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Mutiny on the Aberdeen

Mutiny on the Aberdeen

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library In the last few years we have read about cruise ship vacations gone bad, to the point where the passengers form a “mutiny.” As we can see by the May 31, 1900 article from Port Townsend’s Weekly Leader, this sort of thing is nothing new: CONDITION ABOARD OF THE ABERDEEN Wild Rumors Circulated to the Effect that Passengers Had Mutinied. INSPECTORS OF VESSELS SEVERELY CRITICISED…

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From Your Corner: Cape Flattery

From Your Corner: Cape Flattery

Photos by Patrick McDonald Did you know that Washington possesses the most northwestern point of the Lower 48 states of the U.S.? It’s Cape Flattery, where the Pacific Ocean meets the Strait of Juan de Fuca. It’s located in Clallam County, on the northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula. The cape is part of the Makah Reservation. The photo above gives a view of the cape just above the shoreline. The photo below is taken from a nearby hill. It…

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