Gig Harbor Now and Then | The dumbest way to kill a shark
Jun 17, 2024E. E. may not have had all his Marbles, given his curious reaction to finding a shark on a beach near Rosedale in 1907.
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Gig Harbor Now and Then | You may be familiar with this former Post Office location
Jun 03, 2024The post office was in a well-known building at the corner of Harborview and Pioneer — for most of 1951, anyway.
Two in Tow & On the Go | Connections made in our 14 Names to Remember Project
May 24, 2024Merriam-Webster defines human connection as the state of being linked to another person or people through kinship or common interest. For me, human connection is the reason behind most of my writing.
One thing I’ve always said about my motivations for tracking down the names, dates, correct spellings, missing incident reports and the essential stories behind who these guys were is because I felt it was important to get the lives of these young men in front of people again. To put their stories, acts and sacrifices on the modern day record and not stuffed away in a printed-paper archive somewhere. And, with any luck, perhaps even attract the attention of their descendants who, in all likelihood, never found out the specifics of how their dad’s brother or their grandmother’s cousin fought and died in WWII.
14 Names to Remember | Arnold Boers
May 23, 2024Cpl. Arnold “Arn” Joseph Boers was born June 19, 1921, in Wapato, Washington, to Anna Henrica (Schoenmakers) Boers and Arnold Francis Boers Sr. In the 1930 U.S. Census, he had eight siblings: Margaret, Elizabeth, John, Cornelius, Johanna, Jack, Nellie and Robert Boers. At the time, the family lived in Seattle.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | These boots were made for walking … just not inside
May 20, 2024Before addressing the answer to the question from our last column, it’s worth mentioning that if you haven’t seen Tonya Strickland’s 14 Names to Remember project, a tribute to the Peninsula’s WW2 dead, there’s plenty of time left to do so. It’s well worth seeing. Unlike the granite monument in Kenneth Leo Marvin
Gig Harbor Now and Then | The state of Mississippi once owned over 300 acres of Gig Harbor land
May 06, 2024Gig Harbor Now and Then’s previous question concerns a specific piece of land inside the Gig Harbor city limits, granted by the federal government over 150 years ago for the exclusive benefit of education. The question is: What was the name of the government entity in possession of the land in 1872? Answer: The state of
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Which government agency originally owned the land where this school now stands?
Apr 22, 2024The last three Gig Harbor Now and Then columns have not posed any questions of local history. We will return to that format this week, somewhat under duress. There’s a rumor floating around that unless we return to posting questions, we might be replaced by a new column. If you think we’ve been writing boring
Gig Harbor native Gilich an assistant at ASU after long climb up coaching ladder
Apr 17, 2024Anthony Gilich can attest that profound life lessons can be learned on a baseball diamond. For the Gig Harbor native, one life-altering lesson came while serving as junior varsity baseball coach at Ellensburg High School during his final semester of college. To graduate from Central Washington University with his degree in communications, it was a
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Basketball in the old days was more shutout than shootout
Apr 08, 2024With the 2024 NCAA women’s basketball championship game having been played Sunday, April 7, and the men’s title being decided tonight, it’s timely that today’s Gig Harbor Now and Then column is all about local basketball — over a hundred years’ worth. Revisiting early basketball scores Back on Sept. 11, 2023, we presented the true but
Gig Harbor Now and Then | An April Fool’s true or false quiz
Apr 01, 2024Although not scheduled for a new column this week, Gig Harbor Now and Then hereby presents either a bonus issue or three completely unnecessary pages, depending upon how it’s received. Traditionally, April First is for spoofing, tricking and practical joking. But we’re not doing any of that. We’re going to tell you up front what