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Scott Wilson...Featured Speaker On October 8th

Published on 8/21/2024

Port of PT

Scott Wilson, author of "Working Waterfront," was for almost 30 years the co-owner, editor and publisher of the Port Townsend Leader. Following retirement, he and wife Jennifer bought a Grand Banks and traveled twice to Alaska. They were briefly members of the Yacht Club. Wilson is now a communications consultant who does work for the Port and other clients.

About Scott's presentation: 
What has become the Port of Port Townsend began through the ambitions of a small group of town boosters who, in the early 1920s, wanted to blow wind into the sails of a struggling community. They soon used the new Port to attract to town a pulp mill (now Port Townsend Paper) and to build the first small marina. Thirty years later, that small marina - home of the Port Townsend Yacht Club - was quadrupled into what we now call the Boat Haven Marina. The Port's history is one of long lulls interrupted by great spurts of activity. Those spurts included the late 1950s when the Port acquired Point Hudson and the Jefferson County International Airport, and the early 1990s, when an ambitious company called Admiral Marine reshaped the working waterfront. The book, "Working Waterfront: 100 Years of the Port of Port Townsend," covers the people who shaped those events, including those who constructed Port Townsend's reputation for top-quality marine trades. The October 8 presentation will be a visual tour of Port history.