Don’t miss the General


Store’s upstairs gallery—an astonishing collection of maritime fauna and bits and pieces: glass floats and a diverse display of Puget Sound marine life including Geoducs, gigantic Alaskan Crabs, Turtle Crabs, and seashells. Look for the unusual “Sea Devil” or Skate tacked up onto a beam— and the armadillo! Downstairs, the Port


Gamble History Museum is superbly done. Stroll through dioramas of the town in its vibrant heyday as the commercial hub of the area. The museum’s logging scenes and artifacts, an Indian House made of split Cedar, a mock up of a Puget Hotel room, a furnished office, a ship’s cabin, and a beautifully furnished bedroom with elaborately carved bed and matching dressing table, and Victorian wallpaper, all take you back to the 1880’s when mill workers, wives, children and Indians bustled about their business on the town’s busy streets.


The General Store is a tourist shop and cafe with a fascinating marine museum upstairs.


sandwiches and salads, at the Tea Room. If you want a more substantive meal, try some of the delicious beef brisket, pulled pork, spare ribs, and smoked sausage at Mike’s Four Star BBQ at the old Gas Station on State Route 104. This is the town’s only dinner eatery, closing at 8 pm Wednesday through Saturday, and at 6 pm on Sundays. Other notable landmarks


on your tour include the Buena Vista Cemetery where you’ll meet the first tenant, U.S.


Drop by the Visitor Information


Center for brochures and browse at the Dauntless bookstore in the same house, and sample some of the high teas with scones smothered in clotted cream and strawberry preserves, soups,


Navy Coxswain Gustave Englebrecht of the U.S.S. Massachusetts, who met his demise in 1856, in a skirmish with Haida Indian raiders. Other notable buildings you’ll see are the Masonic Lodge, Chinese Worker Housing, a


The Artist’s View from the Waterfront


paintings by Larry Eifert www.boats.larryeifert.com


This month’s


“cover girl” is the Adventuress


See this painting and more of Eifert’s work at Gallery Nine, 1012 Water Street in Port Townsend.


Online at www.boats.larryeifert.com Paintings, limited edition prints and more from Estuary Press, Northwest publishers of Larry Eifert’s paintings.


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