'He loved the land, the earth'

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'He loved the land, the earth'

June 2, 2022

Gordon Weeks

Elizabeth Bennett shares memories of her friend, Mark Woytowich, at a memorial celebration Sunday at Rest-A-While RV Park's Art & Music Fair north of Hoodsport.

Mark Woytowich, the outdoors columnist for the Shelton-Mason County Journal for seven years and the author of "Where the Waterfalls and Wild Things Are," was remembered as a gregarious, big-hearted lover of nature and his fellow humans at a memorial celebration Sunday at Rest-A-While RV Park's Art & Music Fair north of Hoodsport.

Friends shared their stories of the Lilliwaup resident, who died of a heart attack at age 65 on May 6 at Mason General Hospital in Shelton. The Ohio native who adopted the rainforests and waterfalls of the Olympic Mountains 28 years ago hosted a booth at the fa...

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