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Amor de Cosmos Juggles a Sour Grass Steak in Kalama

Amor de Cosmos Juggles a Sour Grass Steak in Kalama

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: Now here’s a sentence I bet no one has constructed before: This is a tale of a crazed Canadian politician juggling and insulting a steak while in the process angering a future Washington Secretary of State to the point of near fisticuffs. The following article was found at random in the Dec. 16, 1895 issue of The Spokesman-Review. It recalls a visit to Kalama in…

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From Your Corner: Strait of Juan de Fuca

From Your Corner: Strait of Juan de Fuca

From Salt Creek looking north across the strait to Vancouver Island. Photo courtesy of Russ Veenema. Nearly 100 miles long, this waterway forms the international boundary between Canada’s Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula on the American side. The strait connects Puget Sound with the Pacific Ocean. Port Angeles is among the handful of towns located along its southern shore. According to “Washington State Place Names,” the strait was named in 1787 by English maritime fur trader Charles William Barkley…

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