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Photo by Rick by Moyer Photo Grays Harbor Coastal Currents is a quarterly Wine, gardens, mermaids and more can be found at the Westport Winery. See page 10. publication featuring original stories from Grays Harbor County and a resource guide of local art, music, theater, food and festivals. PUBLISHER Stan Woody GRAYS HARBOR • CREATIVE DIRECTOR Amy Ostwald COPY EDITOR 7 Inside summer issue Gail Greenwood Ayres
CONTRIBUTORS Award-winning Westport Winery Gail Greenwood Ayres • [email protected] 10 Marguerite Garth • [email protected] Rick Moyer • [email protected] 15 Rex Valentine: Storyteller, poet, musician & more Christine Vincent • [email protected] Juliana Wallace • [email protected] Explore Harbor craft breweries this summer Gregory E. Zschomler • [email protected] 21 GRAPHIC DESIGN Amy Ostwald, Ostwald Graphic Design 26 Chainsaw artists carve out a piece of history [email protected] or [email protected] WEB & SOCIAL MEDIA Bill Brown, pianist about town Paul Woody • [email protected] 35 ADVERTISING Stan Woody • [email protected] (830) 265-0190 Harbor theaters scheduling summer and fall plays 40 PRINTING JG Commercial Printers, Inc 43 Grays Harbor schedule of events DISTRIBUTION • USPS P. O. Box 261, Grayland, WA 98547 www.coastal-currents.com 47 Coastal Currents summer 2021 contributors [email protected] (830) 265-0190 send events to: [email protected] Cover: Kim Roberts, owner of the Westport Winery Garden Resort. Photo by Rick Moyer.
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After more than a year of being to bring this magazine free to you! closed-in and cloistered, the warmer Please honor and help them by summer weather and opportunity for Not even a world-wide patronizing them. Put your money outdoor entertainment and activities where your mouth is and show leaves us with optimism that our world pandemic can stop them how valuable they are to our is slowly getting back to normal in community! And while you are at it, do the wake of the ongoing Covid-19 artists from producing us a favor and let them know that you pandemic. saw their ad in the magazine! It helps art, musicians from them and us.) As you can imagine, publishing a magazine celebrating art, music, theater making music, writers The good news is that things really are and food in Grays Harbor has certainly opening back up again! been a challenge this last year when from writing and actors At press time for this summer issue, quarantine rules necessitated the however, some uncertainty still exists shutdown of plays, concerts, art shows, from honing their art. about whether society will close down museums and many restaurants, as well tighter again for a season. Thankfully, as the cancellation of much-anticipated And it certainly can’t we’ve selected stories about people festivals and celebrations. stop art lovers from and places that should be accessible Still, reporting on creative people regardless of quarantine concerns. gave us a leg up. Not even a world-wide appreciating creativity! Let’s start with our cover story on the pandemic can stop artists from producing Westport Winery Garden Resort. If art, musicians from making music, writers you travel on Highway 105, you can’t from writing and actors from honing their miss the oasis that Kim and Blain art. And it certainly can’t stop art lovers And while many restaurants, galleries, Roberts have built halfway between from appreciating creativity! museums, theaters and concert halls Westport and Aberdeen. There’s even a For some artists, their creativity genius took a financial hit during this time, lighthouse to show you the way! Either turned to exploring new ways and we predict a great resurgence in their before or after a meal, a bakery treat or mediums through which the audiences popularity after people realize, after a a glass of wine, take time to stroll the could experience the creations – virtual near starvation diet, how much the arts well-designed gardens filled with both concerts, drive-in celebrations, outdoor inspire and feed their souls. whimsical and reflective sculptures. performances, online Q and A’s about (So, before we go forward, we want Or, play one of the many outdoor games the creative process and more. For to look back and thank all of our available for adults and children. other creatives, the year served as a advertisers for allowing us to continue You may want to also explore the sort of sabbatical to nurture their own recently opened mermaid museum! creative process, take a break, delve into Tony Robinson, chainsaw carver. new genres, or just create, create, create Photo by Marguerite Garth (Continued on page 9) and simply wait to share their passion with others once it was easier to do so! Photo by Rick Moyer
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ith more than 500 medals for their wine, a “Top Five Winery Restaurants” awarded twice by USA Today for their restaurant, rave reviews for their lovely gardens replete with art, an extensive gift shop and a new distillery, the Westport Winery Garden Resort has become a “place to go to” not just for Grays Harbor residents, but also for people throughout Washington State. And if that isn’t enough to entice you to visit the winery, perhaps you’d be interesting in visiting the latest addition: Owner Kim Roberts a unique mermaid museum that opened this spring. Kim and Blain Roberts, along with their daughter Carrie, have turned 20 acres of unwanted and undeveloped land halfway between Westport and Aberdeen along State Route 105 into a top-tier American destination. A force to be reckoned with, Kim Roberts describes herself as “an architect, developer and seat-of-the- pants entrepreneur.” Each new creative addition to the Westport Winery Resort has brought accolades and financial success for her and her family, but her life has not always been so sweet. Photos (left & above) by Rick by Moyer (left & above) Photos 10 www.Coastal-Currents.com The Wines When the Roberts acquired the Arbor Road property, their original plan was to grow blueberries or Christmas trees. Fortuitously, they consulted with former WSU Master Gardener Don Tapio before advancing. He deemed that a small farm such as theirs could only survive if they sold directly to the consumer. He told them, “Plant a vineyard and build a winery. It will be historic.” Since neither Kim nor Blain really drank, they were skeptical, but Tapio was convinced the couple had the tools When Kim moved to Westport as a needed to be successful and the wine- 17-year-old, she tried unsuccessfully making was something that could be to hire on as a deckhand. She was learned. Many mentors have played a admonished that “girls don’t work hand in forming the extensive wine list on boats.” Undeterred, she found a now available at the winery and from captain who would try her out for no the onset a wine consultant has been pay. She worked as a maid and lived in on retainer. Currently 42 different wines a trailer when the boat docked until she are available for purchase. proved herself to be indispensable And, while the vineyards they and was hired as a fulltime originally planted have deckhand. With what “We harvest now been replaced with she earned, Kim was extensive gardens, all able to put herself grapes from our the wine is made on through college, favorite vineyards in the property. where she earned Eastern Washington, drive dual degrees them over the mountains, “We harvest grapes in architectural from our favorite science and crush, press, ferment, filter vineyards in architecture. and bottle all of Eastern Washington, drive them over the “Although there were them here.” mountains, crush, press, few women working – Kim Roberts ferment, filter and bottle all on boats in those days, for of them here,” Kim explains. those of us who gave it a try, we were able to prove ourselves and find Connoisseurs may want to look tremendous opportunities as a result,” into joining the winery’s wine club. she says. “Those were the best days of Membership is free and comes with my life and they changed the course of complimentary tasting of five pours in my life. I will forever be grateful.” the tasting room for a member and four guests, as well as discounts on wine and It was in Westport that Kim met Blain gift shop items. Members receive two Roberts in 1988. He owned a diving bottles of wine per quarter based on business in Maui and convinced her the club they sign up for, but exchanges to marry him and move to the island, are allowed. but she “made him promise” that they would someday return to her beloved Not only are the award-winning wines Harbor. Seventeen years and many sumptuous but the labels are also successful ventures later, the Roberts striking. Blain’s surfing partner, Darryl purchased the land in 2005 and the rest, Easter from California, contributed as they say, is history. numerous labels that are beautifully Photo by Rick by Moyer Photo www.Coastal-Currents.com Summer 2021 Coastal Currents MAGAZINE 11 water colored. Other labels are created distilleries and came away feeling crafted from the Purple Reign lavender from artwork from local artists including inspired. Kim approached this challenge lemon gin, lavender infusion, lemonade, Wally Mann, Dr. Brian McGregor and with the same creativity and “seat-of- and lavender seeds. Another option is Barbara Sampson. Kim also created the the-pants” entrepreneurship that is her ordering a martini tasting flight. artwork for several of the labels herself. hallmark and the distillery has taken off. Kim designed the glass-walled distillery The Sea Glass Grill The majority of the ingredients used tasting addition in a “goldfish bowl” Westport Winery Garden Resort draws in the spirits are locally sourced. In shape, which is adjacent to the restaurant. even those who don’t enjoy wine. Many addition, fruits and botanicals The room shimmers as the light come just to experience a relaxed meal at from the winery’s own reflects off the colored glass Rick by Moyer Photo the inviting restaurant or pick up dessert gardens are used to bottles and the gorgeous to enjoy during a picnic on the beach. infuse the spirits. labels all created from “We learned her artwork. Each spirit “We named the restaurant the Sea “We learned early is distinctively named Glass Grill, not because it is seafood, but that our guests early that our from a mermaid or because we love the treasures of the enjoy variety,” seafaring legends sea,” says Kim of the lovely dining room says Blain. And guests enjoy of yore. overlooking the gardens. variety they do indeed have with variety.” The Gardens The award-winning restaurant nine different Designed to resemble includes some seafood entrees but – Blain Roberts imaginatively infused a Coast Guard station, also homemade breads and tempting vodkas, a variety of the winery features a desserts. Brunch is served all day. liqueurs, and an assortment 40-foot lighthouse nestled Ocean’s Daughter Distillery of whiskies, gins and rums. in 15 acres of bucolic gardens. Just before Covid-19 hit, the Roberts The gardens feature more than 60 Guests can enjoy inventive cocktails opened a distillery at the resort. Kim original sculptures by local artists as they dine that are created from the and daughter Carrie had traveled commemorating each of the winery’s infused spirits and other interesting around the country researching different labels as well as different garden themes. ingredients such as the “Lavender Drop,”
Owner Blain Roberts serves wine in the tasting room. Photos by Rick Moyer: left column and top two in middle column. Sculpture by Jeffro Uitto and Yoseph Adams.
12 Coastal Currents MAGAZINE www.Coastal-Currents.com with mermaids. She says, “I even swim with the mermaid kick when I dive.” Growing up she says, “I either wanted to be a lighthouse keeper or be a mermaid,” and she has come close to achieving both goals. The International Mermaid Museum’s mission is “to teaching ocean ecology
Photo by Rick by Moyer Photo from seashore to sea floor immersed in For example, the world famous grunge mermaid mythology unifying oceanic rock band, Nirvana has a wine label that cultures.” is commemorated by a large driftwood “We’re pairing mermaid mythology with replica of Kurt Cobain’s guitar created ocean ecology,” with the goal of making by Tokeland artist Jeffro Uitto. the museum more “approachable for In addition to Uitto, other artists kids and informative for adults.” Kim whose sculptures are displayed in the says. “I thought that we’ve had this sprawling gardens include Yoseph wonderful life working on the ocean Adams, Sherryl Jackson, Frank Ratte, and in the ocean, and a lot of people Kim Malakoff, Nicole Demment, Mark don’t have the opportunity to do that. Simbe, Mike Peterson, Peggy Kala We wanted to share that underwater Hubacker, Lora Malakoff, Carrie Larson, experience.” Abe Singer, Lisa Humbyrd Murphy, The museum includes informative Beau Finley, Warren Heathers, Ernest displays interspersed with mermaid Kunz, Kimmi Kerns, Tyler Hansen, Travis mannequins floating overhead. Check Highlander, Johnny and Darlene Camp, the website for scheduled live mermaid and David Thompson. Sculpture by Yoseph Adams. performances. Garth Marguerite by Photo In the gardens, as well as enjoying all the flowers, plants and sculptures, As the museum’s founder, Kim says guests can navigate a labyrinth, toss she heard the siren’s call to create the some horseshoes, play a game of wizard museum after undergoing cancer chess, take on nine holes in the free treatment. “Four years ago, it started to orchard golf course or play the unique matter to me what I was leaving,” she disc golf course, which includes “holes” says. “We didn’t know if I would still be Photo by Marguerite Garth Marguerite by Photo that create musical tones when hit. here today. This is my legacy.” There is something for everyone to With enthusiasm and creativity still enjoy – even pets. Leashed dogs can radiating from her and a winery, roam the dog garden and children love distillery, gift shop, restaurant, extensive to play on the musical fence. gardens and now a museum successfully The Mermaid Museum underway, one can’t help but wonder As if there weren’t enough to see and what new creative endeavor Kim and do already at Westport Winery Garden Blain might think up next! Resort, in April the International For more information about Westport Mermaid Museum was added. Winery Garden Resort, explore the website at www.westportwinery.com or call (360) Live mermaid at museum grand opening.
The museum explores the mythological Garth Marguerite by Photo creatures that have appeared in folklore 648-2224. Open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. around the world for thousands of years. Some stories include these Update: Fire destroys distillery beautiful beings luring men to their The distillery at Westport Winery Garden Resort was destroyed by fire May 15. Initial reports death while others tell of mermaids indicated that no one was hurt, no cause was rescuing shipwrecked men. known, and that the Roberts plan to rebuild the facility. The resort remains open for daily business. As a longtime diver, Kim has felt a bond Photo by Rick by Moyer Photo www.Coastal-Currents.com Summer 2021 13 Beautify Your Landscape!Garden Compost Ground Cover Bark Consists of 25% mushroom compost, dairy Bark 3/8” to 7/8” in size manure, and ne bark mulch. A superb soil & is void of any nes. conditioner for vegetable and ower gardens. $25 per yard $32 per yard
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Mention you saw the ad in Coastal Currents Magazine www.Coastal-Currents.com Summer 2021 Coastal Currents MAGAZINE 15 (Continued) Valentine married young, eventually Rex Valentine raising a blended family of 11 children. He built several successful careers “ In a poem, you can experiences into verse. His poetry through the years, including real estate captures the stories of his childhood for and dairy farming. Along the way, he say as much in one his grandchildren and preserves a rich grew proficient at dowsing, the practice history of Western Washington in the of using divining rods to locate water line as you can say first half of the twentieth century. for digging wells. in a whole page Valentine credits his Montesano High School English teacher, John of a story.” Terry, with cementing his interest in writing poetry. However, other – Rex Valentine concerns soon intervened, and poetry fell to the back burner. she had carefully saved his early poems. He began writing again, entering poetry contests and eventually publishing six books of poetry and stories. Intent on honing his craft, he enrolled in a college poetry writing class in his sixties. The additional polish did the trick, and he started winning national and international contests. By 2004, Valentine earned Preserve Beauty induction into the World Congress of Poets, an The little pansy poked its pretty face international organization up through the concrete crevice on the walk. dedicated to promoting It’s singleness of purpose filled the space, world brotherhood and peace through poetry. a tiny crack made for one spindly stalk. Now why would nature send its beauty queen to grace a graying path of cement stone, Above: In addition to writing several volumes of poetry, where careless feet its royalty dethrone? Valentine is also a gifted vocalist and composer. Right: Over the decades, Valentine has built a The Lord of beauty, love, and elegance, reputation as a proficient dowser, with a 95 percent success rate at finding water for wells. is not particular where sows his seeds. A drab and dingy place he might enhance Music accompanied Valentine with lovely flowers ‘mid the grisly weeds. throughout his adult life. In addition to composing, he has sung for audiences So little purple pansy hold your ground. across the Pacific Northwest. In fact, he May beauty be a beacon to your place, sang baritone in a barbershop quartet that all who pass go carefully around that won a national championship in 1963, and also sang the national anthem and see the smile upon your pretty face. at local sports events for 45 years. – Rex Valentine Then, in 2002, Valentine’s mother passed away, and he discovered that
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Wildflowers and Love (Sonnet #24) A prairie harbors treasures found in spring. Its see-through grassy dress will come alive with Nature’s own corsage; a lovely thing, in one line as you can say in a whole whose brill’ant colors suddenly arrive. page of a story.” The yellow Johnny jump-ups set the pace. And those verses do spin wonderful The violets and bluebells follow suit. tales, from dragsaw days to weeding the rutabaga patch, trapping skunks and Wild strawberry’s white blossoms fill the space resurrecting an old Model T Ford. Along where later, one can pick its sweet red fruit. the way, the reader meets a delightful cast of characters, falling into the Nostalgically, my grandmother I see, rhythm of a life lived to its fullest. she’s stooping down, her apron spreading wide Valentine has written several volumes of (Continued on page 18) enveloping the flowers picked for me. award-winning poetry, a children’s book, a Her sparkling eyes meet mine with love and pride. book on dowsing and numerous songs.
Oh prairie, take me back to long lost joy, To Grandma’s love, and flowers for this boy.
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He still serves on the board of the organization and was featured as the guest poet of the 2014 conference in Osaka, Japan. As a poet, Valentine writes a broad range of poetic forms, from long narrative poems to sonnets, villanelles and hsinku verses (a Chinese form similar to haiku). His folksy, often humorous, style draws the audience in, enchanting listeners of all ages. While many of his poems recount stories, he explains that he chose poetry over prose because 412 360 24 4611 “poetry is much more to the point, more 6 5 5 refined. In a poem, you can say as much • Beauty Bark • Top Soil • Compost Propane Decor • Beauty Bark Top Farm Feed • Chicks • Hay & Straw • Boots & Clothing www.Coastal-Currents.com Summer 2021 Coastal Currents MAGAZINE 17 (Continued) To discover Valentine’s work, check out Rex Valentine his website at www.rexbvalentine.com. Do you have information about an In addition to several books of poetry upcoming festival, play, concert, art show, or food-related event? and a volume on dowsing, he has also Please submit it to Coastal Currents written an acclaimed children’s story, for consideration to be included in From Belt to Suspenders “Tiddlywinks, the Little Horse with our online calendar and/or fall issue. Three Ears.” Just e-mail all the particulars to (Sonnet #9) [email protected] My belt size is increasing as I am growing older. I’m really not obesing, ELMA FARM STAND • A Fresh Market just narrowing my shoulders. 617 E. Young St. Elma, WA • 360-482-3050 But now my pants are dragging; my belt is at a tilt. SMOOTHIE So I have stopped all bragging & JUICE BAR about how well I’m built. MEAT FRESH MARKET PRODUCE I think I’ll wear suspenders; they’ll give me peace of mind, SOUPS & and when I’m doing benders SANDWICHES you won’t see my behind. SEAFOOD & BEER & SMOKED FISH WINE Does it really matter if I keep getting fatter? ICE CREAM PEPPERONI SPECIALTY – Rex Valentine & JERKY GROCERIES
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STORY & PHOTOS BY MARGUERITE GARTH the brewery. Another thread is that Mount Olympus Brewing est. 2018 several started as home brewers who 105 W. Heron Street, Aberdeen rawn by the attractive real developed a fan base and decided to Open 2-7:30 Monday - Thursday, 2 -10 estate prices and affordable show their skills on a more public stage. Friday, noon to 10 Saturday, 11 to rents, six great craft breweries operate Third, most of the breweries give back 6:30 Sunday. to the community by holding events now in Grays Harbor and Pacific Orlando Maldonado, head brewer and and fundraisers and by buying local. counties. Breweries need quite a lot part owner, started as a home brewer of space to operate, space that would If you haven’t had a chance to visit yet, in 2012. He says, “I enjoy cooking, so it’s be prohibitive in pricier parts of here are our local craft breweries: like cooking for eight hours” ... and then Washington, especially for a small start- waiting for four weeks “before you can up operation. Orlando Maldonado of Mount Olympus Brewing in front even try it.” of the fermenter and a beer tank. One common thread for the local The home brewing became an brewery owners is a passion for their obsession that he wanted to turn into craft. Some of the owners work full-time a career. Along with partner James jobs in other fields to afford to maintain Lundgren, Maldonado sought out investors who have turned into an “all- Windows look into the brewery equipment room from star team who believe in the product the interior of the pub at Mount Olympus Brewing. and the brand,” and the brewery became a reality. There are innovative beers and ales on tap with most of the flavors and ingredients coming from local sources, such as malts from Skagit Valley barley and coffee from Ocean Beach Roasters for a coffee-infused beer. No food is available as of yet but plans are in the works to make the back-parking lot a restaurant venue with a fire pit and music. Maldonado says, “My hope is (Continued on page 22)
www.Coastal-Currents.com Summer 2021 Coastal Currents MAGAZINE 21 are welcome to bring their food inside The men found an equipment (Continued) Breweries to enjoy with their beer. manufacturer in Portland and a 1929 building in Hoquiam with “great bones” that the hard work and dedication to The on-tap selection is an impressive (formerly a grocery store and a senior this endeavor shows in every smell and mix of British-type ales, house-brewed center). And, in 2017, after a total rehab, sip of Mount Olympus Brewing beer.” German lagers, along with some they opened the brewery. They credit unusual blends, such as the Lavaduala Steam Donkey Brewing Co. est. 2017 head brewer, Drew Granneman, with Saison, which is a farmhouse ale brewed 101 E. Wishkah Street, Aberdeen being a “wizard” and their first three with a “touch of lavender.” The food Open 3-8 Monday - Thursday; 3-9 Friday; beers, Hoquiam IPA, Boots & Shorts truck is known for its sliders and tater tots. 2-9 Saturday and 10-5 Sunday. Blonde and Captain 12 Milk Stout have The owners of the brewery, John and Hoquiam Brewing Co. est. 2017 become “flagships.” There are other Stephanie Bennett, are both Aberdeen 526 8th Street, Hoquiam beers on tap to try as well as a couple High School graduates. Their mission Open 11-8 Monday - Thursday, and 11-9 of hand-crafted ciders. Pizza and says: “Steam Donkey focuses on Friday and Saturday. Closed on Sunday. sandwiches are served, and a kitchen and menu expansion is on the horizon. brewing relaxed and inquisitive beer Rob Paylor and Patrick Durney met in a friendly environment. The bar is while working at the Galway Bay Irish open to share our passion for beer and Pub in Ocean Shores. They formed a John & Stephanie Bennett, owners of Steam Donkey Brewing Co. in Aberdeen. welcome curious spectators.” bond over their mutual love John was working for another brewery of beer. In 2013, they opened when an opportunity arose for the Mill 109 Restaurant & Pub at storefront on Wishkah Street. The Seabrook. But what they both community pitched in to help with the really wanted to do was to project and the brewery opened its brew their own beer. doors four years ago. The location is too Hoquiam Brewing Co.’s ‘industrial chic’ renovated interior. small for a kitchen so the Bennetts creatively solved that problem by parking a food truck on the side street next to the brewery, which has proved to be very popular. Patrons
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26 Coastal Currents MAGAZINE Summer 2021 www.Coastal-Currents.com NORTH BEACH Chainsaw artists carve out a piece of Grays Harbor history STORY CHRISTINE VINCENT spaces on his property. He’s already PHOTOS BY MARGUERITE GARTH constructed one 8-foot-by-12-foot I bought a chainsaw prototype cabin to house an artist. Grays Harbor has rich carver history he fantastic creations of chainsaw and made a mess of it. Chainsaw carving art has a rich history carver Anthony Robinson easily in Grays Harbor. In fact, inside the Sooz catch the eye of passersby as they Rusty Nail antique store in Ocean City is spy his Native Beach Art just off State – Tony Robinson the home of the Judy McVay Museum of Route 109 at Copalis Crossing. Chainsaw Carving. Tony carves everything imaginable, Sooz Rusty Nail owners Sue Darcy from the customary bears, eagles, top to create a waterfall and drilled and McNall Mason, tell the surprising Sasquatches and horses to forest and holes into natural shelves to hold water story of a pioneering woman chainsaw sea creatures and mythical beings. His plants. “The sound of the water falling in artist, Judy McVay. McVay is the nearly 15-foot Poseidon statue can be admired the cedar hollow is beautiful,” he says. forgotten creator of familiar North at the Seabreeze Gallery at Hogan’s Beach landmarks such as the “Welcome Corner. In spite of Covid-19, Tony’s Native Beach Art is doing well, with orders backed up, to Ocean Shores” sign and the iconic Raised on a farm in Ohio, Tony built including a 13-foot Bigfoot waterfall. Lake Quinault Lodge rain gauge. In luxury homes for a living. However, addition, she collaborated with her when his marriage failed in 2011, he Not only does Tony enjoy creating art brother Mike McVay on the Humptulips ended up in Westport, depressed and himself, he plans to give back to the Cemetery sign. The small museum penniless. He began fashioning jewelry art community by providing rent-free opened this year. from beachcombed stones and (Continued on page 28) sea glass. One day, when he came across a large piece of driftwood, he felt the urge to carve it into a wolf. “I bought a chainsaw and made a mess of it,” he remembers. Having found his vocation, he has been chainsaw carving prolifically ever since, with growing skill and infectious enthusiasm. In 2015, Tony opened his current shop in Copalis Crossing, where he has access to low-cost logs; something that is important, considering his penchant for large pieces. One of his recent projects is a gigantic bar waterfall, carved from a hollow cedar “gun barrel” log. Loggers cannot use hollow trees but Tony’s ever- inventive mind has found a purpose for them. He has carved the outside, inserted water hoses all the way to the Anthony Robinson (pictured on facing page) is planning to house artists on his property in cabins like this prototype. www.Coastal-Currents.com Summer 2021 Coastal Currents MAGAZINE 27 (Continued) of the time. Judy soon was Chainsaw able to support her family by carving signs. It was while “picking” antiques for the store a while She created thousands back that Sue and McNall of beautiful folk art signs, came across a beautiful many of which can still be discarded Copalis Beach found on the coast today. Automotive sign, bearing Sooz Rusty Nail houses a the carver’s signature, magnificent, 19-foot mural Judy McVay. from the former Neil’s Clover Patch restaurant in “We discovered that Judy’s Langley, depicting foods amazing carvings were set out on a long table. everywhere, but that nobody Anthony Robinson with a smaller carving he created in collaboration with Carol Frances ”Judy was a painter before remembered her,” says Sue. Senecal-Delu of Ocean Shores, an artist who does wood burning. she began carving,” Judy is a great-grandmother explains Sue of the unique carving style. today and is retired outside of “She was also fascinated with stained Grays Harbor. We discovered that Judy’s glass. In this mural, she has recreated So, Sue and McNall have made it their the look of stained glass.” amazing carvings were mission to restore the memory of this In addition to supporting her family everywhere ... Judy is a amazing chainsaw carving pioneer. with her art, Judy McVay made history Sooz Rusty Nail displays two large great-grandmother today as the first female chainsaw carver in murals carved by Judy. More items and is retired outside of Washington State. She baffled her male are to follow. The last surviving totem fellow carvers by routinely placing pole carved by the artist is soon to Grays Harbor. ahead of them in competitions. be installed in the store. In addition, the two folk historians have created a – Sue Darcy “The guys at the Puyallup Fair used to beautiful brochure with a self-guided dread her arrival, hoping she would not tour of Judy’s work, and a kiosk in a come,” says Sue. “She used to show up in In 1969, Judy McVay and her itinerant corner of the store. Their eloquently her truck at the last minute.” logger husband Dick Backus divorced, written and well-researched history of leaving her stranded in Humptulips Judy’s daughter, Lynn, continued the Judy McVay and her chainsaw-carving with three young children, Steve, Lynn tradition of female chainsaw artists and clan is a labor of love, published on and Boaz. In 1970, Judy’s chainsaw- later even helped teach Tony Robinson two websites: soozrustynail.com and artist brother Mike taught her how to to carve. And Judy’s sons, Steve and carveorstarve.org. carve with the heavy gas-powered saws Boaz Backus, also followed the family tradition.
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28 Coastal Currents MAGAZINE Summer 2021 www.Coastal-Currents.com A ‘family’ of carvers Right: Judy McVay carved this eagle for the American Recently Tony Robinson was among the Legion Post 141 where she served as women’s auxiliary president. Below right: This stain glass-inspired mural area chainsaw carvers to attend a fundraiser by Judy McVay used to hang in Neil’s Clover Park restau- for Judy’s son, Boaz Backus, a carver who rant in Langley. was recovering from a heart attack. Among the roar of five or six running Hosted by Ivan and Maria Haas, saws and a fragrant cloud of sawdust, owners of the Ocean City Market Place, Steve Backus could be seen using a many carvers came to the aid of their propane burner to add black accents fellow artist. to the surface of an eagle sculpture. courtesyPhoto of Judy McVay He created the eagle especially for the auction to benefit his brother. His display also includes older pieces, such as an animated elephant relief. A small sailboat on a curly sea, beautiful in its simplicity, shows that Steve, like his mother, has taken chainsaw carving from craft to the level of art. At the fundraiser for his brother, Steve Backus shared some of his encyclopedic Judy McVay’s Lake Quinault Lodge rain gauge is one of area’s the most photographed landmarks. knowledge of chainsaw art history. (Continued on page 31) Photo by Christine Vincent Christine by Photo
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He talked about the arrival of the Vincent Christine by Photos commercial chainsaw in the 1950s and about his uncle Mike McVay carving an Easter Island head at Eel Lake, Oregon, in 1956, which may have been the very first chainsaw carving. The art of chainsaw carving may actually have been born right here in the Pacific Northwest. In his research, Steve has not been able to find any early chainsaw artists on the East Coast. The McVay-Backus family has certainly played a major role in the practice and promotion of the art of chainsaw carving. The elephant is one of Steve Backus’ favorite pieces. This sailboat represents the characteristic folk style of Steve Backus. Recuperating after his heart attack, Boaz’s greatest worry is that he might and loading them onto trucks.” about $650,000 (over the years). He has not be able to carve anymore. helped so many others, now we are Thankfully, Boaz is also a gifted helping him.” His brother Steve explains. “Carving auctioneer. ”He is the benchmark is only part of the job. It’s like a auctioneers measure themselves (Continued on page 32) construction job, moving heavy pieces against,” says Steve. “Boaz has raised
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You may have recently seen Bill Photo courtesyPhoto of Bill Brown Brown lending his piano chops to the Toons concert streamed by Grays Harbor College’s Bishop Center for the Performing Arts. Or you may know him as the worship leader at Immanuel Baptist Church in Hoquiam. Perhaps you know him in another capacity— pastor, friend, teacher or family man. But if you know him at all, surely you know that the 41-year-old is a pianist extraordinaire. “Bill is one of the most talented musicians I’ve ever played with, and yet still so humble,” says singer/songwriter Ericka Corban. “He is fun to work with and has a genuine heart and love for people.” Bill grew up in Grays Harbor, attending Aberdeen schools, then moved away and returned. His story begins at a crossroad where church and music intersect, as they often do. He grew up Bill performing on stage. hearing and playing hymns and classical music. The only secular music he says he Heart and Soul really listened to was The Beatles. In 1998, after high school, Bill attended “Bill is one of the the University of Southern California where he studied, not music, but most talented international relations. It was there he musicians I’ve ever discovered he didn’t like politics.
Photo by Rick by Moyer Photo played with, and “I was in a class about foreign relations yet still so humble.” with China during the year of the Al Gore versus George W. Bush presidential –singer/songwriter race,” Bill says. Watching his classmates Ericka Corban engage in an animated discussion. “It was then that I knew that I didn’t care.” However, during his senior year at It was in second grade, while attending USC, he studied abroad in Hong Kong. Immanuel, that his mother signed There he discovered someone he was him up for piano lessons with Judy passionate about: Jesus. Reynvaan who has taught, shaped and inspired a generation of Harbor pianists “I had a real option to grow in my faith,” (including Bill’s uncle Lew, who played he says. “God seemed to ask, ‘Is your life about town, and musical theater pianist about you or me?’ ” Bill Brown, his wife Jacy and their two boys Emmett (Continued on page 36) and Isaiah at the YMCA in Hoquiam. Alex Eddy). www.Coastal-Currents.com Summer 2021 Coastal Currents MAGAZINE 35 Bill Brown (Continued)
After teaching Spanish for a year at is priceless,” says Wil Russoul, local Hoquiam High School, Bill decided to musician and downtown leader. “I can attend Western Seminary in Portland. recall a performance at the Bishop There, “when passionate discussions Center where another act was late and happened in my theology class I asked Bill to go out on stage and wow I did care.” them. He did!” He earned his master’s in theology and “He’s a blessing to our community and Photo courtesyPhoto of Bill Brown lived in Oregon from 2003 to 2015. It his teaching piano to countless others Bill Brown was there that he met Jacy, now his no doubt will have a large beautiful wife of 13 years. They have two boys, impact to our Grays Harbor music Bill notes that he almost quit piano Emmett and Isaiah. world,” Wil says. in middle school. He says his mom In 2015 Bill returned to the Harbor when outsmarted him though. She cited the the church of his youth called him to be years of lessons invested in him and their associate pastor to lead worship. told him he had to continue until his While he wears a lot of different hats at senior year in high school, then, if he Immanuel, worship leading is the most “Music brings joy, still wanted, he could quit. As if his mom visible one. could see the future, around his junior and I like that.” year he fell in love with tickling Play me a song, I’m the piano man –Bill Brown the ivories. With 11 years of lessons under his belt, Bill still practices piano two hours nearly By then music – especially church music every day. And it shows. – had become a deeply entrenched part of him. Since then he not only plays for “Bill’s skill level is straight out of heaven Immanuel, but has played piano bars in and his ability to just sit in and play the Olympia area, a local coffeehouse gig in Aberdeen, other local events Bill and fellow worship musicians play for a live-stream broadcast from Immanuel Baptist Church, in Hoquiam. and has even lent his talents to playing in the pit for the 7th Street Kids production of “Matilda” – something he would love to do again. Bill now splits his time between Immanuel Baptist in Hoquiam and teaching at his Grays Harbor Piano Academy, 228 W. Market St., in Aberdeen, which he founded in September of 2019. “Every single day I go into my studio I love it!” In the beginning he says, “I took a couple of students, now I have 50!” “I don’t want to see parents in the position (my parents were in), fighting their kids over practice. I’m not just trying to teach kids music – I want to help kids love music.” “The conversation is the same. It’s like scripted. I hear it over and over. People (Continued on page 39) Photo by Carolyn Greer Carolyn by Photo
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Movie Music: John Williams is, hands without blackout dates.” He says that Bill’s eclectic influences and interests down, Bill’s favorite composer. He says, for him and his classmates, “it was are reflected in his playful yet masterful “I relive movies I’ve enjoyed through possibly an unhealthy escape from the music. His journeys and life experiences the soundtrack. I am always amazed at pressures of life. We called it going to have taught him three things, he says. how the music alone can recreate the ‘the goodness.’” film in my mind.” His first movie memory One, “I’m so glad to be back here in is from when he was four years old Gospel: At USC Bill got into urban/black Grays Harbor. It’s just the greatest watching “Return of the Jedi” with his gospel music. He joined the school’s blessing.” gospel choir and he says, “an entire dad. He’s loved Star Wars ever since. Two, “Jesus is very real.” other universe was opened up to me. Disney: A child of the 80s, he grew up My playing was very affected by that – And, three, “Music brings joy, and watching the Disney Channel, visiting how I play modern music, even hymns.” I like that.” Disneyland several times with his family, and loving Disney’s animated features While urban/black gospel is a style all its Bill Brown can be reached at Grays of the 90s (including “Beauty and the own, it has developed over time from Harbor Piano Academy, 228 W. Market Beast,” “The Little Mermaid,” “The Lion blues and jazz influences – the true St. in Aberdeen, at bill@harborpiano. King,” and “Aladdin”). American music – with its roots in island com or through his website: cultures and the spirituals of African- www.harborpiano.com “During my days at USC you could get Americans. It has not only affected pop an annual Disney park pass for $200 music but also the music of the Church.
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BY GAIL GREENWOOD AYRES perform its last five shows in a typical Performing way. However, three of them were It’s awfully hard to perform live theater “ available to patrons via the internet. without a live audience, but the days of theater without the shuttered playhouse doors seems to be “Performing theater without the drawing to a close. Some area theaters audience reaction is audience reaction is really different for have live performances scheduled for really different for the actors,” said Terry Rogers, Driftwood this summer or fall. president. “The audiences participate the actors.” whether they realize it or not by their 7th Street Kids – Terry Rogers reactions. Not getting the laughs and The 7th Street Kids program will present Driftwood president the responses is hard, but so far the actors two different plays this summer by have just done a wonderful job,” she said. separate groups of kids. Performances are set for 7:30 p.m. Driftwood is optimistic about having The three-week workshop will present Thursday – Saturday, July 29-31, and a live audience in September for “The “Winnie-the Pooh KIDS,” directed by 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 1. Admission is $5 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Karin Noble. Performances are set for for those 12 years and younger, $10 for Time.” The play by Simon Stephens is 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 16, and 2 p.m. students and seniors, and $15 for adults. based on a bestselling novel by Mark Saturday, July 17, at the 7th St. Theatre in For more information, visit their Haddon. It was originally scheduled for Hoquiam. Admission is $10 per person, website at 7thstreetkids.org. the spring of 2020. $5 for those 12 years and younger. Driftwood Players “How it will look just depends on what The six-week workshop will present The Driftwood Players wasn’t able to the governor says and what is going on “Frozen Jr.,” directed by Kendall Cavin. with Covid-19 and how many people will be allowed to have in the theater itself,” Rogers said. Bishop Center for Performing Arts As for the Grays Harbor College Bishop Center, administrator Arlene Torgerson said nothing has been programmed for the summer, adding that the college will continue its virtual entertainment in the fall and hopes to offer live performances in 2022. “Decisions need to be made months in 15 TAPS • WINE • GREAT FOOD advance for scheduling and booking artists or activities,” Torgerson explained. House-Made STEAK • PASTA • CHICKEN • SEAFOOD “We can only make decisions based on current guidelines which limit the amount of patrons we can have at a performance. This limits the amount of ticket sales we have to help cover the cost of performances,” she said, adding STEAK BITES • FREE that sponsors and donors have made it APPETIZER • $12 VALUE possible to offer virtual programming up t at s rig t EE Clip t is oupon an o e on in Expires 8/31/21 • Coastal Currents during the pandemic at no cost.
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40 Coastal Currents MAGAZINE Summer 2021 www.Coastal-Currents.com is presenting a variety of radio theater shows at 7 p.m. each Sunday on KOSW, 91.3 FM, out of Ocean Shores. The shows include suspense, drama, comedy and mystery presentations. For more information about these plays from the golden age of radio, go to Stagewestcommunitytheatre.org. Plank Island Theatre At the new Plank Island Theatre group, co-founder Julayne Fleury said “Writing Wrongs,” a series of original monologues, will be performed virtually in June. To learn more, visit plankislandtheatre.com. Aberdeen Shakespearean Theatre According to the Aberdeen Shakespearean Theatre’s Facebook page, “there will definitely be a Shakespeare show this summer.” Check the group’s Facebook page for up-to-date scheduling information.
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46 Coastal Currents MAGAZINE Summer 2021 www.Coastal-Currents.com Meet the Coastal Currents summer 2021 contributors
Gail Greenwood Ayres was Marguerite Garth Rick Moyer bitten by the writing bug is an artist, writer and is a local radio personality starting with the Room 3 photographer living by the with Alpha Media Grays News in second grade. A ocean in North Cove. Her Harbor on KIX 95.3 and Pacific Lutheran University work has been exhibited 104.7 KDUX. He started journalism graduate, she worldwide and her Moyer Multi Media 10 years worked for years as a daily photography has earned ago. Rick is a photographer newspaper journalist, awards in more than 30 and has been capturing then as a communications international contests. images since he was a specialist for the City of Her most recent series teenager. He and his wife, Tacoma. In the 1990s she “Dune Grass” was selected Amy, can be seen at many created a Russian/American by the Seattle Office of public events doing video, newspaper, “New Life.” Now, Arts and Culture for their photo booths, portraits and she enjoys freelance writing, permanent collection. She more. Rick is fascinated with editing and marketing says, “I feel lucky to live in media work. He loves the on a wide variety of projects such a beautiful area.” Pacific Northwest where he from her home in Brady, was born and raised. which she shares with her husband and two daughters.
Juliana Wallace Christine Vincent Gregory E. Zschomler Juliana Wallace brings was born and raised in hails from SW Washington an eclectic history of Germany. She received her and studied music, theater professional writing to her master’s degree in English and media at Clark College work. A former technical Language and Literature and Washington State writer, blogger and from the University of University-Vancouver. The biographer, she currently Utrecht in the Netherlands. Aberdeen resident holds divides her time between She has worked as a bachelor degrees in the marketing writing and local freelance writer and Humanities and Digital journalism. Having traveled translator for more than Technologies and Culture. and lived throughout the 30 years. In 1993, she came He is a writer, author, editor United States, Juliana has to the Harbor with her and publisher at work on fallen in love with the husband Mark and their first his fourteenth book. He and Pacific Northwest. Whether two children, six more were his wife were founders of running along rainforest born in Hoquiam. Christine Harbor Books, now under trails, hiking in the has been writing about the new ownership in Hoquiam. backcountry or discovering Harbor and its people online They’re also the owner- art in unexpected places, at “Grays Harbor Talk” since operators of Harbor House she loves to experience and 2015, specializing in the arts Writers LLC and eyrie press. share the aha moments and local history. that feed the soul.
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