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Cruising The Briefly Embattled San Juan Islands

MORE AND MORE AMERICANS ARE PAYING A LOT OF MONEY TO PUT THEMSELVES IN MORTAL DANGER. WHY? AND WHY NOW?

Deciding to rescue a historic property is the start of what turns out to be a lifelong relationship as terrifying as it is exhilarating

The threat was distant but definite, like cannon rumbling beyond the next ridge. Mr. and Mrs.

The world about us is strewn with relics that are quietly eloquent of the struggle that ended half a century ago

Finger some old magazines from the world War II years.

The strange saga of a town that bragged, burned, and bullied itself into existence—and then became one of the most civilized places on earth

I’m a newcomer to Puget Sound, but I’ve lived here long enough to know not to brag about Seattle.

When the author moved into a 1905 house on an island near Seattle, he found himself sharing it with the uncommon people who had lived there before him

Bainbridge Island, Washington, where I live, seemed to me amazingly unspoiled for a suburb of Seattle until one afternoon last spring,when I borrowed a neighbor’s kayak and for the first time pulled my way up Port Orchard Channel.

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