By Jim Farrell Editor note: Now for the rest of the story… Just up the west coast of Vancouver Island, from Barkley Sound and just off the coast of Tofino lies Strawberry Island and what’s reputed in 2003 to be the anchor of Astor’s ship Tonquin. It was reported by the New York Times in…
By Jim Farrell On May 3, 2022, she would have been100 years-old, an age she wanted to achieve, but she died three and a half years ago. This lady was raised in the logging camps of the Olympic Peninsula, on the “west end”, where the only way to even reach Port Angeles, WA was by…
By Russ Farrell (From Yesterday is Hardly Gone) Our barn caught fire; the sparks lit up the harvest night. All forage gone; we’d saved the house all right. And that was yesterday, and I was six. To you of ten or twenty ‘twas an age or so, Years and years and years in long ago….
As our country struggles with ‘critical race theory’ (CRT) and a portion of our country wants to forget teaching our history, in our schools, maybe, just maybe, those who want to forget our history, should look into their own family’s past and remind themselves of their own hu-man-i-ty and welcome others who are different from…
By Russ Farrell (Editor’s note: In the 1950s, The International Woodworkers Union [IWA} was trying to organize logger’s on the Olympic Peninsula and improve worker’s safety in the woods where many loggers lost their lives, and the company’s would try to blame the workers for their own deaths instead of the conditions they had to…