Who needs to make up maritime ghost tales when you live near the graveyard of the Pacific? As Halloween approaches, we dug into the archives at Historylink.org to find some of the most horrifying shipwrecks in Pacific Northwest history. Throughout the decades, storms, shifting sand bars, collisions, poor navigation and plain old human error sent thousands of ships [...]

Twenty-five years ago this month, the pols in Aberdeen gave their blessing to building a replica tall ship to commemorate the discovery of Grays Harbor by Europeans. And thus was born the Lady Washington, which has gone on to educate tens of thousands of people in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.  Here’s the press release from [...]