The first Wednesday of each month is when our newly launched Pacific County History Forum meets at the Oysterville Schoolhouse. And, as I was writing the title for this blog, I realized that it's also the day that my monthly column is published in...
During the last half of his long life, my uncle Willard Espy worked periodically on a book about his own growing-up years in Oysterville. The tentative title was "Past Perfect" and each time he was out here on vacation from his home in New York,...
Since my column in the Chinook Observer is published on the first Wednesday of each month, and since the first Wednesday of November is actually November 1st. and since that day is Samhain, a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season...
Except there aren't any antelope(s)* here in Oysterville and the current resident deer has a painful-looking limp so "play" may not be an option for her. She (or he?) is small, maybe a yearling though it's difficult to determine. She walks slowly...
I think this might be a first! I've been asked to speak to a group of neighbors about the history of Oysterville! I'll be talking at the Surfside Business Office on Wednesday, April 19th at 2:00. So says an announcement in the Surfside Weekender...
All my life and, as far as I know, all my mother's life, that grassy swath south of our house has been called "the lane." Never mind that it's on current maps as "Clay Street." And never mind that my own grandfather Harry Espy and his cronies...
The main thoroughfare through Oysterville when I was a child was Fourth Street. It was graveled and we just called it "the road." It wasn't exactly the center of activity but it was the main way to get wherever we wanted to be. On land, that...
Today, Tucker and I were interviewed for Our Coast magazine by freelance writer Katherine Lacaze. She had contacted me some days ago by email, indicating that she was interested in "looking into how Oysterville has evolved over the years and......
Check it out! A couple of doors north and across the street from our place is the wonderful house that Lina and Dave Cordray own. It's the "modern" house many people ask about -- the one built by Jim and Leigh Wilson-Codega back in the nineties. ...
Today we learned that our long-time friend and neighbor, Ron Biggs, died yesterday -- apparently in good health, while working in his garden. His is the seventh death since 2022 began. Too many for such a tiny village to endure. It's true that...
Chef Nyel sent us intrepid ones off to tideflats to get a few clams for the paella. "A couple of dozen should be plenty," said he, and off we went -- Alex and three of his kids with me as guide. It was seven ayem; Charlie slept in. The morning...
As we approach the first anniversary of "sheltering in place" (which for us is right here at home)... and now that we've had our two covid vaccinations... we are looking forward to getting out and about more. Or at least that's what we tell one...