Oysterville Daybook Archives

And me without my camera!!  What was I thinking?  But when Joan Stuart Ross wrote and asked if I was free, I didn't even check to make sure!  I did, however, ask if I could bring a friend and so, this afternoon at three o'clock sharp Susan Stauffer...

Last Sunday's Music Vespers wasn't the first "Full House" of the Summer, but it might have been the first Standing Room Only crowd in quite a while.  And that didn't come as a surprise to any of the Vespers "regulars" who began arriving at 2:00...

  Saturday the Eighth of August 2026 said the invitation...(with some activities commencing on the evening of Friday the Seventh of August and continuing until Sunday the Ninth of August).  A few of the details were spelled out enticingly:...

We gathered at Cyndy's place, the most northerly home within Oysterville's National Historic District.  Most of us were "local" but there were others from afar -- all of us in bright summer plumage and carrying treats to share and, of course,...

I hope you were fortunate enough to read Cate Gable's "Coast Chronicles" column in last Wednesday's Chinook Observer!  It was all about Oysterville -- our "regular" Friday Night get-together on July 24th at the "south end" of the village and a...

It's been nearly 30 years since Nyel and I first asked a few friends to come to our place in Oysterville on Friday Nights -- "Five to Seven, you bring an appetizer, we'll supply the drinks."  It was our answer to moving into a big house that had...

Of all the historic buildings on our Long Beach Peninsula -- (well, maybe discounting the Cape D. Lighthouse) --  I do believe that our little historic church here in Oysterville is the most photographed, painted, visited, and revered of any other...

Back in the "olden days" -- you know, in the late thirties and early forties when I was a little girl -- my Oysterville grandparents looked forward to the summer weather when the relatives would come from North Bend or Portland or Salem or maybe...

Nyel was fond of saying that "Patience" is not my middle name.  I didn't argue.  Patience is a virtue I must work hard at maintaining.  As my mother sometimes said of me, "She does not suffer fools gladly."  But, other than, "Medora" -- the middle...

I was preparing a bit for my "Oysterville Moment" to be given today at Vespers. It's been a tradition for the (almost) 50 years of our Music Vespers Programs that the first five minutes will be devoted to a story or memory about "old Oysterville"...

In all my ninety years, I cannot remember another time that I couldn't meet my obligations -- especially if they involved being "on stage" for an event of importance.  Certainly never for a Summer Vespers "Oysterville Moment."  And never in the...

...to The Honorary Oysterville Militia's Fourth of July Salute to Our Nation on the occasion of its 250th birthday!  Festivities will begin on Saturday, July 4th at 5:00 p.m. at the official Cannon Grounds of Oysterville.  Bring your earplugs!...