungeness Crab Cakes Pan-seared with lemon cucumber sauce.

Washington Manila Clams or Mediterranean Mussels One pound of clams, mussels or a combination of both poached in pesto cream broth.

Fresh Pacific Northwest Oysters Freshly shucked on the half-shell with wasabi cocktail sauce.

Entrée Salads

Fresh Dungeness Crab Louie Traditional-style with egg, tomato, cucumber and Thousand Island dressing.

Traditional, Chicken or Shrimp Caesar Romaine lettuce, parmesan, croutons and housemade Caesar dressing.

Sesame Chicken Salad Chilled romaine lettuce, crispy won tons, mushrooms, peanuts and Oriental dressing.

Cobb Salad Mounds of chicken, bay shrimp, blue cheese crumbles, bacon, tomatoes and egg with mixed greens.

Belmont Salad Baby greens with Granny Smith apples, walnuts, blue cheese and balsamic vinaigrette dressing.

Pastas

Wild Mushrooms and Pasta Portabello, button mushrooms with sun-dried tomatoes, fresh basil, onions and Marinara sauce.

Wild Salmon with Pasta Grilled fillet served atop pasta with wild mushroom sauce.

Pan-Fried Oysters Freshly shucked oysters dusted in flour, herbs and Goat Cheese Linguine spices and served with wasabi cocktail sauce.

Sautéed with wild salmon, prawns, scallops, fresh spinach, mushrooms and sun-dried tomatoes.

Oysters Rockefeller Fresh shucked and baked with spinach, Pan Seared Fresh Scallops parmesan cheese, bacon and Ouzo Liqueur.

Sautéed with linguine, pancetta, shallots and Tuaca Liqueur and finished with créme fresche.

Recommend by Best Places

Hot & Spicy Chicken Fettuccine Chicken breast sautéed with spicy Philippine-style sauce, tossed with egg fettuccine.

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Hot Sandwiches

Seafood

Crab & Artichoke Sandwich Dungeness crab, artichokes, onions and three cheeses baked open-faced on Italian Panini bread.

Pacific Cod & Chips Beer-battered and served with our onion tartar sauce and French fries.

Old Fashioned French Dip Thinly sliced roast beef on a French roll served with au jus dipping broth.

Stuffed Sole Baked Dover sole stuffed with dungeness crab, onions, artichokes and cheese.

One-Half Pound Belmont Burger Charbroiled and served with your choice of Swiss, Cheddar or blue cheese, sautéed onions or mushrooms.

Salmon En Papillote Baked in parchment paper with fresh vegetables and a lemon, caper, garlic and artichoke aioli.

Cuban Press Sandwich Shredded pork, sautéed onions, Swiss cheese, dill pickles and stone ground mustard aioli.

Cioppino Salmon, halibut, clams, mussels and prawns simmered in our housemade Italian tomato saffron sauce.

Vashon Island’s Pastrami Reuben Baked on marbled rye with old world sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and Thousand Island dressing.

Sockeye Salmon & Dungeness Crab Broiled fillet topped with Dungeness crab and sauce Béarnaise.

Poultry & Meats

Chicken Dijon Oven-baked with Black Forest ham, Swiss and parmesan cheeses, herbs and stone-ground dijon mustard sauce.

Chicken Oscar Fresh chicken breast, pan roasted, topped with Dungeness Crab. Served with fresh asparagus and Sauce Béarnaise.

Pan Roasted Duck Breasts With natural jus and bing cherries.

3 Masted Filet Mignon 4 oz. choice Filet Mignon, topped with fresh Dungeness Crab and Sauce Béarnaise and 3 prawns, grilled with garlic and olive oil.

Tournedos Maison Pan-roasted choice Filet Mignon topped with dungeness crab, sauce Béarnaise and wild mushroom armagnac demi-glaze.

16-oz Choice Angus Ribeye Steak With Belmont herb butter.

6 oz. Filet Mignon with Blue Cheese Chargrilled and served with balsamic caramelized onions and covered with hazelnut smoked Oregon blue cheese.

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Bikes, beaches, berries

If you come to Jefferson County to get away, you’ll likely pass through the Tri-Area, made up of the small, unincorporated communities of Port Hadlock, Irondale and Chimacum, with access to Marrowstone Island.

At first glance, the scene can be deceiving.

Yes, there are rolling farmlands, but look more closely and you’ll discover a treasure trove of parks as well as farm stands.

At the four-way stop in Chimacum, note the welcoming sign that greets visitors: “Food from Here.” The Chimacum Corner Farmstand is a wealth of local produce and meats, as well as information.

The Chimacum Valley (and nearby Beaver and Center valleys) once was home to many dairy farms. Many of them no longer exist, but produce and livestock farming are making a comeback. Check out the 2013 Farm Tour on Sept. 15 for a grand tour of farms (county.wsu. edu/Jefferson).

If you don’t have a Discover Pass which allows you to park in state parks, this area is rich with some of the best free parks Jefferson County has to offer.

One of the biggest and best is H.J. Carroll Park, which is located along Highway 19 near the Chimacum High School. The day-use facility has a BMX bike track, horseshoe pits, hard-surface basketball court, softball diamond, a playfield, restrooms, a walking path, picnic shelters and a trail to Chimacum Creek. This is a great place to stop and picnic.

Close by, Anderson Lake State Park, which requires a Discover Pass, and Gibbs Lake County Park are two Tri-Area parks popular with mountain bike riders. At Anderson Lake, five of the six trail systems are open to bikes.

In Port Hadlock, Irondale was the site of an ore- and steel-processing mill from the 1880s to 28 ❚ 2013 Getaway

Finnriver Farm and Cidery, located off Center Valley Road, is expecting a good blueberry-picking season for 2013. Blueberries typically ripen around the Fourth of July. Look for other U-pick opportunities at farms throughout the countryside. Photo by Allison Arthur

1912. Few signs of the historic buildings remain, but you can check out the waterfront at Irondale Beach Park. Bring your kayak to navigate along Chimacum Creek.

Port Hadlock was named after Samuel Hadlock, who established the lumber mill town in 1867. Today, Lower Hadlock is the waterfront site of the growing Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding campus. There is a selfguided tour, and people are welcome to come to the school between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., MondayFriday. For more details, call 360-385-4948.

Highway 116 takes you across Portage Canal Bridge to Indian and Marrowstone islands. Naval Magazine Indian Island is home to the U.S. Navy’s most strategic

ordnance storage facility on the West Coast – supply ships, warships and submarines come and go from the area.

Marrowstone Island’s offerings include Mystery Bay, Nordland and historic Fort Flagler State Park, a great location for camping, picnics, flying kites, boating, biking and beach walks.

Don’t miss making a pit stop at the quaint, one-of-a-kind Nordland General Store, which is a hub for the Marrowstone community and a great place to buy ice cream and coffee – or some other locally made treat, such as goat cheese.

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Take a moment to slip into retirement life and enjoy Port Ludlow and its resort community.

You’ll be busy.

The resort and retirement community is easy to reach – only a ferry ride and 45 miles from downtown Seattle.

There are more than 200 days of sunshine a year in Port Ludlow, which is one reason it’s a popular destination on the Olympic Peninsula.

Hiking trails, fly-fishing and a 300-slip marina with on-the-water opportunities for those who aren’t boat owners create a perfect trifecta of outdoor activities.

The 18-hole Port Ludlow Golf Course draws golfers for a pleasant day trip or overnight stay, with a championship-quality course and awesome views. It is open to the public.

Rounding out the reasons to stop and sit a spell – or get hiking, biking or kayaking – is the Resort at Port Ludlow. The well-appointed 37-unit Inn at Port Ludlow includes meeting space for conferences, weddings and other events. Pacific Northwest cuisine is served at the Fireside Restaurant, which has the largest restaurant wine cellar in the area.

Everyone is welcome at Festival by the Bay, held this year on July 26-28, with family games, vendors, music, food, golf, tennis and other entertainment. The Port Ludlow Festival Association gives festival proceeds to the Chimacum Schools Education Foundation and Olympic Community Action Programs. See plvoice.org for details.

Port Ludlow is an active community, with residential neighborhood associations in South Bay and North Bay. Mix with the locals on the five-mile Timberton Trail Loop off Paradise Bay Road on Timberton Drive. Numbered rocks along the trail help orient hikers.

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Members of the Yesango Marimba Ensemble, Ja Wallin (front) and Dancer Flowergrowing (behind her), delighted the 2012 Festival by the Bay audience with the intricate rhythms of Shona-style music performed on marimbas. Photo by Megan Claflin

Ludlow Falls Interpretive Trail; parking is available at Port Ludlow Village Center. North Bay offers the Rainier Loop Trail.

The Port Ludlow Fly Fishing Club has improved Teal Lake Park, located in the woods south of town. The park’s fishing dock is wheelchair-accessible.

Birding is something people enjoy both intentionally and by happenstance; look for the red-necked grebe, Pacific loon, surf scooter and our majestic osprey, bald eagles and great blue herons.

The town’s business center is known as Port Ludlow Village. Check out the Friday Farmers Market. It opens May 31 in a parking lot near the resort.

Port Ludlow was founded in 1842 by explorer Charles Wilkes and named for naval officer Augustus C. Ludlow. The first lumber mill was built in 1852 and was acquired 27 years later by

Andrew Jackson Pope and William C. Talbot.

Ludlow was a mill town until 1935. Wooden sailing ships also were built here.

Port Ludlow became a master planned resort community in 1968 and has appeared on many “best places to retire” lists. It is also a pleasant place to live while commuting to work on “the other side” and a destination that’s well worth a visit.

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Port Angeles to Victoria ferry Coho ferry terminal

WEST Visitor Info Centers Olympic National Park Visitor Center 3002 Mount Angeles Road, Port Angeles, WA 98362 360-565-3130 nps.gov/olym Forks Chamber of Commerce (Twilight tour center) 360-374-2531 forkswa.com Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center 121 Railroad Ave., Port Angeles, WA 98362 360-452-2363 portangeles.org Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce 1192 E. Washington St., Sequim, WA 98382 360-683-6197, 800-737-8462 sequimchamber.com

Check the Tide When the tide is out, the table is set. When the tide comes in, you could be trapped. For your safety, consult a tide table.

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From Port Townsend Sequim 35 miles Port Angeles 47 miles Hurricane Ridge 68 miles Victoria, B.C. 73 miles Forks 102 miles La Push 120 miles Neah Bay 122 miles Kalaloch Beach 129 miles Hoh Rain Forest 138 miles Lake Quinault 165 miles

Finding tsunami debris from Japan The Japan Tsunami Marine Debris Joint Information Center (disasterdebris.wordpress. com) is a collaborative effort between U.S. and Canadian agencies to manage marine debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

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Quilcene Visitor Center (North Hood Canal Chamber of Commerce) Located in Olympic National Forest’s Quilcene Ranger District Office, 295142 U.S. Highway 101 P.O. Box 774, Quilcene, WA 98376 360-765-4999 visitorcenter@embarqmail.com emeraldtowns.com

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Brinnon Visitor Center (North Hood Canal Chamber of Commerce) 306144 U.S. Highway 101, Brinnon, WA 98320 360-796-4350 visitorcenter@embarqmail.com emeraldtowns.com

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The state Emergency Management Division has a pole-mounted siren system deployed throughout Washington’s coast and some inland waterways.

Please note the blue roadside “evacuation route” signs leading to higher ground.

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There is so much to experience along North Hood Canal in Jefferson County, and here are five surefire attractions for visitors and locals alike: 1) Fresh shellfish. Quilcene is the pearl of the Olympic Peninsula. Hood Canal oysters, clams, geoducks and shrimp are famous worldwide. Dig from the beaches or pick from the menu; look for them on the Olympic Culinary Loop.

2) Outdoor music. This is the 30th season for Olympic Music Festival’s “Concerts in the Barn” series at a farm north of Quilcene. There is also the Linger Longer Outdoor Theater, opened in 2012 in proposed 10-acre Worthington Park, next to the Quilcene Historical Society Museum.

3) Thanks to the Emerald Towns Alliance, the Brinnon ShrimpFest returns for Memorial Day weekend in 2013 with a new location, about three miles north of town along U.S. Highway 101.

4) Reserve ahead for a camping spot at popular Dosewallips State Park, along the river in Brinnon, a great home base for scuba diving, shellfishing, fishing, boating or Olympic Mountain outings. While in Brinnon, be sure to visit Whitney Gardens & Nursery.

5) Cruise to Quilcene to find the peninsula’s largest ice cream cones. Special events include the seventh Olympic Art Festival on May 25 at Olympic Art Gallery; and a wine and beer tasting on Aug. 8 as a benefit for the Quilcene Historical Museum. The Quilcene Community Fair weekend begins on Sept. 15 and includes a fun run, a parade, an antler show and a season-ending car show that features a tire burnout demonstration.

Hood Canal is the only natural fjord on America’s West Coast south of Alaska, and boaters must take changing tides – and U.S. Navy test-range craft – into account.

New this year, a Quilcene “Oyster Run” half-marathon, 10K and 5K events are Saturday, Sept. 28, quilcenehalfmarathon.com.

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The Linger Longer Outdoor Theater, at proposed Worthington Park, opened in 2012 as a venue next to the Quilcene Historical Museum. Photo by Harry von Stark

Quilcene’s beach and offshore float at the public swimming area next to Herb Beck Marina.

Pleasant Harbor Marina, just south of Brinnon, has a 285-slip, deep-water facility offering transient and permanent moorage. There is a state boat launch at Triton Cove, near the Jefferson County/Mason County line.

Elwell P. Brinnon built the first homestead along the Duckabush River about six miles south of present-day Brinnon, in a time when ferries served the canal. Rivers pouring from the Olympic Mountains may offer excellent fishing, but they’re too rugged for water sports.

A herd of Roosevelt elk is part of the landscape and has been know to make highway crossings. Don’t be timid when confronted with

a geoduck.

Check out the National Fish Hatchery (open to the public) along Highway 101.

Be sure to access Olympic National Forest trails and scenic (gravel road) drives. Enjoy a panoramic view of Puget Sound from 2,730-foot Mount Walker with a two-mile hike or on a drive along a gravel road that’s OK for most cars, but not for RVs or trailers.

Public restrooms and other services are available at the Brinnon Visitor Center (360796-4350), the Hood Canal Ranger District Quilcene office (360-765-2200), just south of Quilcene, which doubles as the North Hood Canal Visitor Center (360-765-4999).

So whether you make the effort to bike the highway, hike to the top of 6,280-foot Mount Townsend, or explore the bottom of Hood Canal with your shrimp pot or in your diving gear, have fun!

Dosewallips State Park reservations 360-796-4415 secure.camis.com/wa/home.aspx Quilcene Visitor Center North Hood Canal Chamber of Commerce emeraldtowns.com

Bonnie Story is proud to show off the biggest turnip at the Quilcene Fair, which happened to come from her local garden.

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Port Townsend has built a reputation as the West Coast’s wooden boat capital, thanks to the sailors, shipwrights and associated craftspeople – and dreamers.

When it comes to wooden boats, here are five things you should know: 1) Traditional boatbuilding skills are learned at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock, a world-class center. Tours are available.

2) The Northwest Maritime Center/Wooden Boat Foundation’s annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival this Sept. 6-8 draws several hundred wooden boats, from kayaks to tugs.

3) Check out the Northwest Maritime Center (NWMC) – the big yellow and red buildings along Port Townsend’s waterfront.

Walk into the boat shop and look around, ask about informational and instructional classes, rowing and sailing programs.

4) Visit the Pilot House upstairs in the NWMC, which is home to a marine simulator, the same navigational equipment as that used on the commercial freighters passing through Admiralty Inlet.

5) Walk the docks at Point Hudson Marina and the Port of Port Townsend Boat Haven. Ask questions; that is the only way a landlubber learns the ways of the sea.

Here is the Wooden Boat Foundation’s description of classic wooden vessels seen year-round on Port Townsend Bay:

Cutter A single-masted sailing boat with multiple headsails. (English origin, from boats used to cut off smugglers between England and France in the 1800s.)

Ketch

Human-Powered Vessels

Primarily built for rowing propulsion and designed to accommodate oars, paddles or sculls. Examples include rowing shells, canoes, kayaks and rowboats.

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Motor Vessels

A two-masted sailing boat with the steering rudder and station behind both masts. (Middle English cache, from cacchen, to catch.)

Propelled by motor, with gasoline, diesel or electric engines.

Workboats

Heavily built hulls, capable of handling rough seas.

Yawl A two-masted sailing boat, with larger mast forward and the aft mast (called the mizzen mast) behind the steering rudder and station. (Dutch jol, possibly from Low German jolle.)

Schooner A sailing boat with multiple sails and two to seven masts. Aft mast is taller than forward mast(s). (Named and made popular in Colonial America.)

Sloop A single-masted sailing boat with a single headsail. (Dutch sloep, from Middle Dutch slupen, to glide.)

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Touch our history Take advantage of your getaway in Jefferson County by checking out our history with a visit to one of our museums.

Quilcene Historical Museum is at 151 E. Columbia, at the intersection of Center Road, in Quilcene. New exhibits feature Brinnon, Native Americans, millinery, shellfish, the military and businesses. Hours are 1-5 p.m., Friday-Monday, from April to Sept. 22.

Admission is by donation. 360-765-4848.

Fort Flagler State Park Museum explains the history of Fort Flagler (est.

1899) on Marrowstone Island, a former U.S. Army Coast Artillery post. There are guided tours of historical hospital and gun emplacements (May-September); the museum is actively collecting relevant artifacts, photographs and documents.

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U.S. Coast Guard revenue cutters, circa 1892, along the Port Townsend waterfront, the jumping-off point for Bering Sea patrols against illegal whaling activities. Jefferson County Historical Society Collection

Admission is by donation. Call park office at 360-385-3701.

LOOKING BACK (from the pages of the Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader) 1893: “Port Townsend is the natural and the undisputed headquarters of all shipping on Puget Sound” reads a self-promotion ad that listed the city’s other natural attributes: headquarters of all foreign counsels, fishing industry, tugboats, port of entry and terminus for all Alaska steamships.

1893: “One of Mrs. Myer’s milk delivery wagons met with an accident on the east end of Jefferson Street. The horse sank in soft sand undermined by water. Portions of the curb and gutter were sawed away so the uninjured horse could be removed.”

1943: The Port Townsend High School student newspaper reports on the latest fashion worn by “California boys” new in town. “As you know, these boys have been wearing levi outfits, or as we call them, dungarees and jackets. They really aren’t as strange as we think, for they are the style of all the boys in California.”

1968: The city Planning Commission says Port Townsend isn’t ready for tourism, although it’s recognized as “the greatest potential industry here.” Member Mary Johnson (our top historic preservation award today is named in her honor) said, “We don’t want to get the honkytonk aspect. We want it to develop where the community image is protected, with beauty and dignity.”

Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum is in Building 201 at Fort Worden State Park.

Showcasing the military history of Fort Worden (est. 1902), it also covers the site’s post-military years. The nonprofit, volunteerstaffed museum is open year around. Hours: 11 a.m.-4 p.m., with extended Saturday hours, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., in June, July and August.

Nominal admission fee. Group tours by appointment. Tours of the harbor-entrance control post (on Artillery Hill) offered on Saturdays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., in summer, by donation. 360-385-0373.

Port Townsend Marine Science Center is on the beach at Fort Worden State Park.

The PTMSC offers the Marine Exhibit (ME) on the pier and the Natural History Exhibit (NHE) on the shore, with a special orca exhibit. The Foss Maritime Discovery Lab involves students and adults in research, addressing nearshore environmental issues.

The NHE is the result of a partnership with the Burke Museum in Seattle and Washington State Parks, and includes fossils and exhibits of cliff geology, glaciers, diving birds and sands from across the globe. ME features touch pools and aquaria. Hours vary by season. Paid admission. 360-385-5582.

Jefferson Art and History Museum is in Port Townsend’s historic City Hall, 540 Water St. Check out the gift shop. Museum hours

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are 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday in January-February, and daily during the rest of the year. Paid admission; special “passport” rates give admission to all three museums managed by the County Historical Society. 360-385-1003.

Rothschild House State Park is a historic home with original furnishings of the Rothschild family (1868-1954). Hours are 11 a.m.-4 p.m. daily, May through September, at Jefferson and Taylor streets in Port Townsend. Paid admission. Staffed

by Jefferson County Historical Society. 360-385-1003.

Commanding Officer’s Quarters (1904) overlooks the water at Fort Worden State Park. The furnishings reflect life at the fort circa 1910. Managed by Jefferson County Historical Society. Open 11 a.m-5 p.m. daily, May-September; noon-5 p.m. weekends, October-November and March-April. Paid admission.

Group tours and special openings can be arranged. 360-385-1003.

Jefferson County Historical Society Research Center is the place to look up family and property histories, view photos and investigate a library of genealogical resources.

The center is shared by the Jefferson County Genealogical Society at 13692 Airport Cutoff Road (State Route 19), about five miles south of Port Townsend. Hours are 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday (except third Saturday of the month, noon-4). Paid admission. 360-379-6673.

Kelly Art Deco Light Museum, the only known American Art Deco lighting museum in the world, is open daily, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. On exhibit at the free museum are rare, one-of-a-kind Art Deco fixtures selected from a 30-year collection of more than 2,000. Located in the Kelly Building, 2000 Sims Way, Port Townsend. 360-379-9030.

Port Townsend Aero Museum provides work-based opportunities for youths and young adults, and restores, flies and displays antique aircraft at Jefferson County International Airport, six miles south of Port Townsend. Hours are 9 a.m.4 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday.

Paid admission. 360-379-5244.

Elaine Lopeman won the 1966 Port Townsend Salmon Derby with a 30-pound king salmon. Leader Collection photo

Local Area Routes & Annual Events Schedule Fort Worden State Park

PORT TOWNSEND Northwest Maritime Center - ROUTE #11 A&B Jefferson County Fairgrounds - ROUTE #3 North Beach - ROUTE #3 HJ Carrol Park - ROUTE #6, A&B Port Townsend/Coupeville Ferry - ROUTE #11 A&B Peninsula College - ROUTE #2 WSU Extension - ROUTE #6, A&B Jefferson County Courthouse - ROUTE #2 Antiquing • Shops - ROUTE #11, A&B Haller Fountain - ROUTE #2 Manresa Castle - ROUTE #3

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Rothchild House State Park - ROUTE #2 Jefferson County Historical Society Museum ROUTE #11 A&B JEFFERSON COUNTY & BEYOND Fort Worden State Park - ROUTE #2 Dosewallips State Park - ROUTE #1 Victoria BC - ROUTE #8* Seatac Airport - ROUTE #7* Fort Townsend Hood Canal Floating Bridge - ROUTE #7 State Park Point Hudson Marina - ROUTE #11 A&B Irondale Beach Park - ROUTE #6 A&B

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SEASONAL EVENTS Port Townsend Film Festival - September Wooden Boat Festival - September Rhododendron Festival - May Victorian Festival - March Centrum: Fiddle, & Blues, Fort Worden FortJazz Flagler State Park Check our website: jeffersontransit.com for event routes and schedules * requires additional routing

Mystery Bay State Park

PA SSES Must be 18 or younger

Anderson Lake Unlimited ride from Memorial Day - Labor Day $20 Can be used on Jefferson, Clallam, Mason & Grays Harbor Transit. No out of county surcharge. State Park

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All pets must be on a lease and under control. All other agencies require pets to be in a carrier, except for service animals. Plan ahead and take your pet to the park on public transportation.

360-385-4777 • 1-800-371-0497 • www.jeffersontransit.com The Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader

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MARROWSTONE ISLAND is the home of protected harbors, wild beaches, Fort Flagler State Park, a public boat launch and a quaint country store.

Events

• Tractor Days on Memorial Day Sunday – a celebration of Marrowstone’s rural heritage.

• Strawberry Festival, June 15 – sponsored by the Marrowstone Island Community Association.

• Harvest Festival, October – good old fashioned country fun at the Nordland General store.

• Annual Polar Bear Dip – Jan. 1.

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Olympic Culinary Loop Experience Olympic Coast Cuisine - all within reach of Highway 101 in Washington State!

Find destinations featuring fresh and delicious culinary treats, chef-quality local recipes and culinary news, as well as information and assistance.

The OLYMPIC CULINARY LOOP is a group of people who grow, harvest, catch and ultimately serve you the Peninsula’s bounty that we call Olympic Coast Cuisine. Experiencing all that’s local is an adventure, and for many a first time experience.

Olympic Culinary Adventure Map

Several festivals throughout the year celebrate the Peninsula’s culinary abundance and visitors are encouraged to join in the fun. These include the North Sound Wineries’ Red Wine & Chocolate Tour in February; the Lavender Festival in July; the Jefferson and Clallam County Farm tours in September and October, respectively; the Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival in October; and A Taste of the Peninsula in November. www.olympicculinaryloop.com 42 ❚ 2013 GeTaway

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PORT LUDLOW is home to waterfront dining and a b outique Inn at the Resort at Port Ludlow. The well-protected bay is a welcome anchorage and includes a full service marina.

Championship golf, miles of hiking trails and a thriving arts community complete the scene.

Events

• Port Ludlow Farmer’s Market – Fridays, May through September, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Village Center at Oak Bay & Paradise Bay Roads. Features fresh produce and crafts.

• Festival by the Bay, July 27, 28, 29 – A three day event with craft booths, art gallery, car show, food court, tennis event, golf tournament, fun on the water, live music and fireworks.

PORT HADLOCK comes in two parts, upper and lower.

Lower Port Hadlock is home to the Ajax Café and the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building. Upper Hadlock is the commercial center, with grocery stores, restaurants, hardware and the iconic Valley Tavern.

The towns of Port Hadlock, Irondale and the Chimacum Valley, known locally as the tri-area, blend old town history and a past steeped in natural resource production with a growing population of small scale farmers revisiting authentic ways to produce food in a modern world.

Come stroll the docks at the marina and enjoy the beauties of historic Port Hadlock and its surroundings.

CHIMACUM is the agricultural heart of Jefferson County. The rich valley farm land supports wineries, cideries, blueberries, and a wide range of produce.

Check out the offerings at the Chimacum Corner Farm stand, which is stocked to the gills with local treats.

Events

For more • Chimacum Farmer’s Market – information Sundays, May to October, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Located at the crossroads of Highway 19 and Chimacum Road. Features fresh produce, crafts and live music.

• Jefferson County Farm Tour Come celebrate a decade of farm fresh (& free!) fun at the 11th annual Jefferson County Farm Tour! Sunday, Sept. 15. The 2013 tour boasts more than a dozen working farms, specializing in everything from hard cider to kale, goat’s milk and magical soil. From 10am-4pm our local farmers have tractor load of live music, educational demonstrations and darn tasty food planned for you. Load up the family wagon, hop on your bicycle, or join a raucous carpool at the Farm Tour Central: on Sunday, September 15th you’ll want to be heading to the fields! On your way out be sure to stop by the Farm Tour Central (Chimacum Corner Farm Stand) for a map of the farms, some carpool companions, a ticket to the grand raffle and other farm fun. jefferson.wsu.edu

www.visitjeffersoncountywa.com • 360-385-7869 The Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader

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Wild, wonderful From the comfort of your car, when in your hiking boots or while enjoying a jaunt on the beach, enjoy and respect our wild friends – on land, in the sea and in the air throughout the Olympic Peninsula.

For children, a good place to start is the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, located at Fort Worden State Park. The center showcases an articulated whale skeleton and offers education about marine wildlife.

The center also offers cruises to Protection Island, a federal bird sanctuary that 85 bird species call home, along with sea lions and elephant seals. Along the beach, please stay away from seal pups. The mama seals often leave their pups (spotted skin) alone for up to 24 hours. Do not worry, and do not touch or move the pups.

Orca whales are the largest mammals around. Puget Sound Express operates a passenger ferry out of Point Hudson with more than 30 years of whale-watching expertise. A trip on the water brings you up close to it all.

Recreational fishing, shrimping, crabbing and clam digging, and hunting opportunities abound – just don’t forget to get your appropriate Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife licenses.

The first four-legged wild creatures you may encounter are black-tailed deer. Yes, sometimes their fur seems shaggy and in poor condition. Yes, the “city deer” in Port Townsend are everywhere (the dog leash law is enforced), and that is why many gardens are protected by tall fences.

Although you probably won’t see cougars and bobcats, be advised they are around.

There are no recent cases of humans here being attacked by cougars, but domestic livestock (including cows, goats and sheep) have been stalked and killed.

The Roosevelt elk (males sometimes weigh 1,000 pounds) here are part of the nation’s largest unmanaged herd. The Dungeness/ Dosewallips herd ranges from Brinnon along 44 ❚ 2013 Getaway

A red octopus dubbed R2 laid eggs at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center in 2012. They began hatching, much to the delight of visitors. The center is at Fort Worden State Park and has lots to see.

Photo by Al McCleese

Hood Canal to the meadows around Sequim.

Elk tend to stay in the lowlands in the winter and move to the high country in summer.

Black bears here are strictly black – no brown varieties, as seen in other ranges. They usually stick to the forests, venturing into the meadows near the timberline in summer.

About 300 mountain goats live in Olympic National Park. Be wary: A hiker died in 2010

after being attacked and gored by an aggressive ram near Hurricane Ridge. It was the only known fatal attack in the park’s history.

Those mangy-looking dogs you may see are actually coyotes. It is not uncommon to see coyotes within the city limits in Port Townsend.

They won’t bother you, but your small dog or cat could be at risk if left to roam alone.

A word to the wise – do not feed the raccoons. They are not your friends, and once they get a taste of human food (or cat food) they will keep coming back to demand more. Be alert for these campsite intruders that know how to open coolers.

Bird watching is a year-round attraction here, thanks to our location on a migratory flyway. (Please, do not disturb beach birds, as they may be nesting.) American bald eagles are common across the Olympic Peninsula. Eagle populations have strengthened over the past few years. Throughout the Pacific Northwest, gulls and other bird colonies have taken a hit as eagles target eggs and chicks. There are plenty of glaucous-winged gulls around here. Gull excrement is highly acidic and eats through the clear coat on a vehicle’s paint job, so it is wise to remove droppings as soon as possible.

Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife Licensing information wdfw.wa.gov

A snowy owl blends into the Arctic tundra, but stands out around Puget Sound. This snowy owl spent time at the Point Hudson jetty on the Port Townsend waterfront. Photo by Patrick J. Sullivan The Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader

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PT Hotels & Motels Aladdin Motor Inn • 2333 Washington St, PT 98368 • 360-385-3747 • 800-281-3747 • www.aladdinmotorinnpt.com A Suite at the Fountain • 914 Washington St, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-643-1370 • www.fountainsuite.com Ann Starrett Mansion • 744 Clay St, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-385-3205 • 800-321-0644 • www.starrettmansion.com Belmont, The • 925 Water St, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-385-3007 • www.thebelmontpt.com Bishop Victorian Hotel, The • 714 Washington St, PT 98368 • 360-385-6122 • 800-824-4738 • www.bishopvictorian.com Fort Worden State Park Conference Center • 200 Battery Way, PT 98368 • 360-344-4434 • www.parks.wa.gov Harborside Inn • 330 Benedict St, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-385-7909 • 800-942-5960 • www.harborside-inn.com Manresa Castle • 7th & Sheridan St, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-385-5750 • 800-732-1281 • www.manresacastle.com Palace Hotel • 1004 Water St, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-385-0773 • 800-962-0741 • www.palacehotelpt.com Port Townsend Inn • 2020 Washington St, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-385-2211 • 800-216-4985 • www.porttownsendinn.com Swan Hotel, The • 216 Monroe St, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-385-1718 • 800-824-4738 • www.theswanhotel.com Tides Inn • 1807 Water St, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-385-0595 • 800-822-8696 • www.tides-inn.com Washington Hotel • 825 Washington St, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-774-0213 • www.accommodationsandmore.com Waterstreet Hotel • 635 Water St, PT 98368 • 360-385-5467 • 800-735-9810 • www.waterstreethotelporttownsend.com

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A Bungalow on the Bluff • 303 Fillmore St, PT 98368 • 800-385-1238 • www.porttownsendgetaway.com A Garden Cottage • 112 Umatilla Ave, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-643-3210 • www.gardencottagegetaway.com Bartlett House Cottage • 314 Polk Street, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-381-0395 · www.bartletthousecottagept.com Big Red Barn • 309 V St, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-774-0213 • www.bigredbarngetaway.com Dell’s Guesthouse at North Beach • 510 56th St, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-385-3783 • delnorthbeach@olympus.net Hammond House Cottage • 834 Pierce St, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-385-6269 • www.olypen.com/glb/hammond Holcomb Hideaway • 1823 Holcomb St, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-531-0611 • www.homeaway.com/903721 Inn at Waterfront Place • 632A Waterfront Place, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-385-6957 • www.innatwaterfrontplace.com Katie’s Kottage • 475 W St, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-379-8261 • www.katieskottage.info Lookout, The • 419 Lawrence St, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-774-1904 · thelookoutpt.com Morgan Hill Guest House • 606 Roosevelt St, PT 98368 • 360-385-2536 • 800-490-9070 • www.morganhillgetaways.com Pilot’s Seaside Cottage • 327 Jackson St, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-531-3968 • www.pilotscottage.com Rainshadow Tourist Home • 609 58th St, Port Townsend, 98368 • 360-531-0022 • rainshadowpt.com Loft • 306 Lincoln St, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-385-1626 • www.home.olympus.net/~sealoft Turtle Island View Room · 333 Fir St, Port Townsend 98368 · 360-531-0996 · www.airbnb.com/rooms/522201

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Adelma Beach Cabin • 262 Adelma Beach Rd, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-774-0213 • adelmabeach.com open May to Sept 2 Aerie House, 223 Aerie Lane, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-379-5779 • vacationhomerentals.com/59266 Amber Lights B&B • 4042 Hastings Ave. W. Port Townsend 98368 • 360-390-5712 • amberlightsbedandbreakfast.com.

Alegria Guest House • 4934 SR20, Port Townsend 98368 360-379-3695 maitemcluen@gmail.com An Inn Between • 5825 Old Gardiner Rd, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-379-8125 Arcadia West Guest Nest • 389A Arcadia West, Port Townsend 98368 •360-381-5099 • www.vrbo.com/268004 A Wolves’ Den • 269 N Jacob Miller Rd, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-316-9174 • www.winterchill-farm.com Bay Cottage • 4346 S. Discovery Rd, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-385-2035 • www.baycottagegetaway.com Beach Cottages on Marrowstone • 10 Beach Dr, Nordland 98358 • 800-871-3077 • www.beachcottagegetaway.com Beach Getaway on Oak Bay • 101 Oak Rd, Port Hadlock 98339 • 360-437-7791 • www.beachgetawayonoakbay.com Cabins at Treefrog Woods • 1280 Cape George Rd, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-379-0906 • www.peninsulasportsman.com Cabin on the Canal • Near Pleasant Harbor Marina, Brinnon 98320 • 206-782-3868 • www.cabinonthecanal.com Chevy Chase Beach Cabins • 3710 S. Discovery Rd, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-385-1270 • www.chevychasebeachcabins.com Chimacum Ridge Lodge • 1505 Center Rd. Chimacum 98325 • 877-360-6224 • www.chimacumridgelodge.com Cottage on Discovery Bay • 4394 Discovery Road, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-774-0213 • www.accommodationsandmore.com Cove RV Park • 303075 Highway 101, Brinnon 98320 • 360-796-4723 coverv.com Crow’s Nest Cabin • 5073 Flagler Rd, Nordland 98358 • 360-385-4920 • www.ptgetaways.com Dabob Bay Cottage • 840 Piper Rd, Quilcene 98376 • 360-765-3947 • www.dabobbaycottage.com Elk Meadows • 3485 Dosewallips Rd, Brinnon 98320 • 360-796-4886 • www.elkmeadowswa.com.

Eaglemount Rockery Cottages/Motel • 1822 SR 20, PT 98368 • 360-379-8922 • www.eaglemtrockerycottages.com Fairmount Beach House • 1071 Fairmount Rd, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-385-2480 www.vacationhomerentals.com/41811 Fort Flagler State Park Retreat Center • 10541 Flagler Rd, Nordland 98358 • 360-385-3701 • www.parks.wa.gov Hadlock Motel • 181 Chimacum Rd, Port Hadlock 98339 • 360-385-3111 • 888-360-3111 • www.hadlockmotel.com Harbor House • 309257 Hwy 101, Brinnon 98320 • 360-796-4064 • 360-951-5366 • www.theharborhouse.virtualave.net Houseboats4Two • 308913 Hwy 101, Brinnon 98320 • 360-796-3440 • 800-966-5942 • www.houseboats4two.com Mount Walker Inn • PO Box 144, 61 Maple Grove Rd. Quilcene 98376 • 360-765-3410 • www.mountwalkerinn.com Olympic Vacation Rentals • 57 E. Arden St., Port Hadlock 98339 • 360-301-1344 • www.olympicvacationrental.weebly.com Paradise Bay Beach Cabin Vacation Rental • 3491 Paradise Bay Rd., Port Ludlow 98365 • 888-399-6533 • www.BayRental.info.

Paula’s Beach House • near South Point Road, Port Ludlow 98365 • 360-710-7868 • fishtalesvacationrentals.com Pleasant Harbor Marina House B&B• 308913 Hwy 101, Brinnon 98320 • 360-796-4611 • 800-547-3479 • www.pleasantharbormarina.com Port Ludlow Vacation Rentals • Admiralty I Condominiums, Port Ludlow 98365 • 206-992-6036 • www.portludlowvacationrentals.com Protection Bluff Retreat • 780 McMinn, Port Townsend 98368 • 360-385-7459 • www.airbnb.com/rooms/185295 Solstice Farm B&B • PO Box 133, Chimacum 98325 • 360-732-0174 • www.solsticefarmstay.com The Resort At Port Ludlow • One Heron Rd, Port Ludlow 98365 • 360-437-7000 • 877-805-0868 • www.portludlowresort.com Triton Cove Beach Home • in Brinnon, WA. • 253-820-0243 • • www.tritoncovebeachhome.com Windermere Vacation Rentals • PO Box 770, Brinnon 98320 • 888-796-3450 • www.vacationhomesonhoodcanal.com

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RV/Camping in Brinnon/Quilcene/Port Ludlow/Port Hadlock Collins Campground, 6 miles up Duckabush Rd from Hwy 101 • 360-765-2200 Cove RV Park • 303075 Highway 101, Brinnon 98320 • 360-796-4723 coverv.com Dosewallips State Park • Highway 101, 1/4 miles S. of Brinnon • 888-226-7688 • www.parks.wa.gov Falls View Campground • Highway 101, 3.5 miles S of Quilcene, Quilcene • 360-765-2200 • www.fs.usda.gov/olympic Fort Flagler State Park • 10541 Flagler Rd, Nordland 98358 • 360-385-1259 • www.parks.wa.gov Halfway RV Park • Highway 101 and Brinnon Ln, Brinnon • 360-796-4715 Port Ludlow RV Park • 44 Breaker Ln, Port Ludlow 98365 • 360-437-9377 • www.portludlowresort.com Quilcene Campground • 294964 Hiway 101, Quilcene 98376 • 360-385-9129 • www.countyrec.com Seal Rock Campground • 1 mile N of Brinnon, Brinnon • 360-765-2200 • www.fs.usda.gov/olympic Smitty’s RV Park • 9142 Flagler Rd, Nordland 98358 • 360-385-2165 • smittys_rv_park@msn.com Lower Oak Bay • 301 Portage Way, Port Ludlow 98365 • 360-385-9160 • www.countyrec.com upper Oak Bay • 290 Cleveland St, Port Ludlow 98365 • 360-385-9129 • www.countyrec.com

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Wild West End

By Scott Wilson

The Pacific Coast along the west end of the Olympic Peninsula is where locals go to get away from it all. You’d be wise to join them.

Spacious national and state campgrounds are tucked away into magnificent spots throughout what locals call “The West End.” Historic lodges and cabins occupy the best places amidst wilderness. The towns of Forks, La Push and Neah Bay all have food and lodging. Forks also has outfitting supplies, and, in case you hadn’t heard, a friendly family of vampires and their allies, wolves the size of stallions (the Twilight series of novels and movies).

Trailheads that network into hundreds of miles of Olympic Mountain trails, most of them lacing up river valleys of startling variety, invite hikers looking for a great day hike and likewise serious trekkers who plan several days in rugged wilderness.

The West End starts once you leave Port Angeles, which is also headquarters of Olympic National Park, set aside by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1909. Within the park’s million acres are glaciated peaks, led by 7,965-foot-tall Mount Olympus, and too many spectacular vistas to count or name. Park headquarters has maps, advice and – when needed – reservations for the controlled hikes 50 ❚ 2013 Getaway

Beach walks don’t get any better than those along the Olympic Peninsula coast. Hiking and camping can be as close as a short stroll from the car, or as long as a solitary 60 miles of power and beauty.

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and walks.

State Route 112 along the Strait of Juan de Fuca connects Pysht, Clallam Bay, Sekiu and Neah Bay, the latter the most northwestern point of the continental U.S., and home to the powerful Makah Indian Reservation of whaling fame. The town boasts the Hobuck Beach Resort with cabins; expect surfers in wetsuits.

Sports fishing, birding (migratory waterfowl and sea birds), beachcombing, biking, camping, diving, hiking, kayaking, surfing – it is all here. You won’t want to miss the Makah Museum.

Back down U.S. Highway 101, the Hoh Rain Forest, Queets Rain Forest and Quinault Rain Forest are all lush, natural wonders, getting more than 140 inches of rain annually.

Giant Sitka spruce and cedar trees are hundreds of years old, and big leaf maples support acres of moss.

Campground options abound. The Hoh Rain Forest Visitor Center is about 31 miles from Forks, or a two-hour drive from Port Angeles.

Glacial water means rivers like the Hoh, Sol Duc and Queets may be higher and colder in the summer. Some river sections can be waded by cautious anglers; otherwise, drift boats with experienced oarsmen are required. Get

ready for the world’s best wilderness beach camping. Choices include Cape Alava or Sand Point, two overnight hikes (or one long loop) found at the end of the Hoko-Ozette Road.

The ocean beaches are spectacular, with scenic overlooks, pounding surf and gentle tidepools.

Rialto Beach (north of Quillayute River) and First Beach (south of the river) are both about 12 miles from Forks via State Route 110 to LaPush. Second Beach (a short hike northward) is a particularly scenic spot.

About 35 miles on Highway 101 from Forks is Kalaloch (pronounced “claylock”) complete with sandy beaches, national park amenities, a lodge and cabins.

This is wild country. Be prepared with the right footwear and rain gear if you’re heading out for a long walk or hike. On the beaches, pay attention to rising tides and never underestimate the ocean’s power.

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Victoria beckons Victoria, B.C. was settled and developed into a city about the same time as Port Townsend in the 1850s, and the two seaside cities had many early business and political links.

Port Townsend’s economy sputtered, however, with political and business power shifting to the Seattle area. Victoria had its stops and starts but, thanks in large part to its miles of protected harbor, has evolved into “Canada’s most beautiful city,” and the “City of Gardens.”

It remains the political center of British Columbia, marked by the Neo-baroque architecture of the Parliament Building that is the focal point of the inner harbor.

Most visitors arrive just there, via the private MV Coho ferry (Black Ball Ferry Line) operated out of Port Angeles.

This small city and surprising city is buzzing with things to do and places to enjoy. There are, of course, several major garden attractions and dozens of pleasing

The neo-Baroque Parliament Building was completed in 1898. Atop the central copper dome is a gold-plated statue of Captain George Vancouver. Photo by Scott Wilson

small spaces that can surprise a visitor at any turn. Urban parks abound, as do fountains and gardens. The crown jewel of gardens is Butchart Gardens, 55 acres of seasonal color located within a 10-minute drive from the downtown. Established by an ambitious couple in 1904 in an old limestone quarry, it is still owned by the family. En route is the Victoria Butterfly Gardens with its 12,000-square foot tropical enclosure, holding at least 6,000 exotic butterflies. Close by are the gardens at the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific (HCP), with its magnificent rhododendrons.

Another stop is the heritage orchard of St. Ann’s Academy, which incorporates a Roman

Catholic Chapel from 1858.

Bicycles allow you to make a day of formal or informal garden touring. Bike rentals are plentiful, and should be. Victoria is a bikecrazy town, thanks to its low rainfall and temperate climate. You can enjoy the coastal route with its vistas across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Olympic peaks and its link to the site of historic Fort Victoria, marking the white settlement in 1843. Or you can connect with the locally favored Galloping Goose bike route, which together with the Lochside regional trails put 50 miles of mostly paved, mostly level biking before you, running through Victoria and all the way out past Sooke. The Goose was the name of the train whose rail bed has been turned into bike lanes.

Other Victoria highlights: Step inside of First Nations’ culture in the world-class exhibit in the Royal BC Museum just off the Inner Harbour. Take afternoon tea in the Fairmont Empress Hotel, a tradition since 1908. Choose from 10 different companies that operate orca whale tours from the Inner Harbour.

Visiting Canada: You’ll need a passport, an enhanced driver’s license, a NEXUS card, or a U.S. passport card. Bringing someone else’s child along? You may need a notarized consent from his/her parents. Be advised that Canada immigration is supposed to bar people with criminal convictions, including a DUI. Adding Victoria to your travel plan is the perfect bookend to a trip that started in Port Townsend. The small Victorian town that time forgot leads to the city that grew from the same humble beginnings, but kept its character.

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Royal BC Museum 1-888-447-7977 royalbcmuseum.bc.ca

The harbor of Victoria, British Columbia, with its scenic beauty and yellow water-taxis, is itself a draw to visitors, but you’ll find artists, musicians, jugglers and food vendors harborside as well. There are many events along the “harbour,” as it’s spelled in Canada. Photo by Marian Roh 52 ❚ 2013 Getaway

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Religious Organizations Bet Shira

PO Box 1843, Port Townsend 360-379-3042 • betshira@yahoo.com betshira.com Friday, 6:30pm: Shabbat Evening Service, followed by our traditional dairy/vegetarian potluck supper.

Saturday, 10am: Shabbat Morning Service, concluded with kiddush and motz.

Buddhist Center of Port Townsend, Dzogchen Dharma Chöling

Tibetan Buddhism • Visitors welcome!

Dzogchen.Society.108@gmail.com Sunday, 9:30-11:30am: Weekly Group Practice, upstairs at Phoenix Rising, 696 Water St., Port Townsend. Enter through the back stairs.

Evangelical Bible Church

An Evangelical Methodist Church 2135 San Juan Ave., Port Townsend 360-385-2076 Pastor James Lyman Sunday, 10 am: Bible Study; Sunday,11 am: Sunday Service &

Children’s Church Monday, 10am: Craft & Chat

First Baptist Church

Loving God & Loving Port Townsend.

A relaxed come-as-you-are, blend of contemporary and traditional music, prayer and honest Biblical teaching, nursery care provided.

1202 Lawrence St., Uptown Port Townsend 360-385-2752 • pffirstbap@netscape.net Pastor Skip Cadorette Sunday, 9:30 am: Worship Sunday, 10:45am: Classes for kids and youth; sermon discussion and coffee hour for adults.

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Port Townsend Christian Science Church, Sunday School & Reading Room 275 Umatilla Ave., Port Townsend 360-379-1139 christiansciencechurchporttownsend.com The Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader

Sunday services: 10am Testimony Meetings Reading Room, Monday and Friday, 11-3; Wednesday, 1:30-3; after church Sunday.

First Presbyterian Church

We are a welcoming community, sharing the spirit of Christ. Loving generously, serving selflessly, living justly.

1111 Franklin St., Port Townsend 360-385-2525 • fpcpt.org firstpres@cablespeed.com Pastor: Rev. Robert E. Slater, D. Min. Call for worship schedule.

Peace Lutheran Fellowship – ELCA

A Place of Grace 2924 Beaver Valley Rd., South of Chimacum at mile post 3 360-732-0004 peacelutheranfellowship.org Pastor Laurie Stumme - Diers.

Sunday Worship, 10am

Port Ludlow Community Church

Connecting Christ and Community 9534 Oak Bay Rd., Port Ludlow 360-437-0145 • plcc@olympus.net Dennis LaMance, Pastor Grace Sunday, 8:45am: Adult Bible Class Lutheran Church – ELCA Sunday Worship, 10:30am 1120 Walker St., Port Townsend Sonlight Club, during 10:30 service 360-385-1595 • gracelutheran.us The Rev. Coe Hutchison, Pastor Home studies on alternate Tuesdays Sundays, 9:15 am: Christian Education Thursday, 9am: Women’s Prayer & Adult Forum; 10:30am: Worship with Thursday, 10am: Women’s Bible Study Holy Communion Wednesdays, 10am: Bible Study on Quakers next week’s texts Religious Society of Friends Meet at PT Comm. Center, Lawrence & Tyler Fridays, 7am: Bible & Breakfast for 360-385-7070 • quaker.org/port-townsend men at Hwy. 20 Roadhouse Sunday, 9:30am: Worship with For current schedules and information please call or check our website. singing Visitors are always welcome!

Sunday, 10am: Silent worship

Grace Christian Center

Solid, Spirit-filled Bible teaching. “Loving Jesus and loving each other.”

Meeting at 200 Olympic Place, Port Ludlow Conference Center gracechristiancenter.us Kevin Hunter, ThD, 360-821-9680 Pastor Sherri Barden, PhD, 360-821-9684 Associate Pastor Karl Barden, ThD Sunday service: 10am Wednesdays, 6:30pm: Grace Gathering

Lutheran Church of the Redeemer LCMC

45 Redeemer Way, Chimacum, WA 360-385-6977 • redeemerway.org Pastor Don Pieper Sunday, 8am: Worship, traditional Sunday, 10:30 am: Worship, contemporary

Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship A Welcoming Congregation - Quimper UU Fellowship - All Are Welcome Here!

2333 San Juan Ave., Port Townsend 360-379-0609 • quuf.org quuf@olympus.net Sunday Service, 9:15 & 11:15am Religious Education for children and childcare offered at both services

San Juan Baptist Church

The Church on Discovery & home of the R.O.C.K. San Juan Baptist Church (SBC) is a warm, Bible-believing fellowship of folks who care about YOU! 1704 Discovery Rd., Port Townsend 360-385-2545 • sanjuanbaptist.com Dr. Conrad B. Dodd, Pastor Sunday, 9am: Sunday School for all ages;10am: Worship Service (childcare provided); 5pm Read through the

Bible Wednesdays, 10am: Prayer meeting; 7pm: Youth group Plus home Bible studies & special events.

Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church

In historic Port Townsend – worship with us in Washington’s oldest Episcopal church building in continuous use.

“We welcome everyone without exception.”

Corner of Jefferson & Tyler 360-385-0770 stpaulspt.org The Rev. Elizabeth A Bloch, Rector Sunday, 8 & 10am: Holy Eucharist Sunday, 10am: Children’s Program Wednesday, 10:30am: Holy Eucharist

& Healing Service Thursday, 8:30pm: Compline 2nd & 4th Sundays: Third Liturgy

St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church One of the oldest Catholic Churches in the Pacific Northwest 1335 Blaine St., Port Townsend (Corner of Harrison and Blaine) 360-385-3700 • stmaryss@qwestoffice.net Rev. John Topel, S.J. Pastor Confession one half hour before mass.

Saturday, 9am: Hispanic Mass Saturday, 5:30pm: Vigil Mass Sunday 8:15am & 11am; Monday, Thursday & Friday,12:05pm: Mass Tuesday, 12:05pm :Communion

Service Wednesday, 6:30pm: Mass We also offer children & adult religious education programs.

Trinity United Methodist Church

We are a friendly, welcoming, caring congregation. Come listen to our pipe organ!

609 Taylor St., Port Townsend 360-385-0484 • trinityumcpt.org Pastor Tony Brown Sunday, 10am: Service, child care available and handicap accessible

Unity

Spirituality with Open Hearts & Open Minds Meets at Masonic Hall (Jefferson/Van Buren) 360-385-6519 • unitypt.org Rev. Pamela Douglas-Smith Offering Meditation Groups, Classes and Special Events for the CommUnity.

Call for more info.

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Voice Works June 27 - 29 Traditional American Singing

Located at Fort Worden State Park The Harbor Entrance Control Facing the parade ground next to the Park HQ Post on top of Artillery Hill Open 11 am - 4 pm, 7 Days a Week, Year-round Open Saturdays, June - August: Fridays & Saturdays, June - August: 10 am - 5 pm 11 am-3 pm Small admission fee SPECIAL GROUP TOURS, CALL 360-385-0373

Fiddle Tunes July 4 - 6 Tapestry of Fiddle Styles

Puzzles, games & other fun stuff

Writers’ Conference July 7 - 20 Readings and Lectures

Something for everyone

Jazz Port Townsend July 25 - 27 Jazz from the Country’s Best Acoustic Blues Festival August 2 - 3 The American Blues Tradition Jenny Byrne

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Full of festivals Ongoing events Brinnon Farm Market • Thursdays through Sundays, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., May through September, at Elk Meadows Farm, 3485 Dosewallips Road.

Free Friday Concerts • Presented at noon on the patio at Fort Worden State Park Commons in the summer season through mid-August.

Sponsored by Centrum, centrum.org.

Friday Market in Port Ludlow Village Center • Fridays, 1-5 p.m., May 31-Sept. 30, portludlowtoday.com.

Gallery Walk • Galleries and other art venues in Port Townsend stay open in the evening on the first Saturday of each month. Many hold opening receptions for artists and offer light refreshments.

Living History Walking Tours • Offered at 2 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays, June through September, downtown and Uptown Port

Townsend. Call to arrange group tours. Sponsored

by Jefferson County Historical Society, 360-3851003, jchsmuseum.org.

Maritime Skills Workshops • Conducted year-round at Port Hadlock Heritage Campus of Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, 360385-4948, nwboatschool.org.

30th Olympic Music Festival • Classical chamber music Saturdays and Sundays, June 29-Sept. 1, at a dairy barn near Quilcene.

Box office opens May 1. 360-732-4800, olympicmusicfestival.org.

Port Townsend Bicycle Association Rides • Moderately paced rides into rural Jefferson County offered on Sundays. Meet at south side of Port Townsend’s Food Co-op and leave at 10 a.m. in winter (November-March), 9:30 a.m. in warmer months (April-October) pres@ptbikes.org, ptbikes. org. Please wear a helmet.

Port Townsend Farmers Market • Uptown at Tyler and Lawrence on Saturdays, April through October, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.; November and December, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; Wednesdays at Polk and Lawrence, July 3 through Sept. 26. Part of the Jefferson County Farmers Markets, 360-379-9098, jeffersoncountyfarmersmarket.org.

Port Townsend Marine Science Center • Adult and youth marine science activities throughout the year in the Natural History Exhibit, the Marine Exhibit and on the beach at Fort Worden State Park, 360-385-5582, ptmsc.org.

Protection Island Cruises • Spring and fall migration, summer puffin sightings and specialty cruises, including one on the schooner Adventuress. Sponsored by Port Townsend Marine Science Center, 360-385-5582, 800-566-3932, ptmsc.org.

Quilcene Farmers Market • Seasonally, 9 a.m.2 p.m., starting on Saturday, May 11. Quilcene Village Store, 294235 U.S. Highway 101.

Rothschild House & Commanding Officer’s Quarters • Open May-September through the

It’s called steampunk and it combines Victorian-era technology with futuristic style. For more, check out the Brass Screw Confederacy weekend, June 7-9, in Port Townsend. The event includes music, entertainment, vendors, fashion, lectures, kids’ activities and more. Photo by Patrick J. Sullivan Jefferson County Historical Society; Commanding Officer’s Quarters also open the Friday after Thanksgiving and the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. 360-385-1003, jchsmuseum.org.

Sailing Programs • Boatbuilding, sailing, voyaging and seamanship courses for families, groups, adults and youths. Sponsored by Wooden Boat Foundation, 360-385-3628, woodenboat.org.

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Opening Day on Port Townsend Bay is May 4. There’s a parade from the Boat Haven to the Northwest Maritime Center that begins at 12:30 p.m. It’s common to see a variety of boats in the bay, from sailboats and motorboats to ferryboats like the MV Kennewick. Although not shown in the photo above, submarines also can be seen in the bay, stopping at Naval Magazine Indian Island. Photo by Patrick J. Sullivan 56 ❚ 2013 Getaway

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is striving to create a school system that connects its students and their learning to our unique maritime community.

As a wonderfully rich place for experiential learning, Port Townsend offers opportunities for individual student interests to blossom in a diverse and supportive environment. We look forward to becoming full partners with our maritime community as we plan for our future.

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preservation and traditional woodcrafts, year-round at Port Townsend School of Woodworking in Fort Worden State Park, 360-3444455, ptwoodschool.com.

Concerts on the Dock • Thursdays, July 11-Aug. 29, Pope Marine Plaza/City Dock downtown.

All-ages concerts are free and

open to the public. Wine/beer/cider garden. Sponsored by the Port Townsend Main Street Program, 360385-7911, ptmainstreet.org.

Chimacum Farmers’ Market • Located at Chimacum Corner, where Highway 19 meets Chimacum and Center roads, on Sundays, June through October, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Part of the Jefferson County Farmers Markets, 360-379-9098, jeffersoncountyfarmersmarket.org.

April 2013

April-May • Spring White Cap Series. Fridays at 6 p.m., April 5-May 17. Sponsored by Port Townsend Sailing Association, ptsail.org.

April 25-May 19 • “Heartbreak House” by George Bernard Shaw.

For specific dates, call or visit website of Key City Public Theatre, 360-385-KCPT (5278) (pre-recorded show information), 379-0195 (other inquiries), keycitypublictheatre.org.

April 27 • 16th AAUW Kitchen Tour, “A Day in the Woods by the Bay.” 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Self-guided tour of eight extraordinary kitchens in Port Ludlow, sponsored by AAUW and UWF. Proceeds support local scholarships and community education projects, 360-302-0571, aauwpt.org/kitchen_tour.htm.

April 27, May 4 • Spring Migration Cruises to Protection Island, 1-4 p.m., sponsored by Port Townsend Marine Science Center, 800-5663932, 360-385-5582, ptmsc.org.

April 27 • Port Townsend Community Orchestra Spring Concert, “A Night at the Opera,” 7:30 p.m. Chimacum High School auditorium. Preconcert lecture, 6:45 p.m. porttownsendorchestra.org.

April 27-28 • 13th JeffCo EXPO, sponsored by Jefferson County Fair Association at the fairgrounds, offers 4x4 mud drags, car show, horse show, plant sale, arts and crafts show, and more, 360-385-1013, jeffcofairgrounds.com.

April 28-May 3 • Water World.

Centrum and the Port Townsend Marine Science Center collaborate on science and art workshops for grades 5-6. To register: centrum.org.

May 2013 May 1-31 • Art Wave – Children’s Art in the Stores, exhibit of artwork created by students in grades K-12 at local businesses. Sponsored by PT Artscape/Port Townsend Community Consortium and Port Townsend Main Street Program, 360-385-7911, ptmainstreet.org.

May 3 • First Friday Lecture, sponsored by Jefferson County Historical Society, presents Bruce Davies, curator of Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, B.C. 7 p.m. Port Townsend City Hall council chamber, 360-385-1003, jchsmuseum.org.

Children enjoy a parade of their own as well as a trike parade during the Rhododendron Festival. The 78th Rhododendron Festival gets under way on May 13 and continues through May 18, with events, festivities, parades and a carnival. Photo by Megan Claflin 58 ❚ 2013 Getaway

May 3-18 • “The Imaginary Invalid,” an updated version of the Molière classic, set in Paris of the 1970s and produced by Port Townsend High School, runs weekends, finishing up during Rhododendron Festival. Information: 360-379-4520 or jnielsen@ptsd50.org.

Artists of all ages are encouraged to show off and discover their talents.

The 22nd Uptown Crafts Fair, on Aug. 17, is located at Tyler and Lawrence streets. There’s art, music, crafts and lots more going on.

Photo by Megan Claflin May 4-22 • Recreational Shrimp Fishing. Open 7 a.m.-3 p.m. May 4 and 8 in Marine Area 9 (Port Townsend Bay & Admiralty Inlet); 7 a.m.-3 p.m., May 4, 8, 15, 18 and 22 in Marine Area 6 (Discovery Bay); and 9 a.m.-1 p.m., May 4, 8, 15, 18 and 22 in Marine Area 12 (Hood Canal).

Information: wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/shellfish/ shrimp.

May 4 • Escape into Art workshops and fundraiser to benefit K-12 arts education, and art workshops, part of Art Wave (see May 1-31 entry).

Sponsored by PT Artscape/Port Townsend Community Consortium and Port Townsend Main Street Program, 360-385-7911, info@ ptartscape.com, ptmainstreet.org.

May 4 • Opening Day on Port Townsend Bay. Parade from Boat Haven to Northwest Maritime Center begins after 12:30 p.m. ferry.

Sponsored by Port Townsend Yacht Club. Contact Fleet Captain Gerry Walsh, 360-301-3037. ptsail.org.

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May 4 • PT Shorts, 7:30 p.m.

Pope Marine Building, downtown Port Townsend, readings of literary works in conjunction with monthly Gallery Walk. Sponsored by the PT Arts Commission and Key City Public Theatre, keycitypublictheatre.org.

May 10-13 • Port Townsend Bead Market in Port Townsend, 360-3856131, wynwoods.com.

May 11-12 • 37th Rhododendron Arts & Crafts Fair, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. in downtown Port Townsend. Sponsored

by Port Townsend Arts Guild, 360379-3813, ptartsguild@yahoo.com, porttownsendartsguild.org.

May 13-18 • 78th Rhododendron Festival, with events, festivities, parades and carnival. Sponsored by Rhododendron Festival Association, rhodyfestival.org.

May 18 • Rhody Festival Grand Parade, 1 p.m., Uptown and downtown Port Townsend, rhodyfestival.org.

May 19 • Rhody Run XXXV, 12K race beginning and ending at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend. Race start is 11 a.m. Sponsored by Port Townsend Marathon Association, rhodyruninfo@ gmail.com, rhodyrun.com.

May 19 • Kids Sprint for Health, 9:30 a.m. on Rhody Run day at Fort Worden State Park. Sponsored

by Jefferson Healthcare. Open to children 9 and younger. Free.

385-2200, ext. 2036, jnowak@ jeffersonhealthcare.org.

May 25 • Olympic Art Festival, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Olympic Art Gallery, Quilcene, 360-765-0200, olympicartgallery.com.

May 24-26 • Brinnon ShrimpFest seafood festival. Relocated to new location next to Yelvik General Store for 2013. Information: 796-3432.

May 25 • Wooden Boat Race No. 1 on Port Townsend Bay. Sponsored

by Port Townsend Sailing Association, ptsail.org.

May 25 • Memorial Day Weekend Plant Sale, sponsored by the Quilcene-Brinnon Garden Club, 9 a.m.1 p.m. Quilcene Masonic Hall, 170 Herbert St. 360-765-0967.

May 26 • Marrowstone Island Tractor Days. Inquire at the Nordland General Store, 385-0777.

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What could be better than a classic movie shown outside on a large screen – with popcorn in hand? Check out the 14th annual Port Townsend Film Festival, Sept. 20-22. Courtesy photo May 27 • Port Townsend Summer Band season-opening Memorial Day concert, 11:30 a.m., Marvin G. Shields Memorial American Legion Post 26, Port Townsend, ptsummerband.org.

May 31, June 14-July 12, July 26 • Summer Cat’s Paw Race Series, Fridays. Sponsored by Port Townsend Sailing Association, ptsail.org.

June 2013

June 1 • PT Shorts, 7:30 p.m.

Pope Marine Building, downtown Port Townsend, readings of literary works in conjunction with monthly Gallery Walk. Sponsored by the PT

Arts Commission and Key City Public Theatre, keycitypublictheatre.org.

June 3-7 • Blue Heron Tales, Texts & Theater. Youth arts project for Blue Heron School’s sixth-grade class, sponsored by Centrum at Fort Worden State Park. 360-385-3102, ext. 120, centrum.org.

June 7 • First Friday Lecture, sponsored by the Jefferson County Historical Society, presents Craig Romano, guidebook author and outdoor writer and photographer, with “Backpacking Washington.”

Romano highlights 70 weekend and weeklong trips across the state.

7 p.m. Port Townsend City Hall council chamber, 360-385-1003, jchsmuseum.org.

June 7 • 123rd Port Townsend High School commencement, 7 p.m. at McCurdy Pavilion, Fort Worden State Park, ptsd.wednet.edu.

June 7-9 • 30th Classic Mariners’ Regatta, sponsored by Wooden Boat Foundation, 360-385-3628, ext. 103, woodenboat.org/regattas.

June 7-9 • Brass Screw Confederacy weekend in downtown Port Townsend features music, entertainment, vendors, fashion, lectures, kids’ events and more, culminating in a steampunk hootenanny on Saturday.

“Steampunk” combines Victorian-era technology with futuristic stylings.

Sponsored by Olympic Peninsula Steam. Nathan Barnett, 206-7995069, brass-screw.org.

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June 8 • Linger Longer Stage Concert features Locust Street Taxi, 5:30 p.m., Worthington Park, Quilcene.

June 8 • 94th Chimacum High School Commencement, 1 p.m.

McCurdy Pavilion, Fort Worden State Park, csd49.org.

June 8 • Port Townsend High School Alumni Banquet, Elks Lodge, 555 Otto St. June 8-9 • Wild Rose Chorale Concerts by Port Townsend’s own a cappella vocal group, 360-385-1402, 360-379-0223, wildrosechorale@gmail.com.

June 13 • 23rd Taste of Port Townsend features eateries throughout Port Townsend.

Sponsored by Main Street Program, ptmainstreet.org.

June 13-16 • Creative Nonfiction Workshop at Fort Worden State Park, sponsored by Centrum, centrum.org.

June 15 • Eighth North Olympic Peninsula Model Show & Contest, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at Fort Worden State Park. About 300 fine-scale models of ships, aircraft, autos, armor and figurines. Sponsored by North Olympic Peninsula Modelers Society, 360-681-5266, nopms.net.

Townsend Marine Science Center, ptmsc.org.

June 24-30 • Voice Works workshop for singers at Fort Worden State Park. Sponsored by Centrum, centrum.org.

June 26-July 21 • “The Big Bang,” a comedic musical history of the world, with book and lyrics by Boyd Graham and music by Jed Feuer. Call or visit website for specific dates, produced by Key City Public Theatre, 360-385-KCPT (5278) (prerecorded show information), 379-0195 (other inquiries), keycitypublictheatre.org.

June 29 • 20th Rat Island Regatta, human-powered boat race from Fort Worden State Park. Sponsored by Sound Rowers, 360-385-0457, soundrowers.org.

June 29 • Jack & Jill Race, noon, sponsored by Port Ludlow Yacht Club, plyc.us.

June 30 • Port Townsend Summer Band Concert, 3 p.m., Chetzemoka Park, ptsummerband.org.

June 30-July 7 • 37th Festival of American Fiddle Tunes at Fort Worden State Park. Sponsored by Centrum, centrum.org.

July 2013

July 4 • Port Townsend Summer Band Independence Day concert, 7:30 p.m. American Legion Post 26, Port Townsend, ptsummerband.org.

July 6 • PT Shorts, 7:30 p.m. Pope Marine Building, downtown Port Townsend, readings of literary works in conjunction with monthly Gallery Walk. Sponsored by the PT Arts Commission and Key City Public Theatre, keycitypublictheatre.org.

July 6, 13, 20, 27 • Puffin Cruises to Protection Island, 6-9 p.m., sponsored by Port Townsend Marine Science Center, 800-566-3932, 360385-5582, ptmsc.org.

July 6-7 • Marine Science Under Sail overnight trip for ages 11-15.

Sponsored by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center and Northwest Maritime Center; register at nwmaritime.org.

July 7-14 • Advanced High School Writers’ Studio at Fort Worden State Park, sponsored by Centrum, centrum.org.

July 7-21 • 40th Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, four-, seven-, 10- and 14-day options. Two weeks of workshops, with free public

readings and lectures at Fort Worden State Park. Sponsored by Centrum, centrum.org.

July 8-12 • Coastal Explorers Day Camp for ages 8-12 at Fort Worden State Park. Sponsored by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, ptmsc.org.

July 8-12, 15-19, 22-23 • Key City Kids’ Summer Theatre camps for three age groups. Call or visit website for specific dates.

Sponsored by Key City Public Theatre, 360-379-0195, keycitypublictheatre.org.

July 11-Aug. 12 • Concerts on the Dock. Free, family-friendly music on the waterfront, with local food vendors and beer garden.

Thursdays, 4:30-7:30 p.m., Pope Marine Plaza, Port Townsend.

Sponsored by local businesses and the Port Townsend Main Street Program, ptmainstreet.org.

July 19-21 • 17th Sequim Lavender Festival, Self-guided Farm Tour and Street Fair, lavenderfestival.com.

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June 15 • 102nd Quilcene High School Commencement, 2 p.m. school gymnasium, quilcene.wednet.edu.

June 15 • Tala Point Race, noon, sponsored by Port Ludlow Yacht Club, plyc.us.

June 22 • Secret Garden Tour “Beautiful & Bountiful” showcases gardens in Port Townsend and surrounding areas, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Sponsored by Jefferson County Master Gardeners, 360-379-5610, ext. 211, mg.jefferson.wsu.edu.

June 22 • Midsummer Regatta, sponsored by Port Townsend Sailing Association, ptsail.org.

June 22 • Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem return to Port Ludlow to welcome summer. Food and beverage at 4:30 p.m., music at 6 p.m. at the Bay Club. Sponsored by Port Ludlow Arts Council, 360-4372208, portludlowartscouncil.com.

June 22 • 10th Annual Rakers Car Show at Memorial Athletic Field in Port Townsend. Sponsored by Rakers Car Club, ptrakerscc.wordpress.com.

June 23 • Quilcene High School Alumni Reunion Luncheon at Quilcene Historical Museum.

June 24-28 • Junior Explorers Day Camp for ages 5-7 at Fort Worden State Park. Sponsored by the Port The Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader

The 10th annual Rakers Car Show at Memorial Athletic Field in Port Townsend is on June 22. Don’t miss top-fueled dragsters and hemi-powered racers; in the past, this 1960 Chevrolet El Camino has appeared.

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Coyle, 7:30 p.m., Laurel B. Johnson Community Center, 923 Hazel Point Road.

July 21-28 • Jazz Port Townsend Workshop at Fort Worden State Park. Sponsored by Centrum, centrum.org.

July 22-26 • Marine Biology Day Camp for ages 9-13 at Fort Worden State Park. Sponsored by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, ptmsc.org.

July 26-28 • Port Ludlow Festival by the Bay, with activities, Artists’ League show, crafts market, music, water activities, car show and more.

Sponsored by Port Ludlow Village Council, plfest.org.

July 27 • Paddle to Quinault. As many as 100 ocean-going canoes from First Nations communities in Washington and British Columbia travel along the coast from Neah Bay to Taholah, accompanied by the tall ships Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftain. paddletoquinault.org.

July 27 • Wooden Boat Race No. 5 on Port Townsend Bay. Sponsored by Port Townsend Sailing Association, ptsail.org.

July 27-28 • Relay for Life of Jefferson County, noon to noon, Memorial Athletic Field, Port Townsend. Overnight event celebrates cancer survivors and raises money for American Cancer Society, relayforlifeofjeffersoncounty.org.

July 28 • Summer Band Concert, 3 p.m. at Chetzemoka Park, ptsummerband.org.

July 28-Aug. 4 • 22nd Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival Workshop along with performances at Fort Worden State Park and local clubs. Sponsored by Centrum, 360385-3102, ext. 116, centrum.org.

July 29-Aug. 2 • “Art and History” and “Join the Regiment” camps,

sponsored by Jefferson County Historical Society. 360-385-1003, jchsmuseum.org.

August 2013

Aug. 2 • First Friday Lecture, sponsored by the Jefferson County Historical Society, presents Lance Weller, author of Wilderness, a historical novel of a Civil War veteran’s last journey on the Pacific Coast. 7 p.m. Port Townsend City Hall council chamber, 360-385-1003, jchsmuseum.org.

Aug. 2-18 • “Much Ado About Nothing,” a Shakespeare in the Park production by Key City Public Theatre at Chetzemoka Park. The Port Townsend Arts Commission –sponsored performances are all pay what you wish.

Call or visit website for specific dates, 360-385-KCPT (5278) (prerecorded show information), 379-0195 (other inquiries), keycitypublictheatre.org.

Aug. 2-Sept. 6 • Dog Days Races, Fridays. Sponsored by Port Townsend Sailing Association, ptsail.org.

Aug. 3 • 32nd Anniversary of Boat School. Northwest School

of Wooden Boatbuilding and Puget Sound Chapter of the Traditional Small Craft Association sponsor celebration, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at the school, 42 N. Water St., Port Hadlock. Tour shops, ride on 28-foot student-built dories, enjoy Ajax Restaurant beer garden. 360-3854948, nwboatschool.org.

Aug. 3 • PT Shorts, 7:30 p.m.

Pope Marine Building, downtown Port Townsend, readings of literary works in conjunction with monthly Gallery Walk. Sponsored by the PT Arts Commission and Key City Public Theatre, keycitypublictheatre.org.

Aug. 3 • Puffin Cruise, 6-9 p.m.

Sponsored by Port Townsend Marine Science Center, 800-566-3932, 360385-5582, ptmsc.org.

Aug. 4-10 • Dance This! workshop for high school students at Fort Worden State Park. Sponsored by Centrum, centrum.org.

Aug. 5-9 • Junior Explorers Day Camp for ages 5-7 at Fort Worden State Park. Sponsored by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, ptmsc.org.

The free Concerts on the Dock series in downtown Port Townsend happens on Thursdays, July 11-Aug. 29, at Pope Marine Plaza and City Dock.

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County Fairgrounds, rscds-seattle. org/ftworden.

Sept. 6-8 • 37th Wooden Boat Festival at Point Hudson features more than 300 wooden vessels and dozens of indoor and outdoor presentations and demonstrations.

Sponsored by Wooden Boat Foundation, 360-385-3628, woodenboat.org.

Sept. 6-8 • Military Vehicle Show at the Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum at Fort Worden State Park, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Exhibitions, tours, and rides in old military vehicles. 360385-0373, pscoastartillerymuseum. org.

Key City Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park production of “Twelfth Night” ran last year at Chetzemoka Park, and “Much Ado About Nothing” is on the bill for this year. Check out keycitypublictheatre.org for more information. Photo by Phil Baumgaertner/KCPT Aug. 9 • Quilcene Museum Wine and Beer Tasting Gala at Worthington Park. Vendors, food, local beer & wine. $20 per person. quilcenemuseum.org.

Aug. 9-11 • 76th Jefferson County Fair at the fairgrounds in Port Townsend. Sponsored by Jefferson County Fair Association, 360-3851013, jeffcofairgrounds.com.

Aug. 17 • Wooden Boat Race No. 6 on Port Townsend Bay. Sponsored by Port Townsend Sailing Association, ptsail.org.

Aug. 17 • Uptown Street Fair & Parade. Sponsored by Port Townsend Main Street Program, 360385-7911, ptmainstreet.org.

Aug. 17 • Summer Band Concert, 11 a.m., Port Townsend Community Center lawn for Uptown Street Fair, ptsummerband.org.

Aug. 17 • 22nd Uptown Crafts Fair, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Tyler and Lawrence streets. Sponsored by Port Townsend Arts Guild, 360379-3813, ptartsguild@yahoo.com, porttownsendartsguild.org.

Aug. 17 • 24th Kiwanis Classic Car Show at Memorial Athletic Field in downtown Port Townsend.

Sponsored by Port Townsend Kiwanis Club. Contact Ed Zinser, 360-3856568, 360-774-2852, e2zinser@ cablespeed.com.

Aug. 23-25 • Fourth Pasture Blaster hosted by Olympic Peninsula Rocketry 4-H near Discovery Bay. National Association Model Rocketry Competition; fun for kids and adults, 4hrockets.blogspot.com.

Aug. 24-25 • 15th Art Port The Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader

Townsend Artist Studio Tour.

Art studios open to the public on free, self-guided tour. Sponsored

by Northwind Arts Alliance, in conjunction with annual juried show, artporttownsend.org.

Sept. 7 • PT Shorts, 7:30 p.m.

Pope Marine Building, downtown Port Townsend, readings of literary works in conjunction with monthly Gallery Walk. Sponsored by the PT Arts Commission and Key City Public Theatre, keycitypublictheatre.org.

Sept. 7-8 • 40th Crafts by the Dock in downtown Port Townsend, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday. Sponsored by Port Townsend Arts Guild, 360-3793813, ptartsguild@yahoo.com, porttownsendartsguild.org.

Aug. 25 • Port Townsend Summer Band Concert, 3 p.m. at Pope Marine Park, Water and Monroe, Port Townsend, ptsummerband.org.

Sept. 8 • Port Townsend Summer Band, 3 p.m. Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave., Port Townsend, ptsummerband.org.

Aug. 31 • Singlehanded Race, noon, sponsored by Port Ludlow Yacht Club, plyc.us.

Sept. 11-15 • Ukulele Festival.

Sponsored by Centrum, centrum.org.

Aug. 31 • Protection Island Sail on the schooner Adventuress, sponsored by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, 800-5663932, 360-385-5582, ptmsc.org.

Aug. 31-Sept. 2 • Seventh Military Vehicle Collectors’ Show, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Fort Worden. Historical tours, displays. Sponsored by Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum, 360-385-0373.

September 2013

Sept. 6 • First Friday Lecture, sponsored by the Jefferson County Historical Society, presents “York, the Forgotten Hero,” by Bob Bartlett, about the slave who traveled with the Lewis and Clark expedition.

7 p.m. Port Townsend City Hall council chamber, 360-385-1003, jchsmuseum.org.

Sept. 6-8 • Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Seattle Branch, 39th Evergreen Workshop at Fort Worden State Park, including Saturday-night ball at Jefferson

Sept. 15 • 11th Annual Farm Tour, sponsored by WSU Jefferson County Extension, showcases many Jefferson County farms. Free, selfguided tour, 360-379-5610, ext. 200, jefferson.wsu.edu.

Sept. 15-Oct. 27 • Fall Nightcap Series. Sunday races sponsored by Port Townsend Sailing Association, ptsail.org.

Sept. 20-22 • 14th Port Townsend Film Festival, “a film lover’s block party,” films and related events in Uptown and downtown, 360-3791333, ptfilmfest.com.

Sept. 21 • Marrowstone Harvest Fest. Inquire at the Nordland General Store, 385-0777.

Sept. 21 • 33rd Quilcene Community Fair & Parade, “Celebrating the Return of the Salmon,” includes music, arts and crafts, Quilscenery photo contest, Ranger Run, classic car show and burnout competition on the grounds of Quilcene School. Sponsored

by Quilcene Fair and Parade Association, Bruce Munn, 360-3014026, bruce@munnbros.com, info@

quilcenefair.com orquilcenefair.com.

Sept. 28 • Commodore’s Cup • noon, sponsored by Port Ludlow Yacht Club, plyc.us.

Sept. 28 • Diane Lines’ Jump! is a celebration of swing and jump blues with this pianist/vocalist and her band at the gala champagne opener of Port Ludlow Arts Council concert season, sponsored by Port Ludlow Arts Council, 7:30 p.m., Bay Club, 360-437-2208, portludlowartscouncil.com.

Sept. 28 • Fall Bird Migration Cruise to Protection Island, sponsored by Port Townsend Marine Science Center, 800-566-3932, 360385-5582, ptmsc.org.

October 2013

Oct. 3 • Girls’ Night Out in downtown Port Townsend.

Sponsored by Port Townsend Main Street Program, 360-385-7911, ptmainstreet.org.

Oct. 3-20 • “The Six Basic Rules,” a romantic comedy by Mara Lathrop.

Call or visit website for specific dates, produced by Key City Public Theatre, 360-385-KCPT (5278) (prerecorded show information), 379-0195 (other inquiries), keycitypublictheatre.org.

Oct. 4 • First Friday Lecture, sponsored by the Jefferson County Historical Society, presents Nancy McDaniel, author of A Sound Defense – Military Historical Sites of Puget Sound. 7 p.m. Port Townsend City Hall council chamber, 360-385-1003, jchsmuseum.org.

Oct. 5 • PT Shorts, 7:30 p.m.

Pope Marine Building, downtown Port Townsend, readings of literary works in conjunction with monthly Gallery Walk. Sponsored by the PT Arts Commission and Key City Public Theatre, keycitypublictheatre.org.

Oct. 5 • Fall Bird Migration Cruise to Protection Island, sponsored

by Port Townsend Marine Science Center, 800-566-3932, 360-3855582, ptmsc.org.

Oct. 5-6 • 31st Great Port Townsend Bay Kinetic Skulpture Race, “A Kinetic Kartoon,” Sponsored by Port Townsend Kinetic Konsortium, info@ptkineticrace.org, ptkineticrace.org.

Oct. 12 • Bitter End Race, noon, sponsored by Port Ludlow Yacht Club, plyc.us.

Oct. 12 • “Soar!” Centrum Annual

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Gala Dinner & Auction. 360-3853102, ext. 112, centrum.org.

Oct. 16-20 • Essentially Blues: Acoustic Guitar Intensive.

Sponsored by Centrum, centrum.org.

Oct. 17-Nov. 2 • “Zombie Town: A Documentary Play,” a Pacific Northwest premiere “mockumentary”

by Tim Bauer. Call or visit website for specific dates, produced by Key City Public Theatre, 360-385KCPT (5278) (prerecorded show information), 379-0195 (other inquiries), keycitypublictheatre.org.

Oct. 24 • Everything Fitz, a six-member family band from Canada that features fiddling and step dancing, sponsored by Port Ludlow Arts Council, 7:30 p.m., Bay Club, 360-437-2208, portludlowartscouncil.com.

Oct. 26 • PT Community Orchestra Fall Concert at 7:30 p.m. at Chimacum High School auditorium, preconcert lecture with maestro Dewey Ehling at 6:45 p.m. info@porttownsendorchestra.org, porttownsendorchestra.org.

Oct. 31 • Downtown Trick or Treat Parade in Port Townsend.

Sponsored for children by Port Townsend Main Street Program, 360-385-7911, ptmainstreet.org.

November 2013

Nov. 1 • First Friday Lecture, sponsored by the Jefferson County Historical Society, presents Daniel J. Brown, author of The Boys in the Boat, the story of the 1936 U.S. Men’s eight-oar rowing team.

7 p.m., Port Townsend City Hall council chamber, 360-385-1003, jchsmuseum.org.

Nov. 2 • PT Shorts, 7:30 p.m.

Pope Marine Building, downtown Port Townsend, readings of literary works in conjunction with monthly Gallery Walk. Sponsored by the PT Arts Commission and Key City Public Theatre, keycitypublictheatre.org.

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Girls’ Night Out in downtown Port Townsend takes place on Oct. 3. The evening gives women a chance to shop for fun while also supporting a good cause. Funds raised from the sale of “goodie bags” help pay for breast and cervical cancer screenings for low-income women. These women from Jefferson Healthcare came to the event last year. The theme was “Slumber Party.” Photo by Allison Arthur TBA • Annual Holiday Fair at Jefferson County Fairgrounds in Port Townsend. Sponsored by County Fair Association, 360-385-1013, jeffcofairgrounds.com.

Nov. 2-3 • Port Townsend Woodworker’s Show, Marvin G. Shields Memorial American Legion Post 26, Water and Monroe.

Registration opens on July 1. splintergroup.org.

Nov. 7-10 • Fiction with Rebecca Brown. Sponsored by Centrum, centrum.org.

Nov. 8-9 • Fall General Auditions for Key City Public Theatre at Key City Playhouse, 6 p.m., Friday; 2 p.m.

Saturday. 379-0195, keycitypublictheatre.org.

Nov. 11 • Veterans Day Ceremony at American Legion Post 26, 10:30 a.m., with performance by Port Townsend Summer Band, ptsummerband.org.

Nov. 15-17 • West End Weekend, sponsored by the Jefferson County Historical Society, features lectures, field trips and activities on Jefferson County’s west side, 360-385-1003, jchsmuseum.org.

Nov. 24 • Community Chorus of Port Townsend & East Jefferson County presents holiday concerts, 360-385-1402, ptchorus.org.

Nov. 29-30 • Holiday Craft Sale, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Port Townsend Community Center. Sponsored by Port Townsend Arts Guild, 360379-3813, ptartsguild@yahoo.com,

porttownsendartsguild.org.

Nov. 30 • Merchants’ Holiday Open House/Small Business Saturday in downtown Port Townsend. Sponsored by Port Townsend Main Street Program, 360385-7911, ptmainstreet.org.

Nov. 30 • Thanksgiving Cruise to Protection Island, 1-4 p.m.

Sponsored by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, 800-5663932, 360-385-5582, ptmsc.org.

December 2013

Dec. 1 • Community Chorus of Port Townsend & East Jefferson County presents holiday concerts, 360-385-1402, ptchorus.org.

Dec. 4-22 • “The Snow Queen,” a stage adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson classic. Call or visit website for specific dates, produced by Key City Public Theatre, 360-385-KCPT (5278) (prerecorded show information), 379-0195 (other inquiries), keycitypublictheatre.org.

Dec. 7 • Marrowstone Tree Lighting. Details at the Nordland General Store, 360-385-0777.

Dec. 7 • Community Tree Lighting & Santa Visit in downtown Port Townsend. Sponsored by Port Townsend Main Street Program, 360385-7911, ptmainstreet.org.

Dec. 7 • Port Townsend Community Orchestra Holiday Concert at 7:30 p.m. at Chimacum High School auditorium, preconcert lecture with maestro Dewey Ehling at 6:45 p.m. info@porttownsend orchestra.org, porttownsend orchestra.org.

Dec. 7 • PT Shorts, 7:30 p.m.

Pope Marine Building, downtown Port Townsend, readings of literary works in conjunction with monthly Gallery Walk. Sponsored by the PT Arts Commission and Key City Public Theatre, keycitypublictheatre.org.

Dec. 8 • Santa’s Arrival on Marrowstone. Details at the Nordland General Store, 360-385-0777.

Dec. 8 • Concord Chamber Choir and Columbia Vocal Ensemble, a mixed-voice adult choir and a mixed choir of young people, sing sacred and secular holiday music.

Sponsored by Port Ludlow Arts Council, 4 p.m., Bay Club, 360-4372208, portludlowartscouncil.com.

Dec. 13, 15 • Wild Rose Chorale & Friends Holiday Concerts with the a cappella group, youth choirs and a group of holiday singers. First Presbyterian Church, Port Townsend, 360-379-0223, 360-385-1402, wildrosechorale@gmail.com.

Dec. 14-15 • Chimacum Arts & Crafts Fair, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Chimacum High School, in support of school activities. $3 entry. 360-7324015, chimacumarts.org.

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Dec. 31 • First Night Celebration, sponsored by Jefferson County Historical Society, 360-385-1003, jchsmuseum.org.

Dec. 31 • New Year’s Eve Cruise to Protection Island, 1-4 p.m.

Sponsored by Port Townsend Marine Science Center, 800-566-3932, 360385-5582, ptmsc.org.

January 2014

Jan. 1 • Polar Bear Dip, noon, Nordland, 360-385-0777.

Jan. 4 • PT Shorts, 7:30 p.m., Cotton Building downtown Port Townsend, readings of literary works in conjunction with monthly Gallery Walk. Sponsored by the PT Arts Commission and Key City Public Theatre, keycitypublictheatre.org.

March 2014

March 1 • PT Shorts, 7:30 p.m., Cotton Building downtown Port Townsend, readings of literary works in conjunction with monthly Gallery Walk. Sponsored by the PT Arts Commission and Key City Public Theatre, keycitypublictheatre.org.

March 1-31 • Port Townsend Public Library Community Read, community members read the same book, with discussion groups, speakers and readings, 360-3853181, ptpubliclibrary.org.

TBA • Playwrights’ Festival, produced by Key City Public Theatre, 360-385-7396, keycitypublictheatre. org.

March 7 • The Alley Cats • A cappella harmony in songs of the ’50s and ’60s. Sponsored by Port Ludlow Arts Council, 7:30 p.m., Bay Club, 360-437-2208, portludlowartscouncil.com.

Mid-March • Fort Worden Kitemakers Conference at Fort Worden State Park, kitemakers.org.

TBA • 24th Annual Stars of Tomorrow youth talent show, 360-379-0520.

March 21-23 • Victorian Heritage Festival, vicfest.org.

April 2014

April-May • Spring White Cap Series on Port Townsend Bay. Sponsored by Port Townsend Sailing Association, ptsail.org.

April 5 • PT Shorts, 7:30 p.m., Cotton Building downtown Port Townsend, readings of literary works in conjunction with monthly Gallery Walk. Sponsored by the PT Arts Commission and Key City Public Theatre, keycitypublictheatre.org.

April 5-6 • Discovery Bay Volunteer Firefighters Association Salmon Derby, dbvffa5.org.

April 6 • Intersection, a trio of violin, cello and piano, merges concert and popular music in the concert series finale. Sponsored by

TBA • 10th Strange Brewfest in Port Townsend, strangebrewfestpt. com.

TBA • PT Sectional Bridge Tourney at fairgrounds, acbl.org.

February 2014

Feb. 1 • PT Shorts, 7:30 p.m., Cotton Building downtown Port Townsend, readings of literary works in conjunction with monthly Gallery Walk. Sponsored by the PT Arts Commission and Key City Public Theatre, keycitypublictheatre.org.

TBA • Port Townsend Chamber Music Festival at Fort Worden State Park, sponsored by Centrum, centrum.org.

Feb. 7 • Pam Drews Phillips, pianist, conductor and composer from the Broadway musical stage, plays jazz piano from ragtime to contemporary. Sponsored by Port Ludlow Arts Council, 7:30 p.m., Bay Club, 360-437-2208, portludlowartscouncil.com.

Feb. 15-17 • Olympic Peninsula Salmon Derby, sponsored by Gardiner Salmon Derby Association, gardinersalmonderby.com.

Feb. 22 • Port Townsend Community Orchestra Winter Concert at 7:30 p.m. at Chimacum High School auditorium, preconcert lecture with maestro Dewey Ehling at 6:45 p.m. info@ porttownsendorchestra.org, porttownsendorchestra.org.

TBA • 23rd Shipwrights’ Regatta, sponsored by Wooden Boat Foundation, 360-385-3628, woodenboat.org.

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Derr Jewelry........55

123 Thai.............35

Dockside Grill......29

940 Gallery...........7

Doc’s Marina Grill...............25, 29

Addie Mae’s... 25, 37 Ajax Cafe............ 31 Alchemy..............37

Port Ludlow Arts Council, 7:30 p.m. Bay Club, 360-437-2208, portludlowartscouncil.com.

Aldrich’s Market ..........................59

TBA • 17th annual AAUW Kitchen Tour sponsored by AAUW Port Townsend and University Women’s Foundation, aauwpt.org.

All About Accommodations .......................... 11

April 26 • Port Townsend Community Orchestra Spring Concert at 7:30 p.m. at Chimacum High School auditorium, pre-concert lecture with Maestro Dewey Ehling at 6:45 p.m. info@porttownsendorchestra.org, porttownsendorchestra.org.

TBA • Port Townsend Chamber Music Festival at Fort Worden State Park, sponsored

by Centrum, centrum.org.

TBA • 14th JeffCo EXPO, sponsored by Jefferson County Fair Association at the fairgrounds. 360-385-1013, jeffcofairgrounds.com.

It’s one of the biggest holiday fairs on the Olympic Peninsula and it benefits children in all area schools. Craft vendors from all around descend on Chimacum High School on Dec. 14-15 for the Chimacum Arts & Crafts Fair. Students also sell their artwork. Photo by Allison Arthur 66 ❚ 2013 Getaway

Alpenfire Cider....25 April Fool & Penny, Too.......... 13 Aurora Aircraft Services............. 19 Belmont Hotel & Restaurant..... 26-27

Diva Yarn & Trim.. 54

Dos Okies Barbeque............ 31 Eaglemount Winery................25 Earthenworks Gallery............ 7, 54

Muskan Indian Restaurant..........39

Resort at Port Ludlow...........2

NIA Madrona MindBody............21

San Juan Villa...... 11

Northwest Maritime Center................ 57

Shanghai Restaurant..........35

Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding........23 Northwind Arts Alliance.................7

El Sarape............39

Olympic Game Farm......... 19

Elevated Ice Cream...........39

Olympic Music Festival............... 15

Finnriver Farm & Cidery.................25

Olympic Peninsula Wineries.............. 51

Food Co-op.........35

Owl Sprit Cafe.....25

Forest Gems... 7, 11

Pacific Traditions...7

Fountain Cafe......25

Palace Hotel........ 17

Bergstrom’s Antique Frameworks..........7 & Classic Auto..... 13 Gallery 9........... 7, 9 Better Living Gateway Through Coffee... 31 Visitors Center....45 Bishop Victorian Getables............. 31 Hotel...................59 Gudlife Homo/Bi/ Blue Moose Uptown Trans Network..... 57 Grill.....................59 Hanazono Blue Raincoat Asian Noodle.......29 Gallery..................7 JeffCo Chamber of Broken Spoke...... 13 Commerce....42, 43 Bullman Jefferson County Beach Inn............21 Fair Association.....3 Cellar Door..........39 Jefferson County Centrum..............55 Historical Society.17

Sequim Arts........ 19

Silverwater Cafe....................35 Simon Mace Gallery............ 7, 67 Sirens Pub..........37 Donna Standerwick........ 19 Subway Sandwiches........35 Summer House Design......23 Swan Hotel..........59 The Car Wash......21

The Spice & Tea Pane d’Amore......35 Exchange............21 Perfect Dreams Tides Inn & Cupcakes............29 Suites................. 15

Pippa’s Real Tea.. 31 Uptown Fabrics...59 Port Townsend Aero Uptown Nutrition.59 Museum.............. 11 Uptown Pub........59 Port Townsend Antique Mall........ 13 Velocity Port Townsend............35 Port Townsend Arts Guild............21 Wandering Angus.................23 Port Townsend Farmers Market... 13 Wandering Wardrobe............54 Port Townsend Gallery............ 7, 21 Water Street Creperie..............39 Port Townsend William James Marine Science Center................23 Bookseller...........23

Chimacum Corner Farmstand........... 31

Jefferson Land Trust........... 11

Chimacum Farmers Market................ 13

Jefferson Transit................ 41

City of Port Townsend....45

Joglo.................. 19

Coldwell Banker Best Homes........21

Key City Public Theatre.......3

Completely Puzzled...............55

KPTZ: Radio Port Townsend............ 19

Connie Segal Natural Skincare.. 54

Lanza’s Ristorante...........39

Conservatory Coastal Home.......7

Lila Drake Jewelry.................3

Wynwoods Gallery Puget Sound Express..............68 & Bead Studio ...................... 7, 54 Quimper Mercantile Company..............9

Copper Canyon Press...... 17

Max Grover Gallery..................7

Red Raven Gallery..................7

Curly Top Collectibles.........59

Metro Bagels....... 31

Religious Organizations......53

Key City Fish.......39

PT Pearl..............54 William’s Gallery............ 7, 55 PT School of Woodworking...... 57 Windermere PT Office............. 15 Port Townsend School District.... 57 Wine Seller..........23 Public House Grill.39 Writers’ Workshoppe........21 Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum.55 WSU Extension.... 57

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PORT TOWNSEND / SAN JUAN ISLANDS

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