Letters to the Editor

Hail Port Townsend

Editor, the Journal,

Port Townsend has exceeded all communities I've visited in my peripatetic life in being extraordinarily vibrant. Once thought to be in competition with Seattle for seagoing freight, she's rather become enchanting through achieving accomplishments: Perpetual motion, anti-gravity, and agelessness.

Perpetual motion: There's a skateboard park near the harbor. I've witnessed adolescents and one old guy, possibly in this 30s, lean and tough as rawhide, ramp skateboards off cliffs into chasms of concrete and arrive unscathed after loops, curls and twirls on the...