Here’s a thought…
Early ferries? From where, to where, with what?
Part 2 -- Orcasional Musings by Steve Henigson -- There were regularly-scheduled passenger boats to the islands in 1860, but they were British, and they carried the Royal Mail from Victoria to San Juan Island.
Orcasional Musings | Early ferries? From where, to where, with what?
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| If you want to visit an island, you have to take a ferry. So it all hinges on where you can get on, whether it goes to where
Orcasional Musings | Friday Harbor? Why’s it called that?
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| Our illustrious Editor recently asked me to write a short essay on what happened on Orcas Island during the very brief, but not really unpleasant, little dust-up that
Letter to Editor | Earth has a solution to humanity’s destruction
-- from Domenic Verbano -- The Earth’s Solution to Humanity's Destruction: Unity Consciousness. There is a solution. And the Earth has it. And it is so gentle and subtle and sweet, many of us have
Letter to Editor | The world is a better place with music
-- from Anita Orne for Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival -- As the final notes of the 2019 Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival fade away, their echo and our memory of the music sustains us
Letter to Editor | Brother Crow, Sister Crow
-- from Spirit Eagle -- Machines roared crunching the beautiful trees into Nothingness, toothpicks for the The Machine to pick its teeth, to show how powerful it thinks it is. Oh, but it is for a
Orcasional Musings | It’s The Berries! Can They Think?
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| Sometimes I think that berry bushes are smarter than we are. The various wild Orcasian berries have discovered ways to coexist with very little conflict, while we humans
Letter to Editor | Thanks to WSF boat captains
-- from San Juan Island Yacht Club Race Committee -- The San Juan Island Yacht Club would like to thank the Washington State Ferry boat Captains who carefully maneuvered around and sometimes through the fleet
Letter to Editor | Library Fair a success in spite of rain
-- from Ken Gibbs, President, Friends of the Orcas Island Library -- Despite the intermittent rain, the Annual Library Fair and Summer Book Sale sponsored by the Friends of the Orcas Island Library (FOIL) was a success. As always, this was due
Guest Opinion | Many unknowns in considering property tax rebate for renting to employees
-- from Cindy Wolf -- The idea of a property tax rebate for renting to employees brings a couple of different consequences to mind that would need to be thought about and addressed. I don't
Orcasional Musings | New uses for what? Outhouses?
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| During the early history of Orcas Island, there was a whole lot of smuggling going on. We're just so close to the Canadian border that the temptation has
Book burning? Really?
-- Orcasional Musings by Steve Henigson -- Back about 20 years ago, Frank Michels got it into his head that there should be a theatrical production of Ray Bradbury's pro-book, pro-free-thought, science-fiction masterpiece, Fahrenheit 451, and
Letter to Editor | Clarification about Port Commissioner ballot
-- from Mia Kartiganer -- A lot of people have been asking me why all of the Port Commissioner candidates are not on the ballot. A primary ballot is required any time there are more
Indian raiders? Where?
-- Orcasional Musings by Steve Henigson -- Note that I'll be using the Politically Incorrect word, "Indian." It's the word that was in common usage when the events in this story took place, and, anyway,
Letter to Editor | Vacation rentals: Wanna do something about it?
-- from Steve Henigson -- Jean and I went to our bank, today, to do some everyday banking business. The lines were long, and moving slowly, and even the Bank Manager was doing the work
