Our Place The sign on the porch above our gate has been there as long as I can remember. It says “TSAKO-TE-HASH-EETL” and means “place of the red-topped grass.” It is what the Chinook Indians called this area because in the summer,...
Oyster Schooner Louisa Morrison, 1868 The garden beds on either side of our east door grow native oyster shells – or so it seems. Each spring as I begin the winter clean-up chores, I find that more than the weeds have multiplied. The small,...
Hip Hip Hooray! Raise the Flag! Fire the Cannon! Today marks the 156th anniversary of the founding of Oysterville! According to the account by Robert Hamilton Espy, he and Isaac Alonzo Clark kept their rendezvous with Chinook elder Klickeas on...