Elleda Wilson

The Morning Oregonian of Jan. 6, 1913, had an eye-popping headline, “Bark’s Crew Cheer in Face of Death.” The headline also noted, in a classic understatement, “experience is harrowing.”

The wild west was alive and well in Astoria with The Daily Morning Astorian, Jan. 9, 1888 headline: “Shot on the street.”

In an unusual occurrence, even for the Graveyard of the Pacific, not one, but two barkentines wrecked at about the same time, according to the March 1, 1853 edition of

A tidbit for the many North Coast surfers and surfing fans: SFGATE reported that Santa Cruz, California resident Alessandro “Alo” Slebir had possibly broken the Guinness World Record by surfing

The scrawny but beloved tree growing out of one of the rocks in the landmark Three Graces sea stack formation on Tillamook Bay, a bit north of Garibaldi, has blown

Cartographic rerun: A map, drawn by Native American Arikara tribal leader and guide Too Né for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, was recently discovered in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France,

From the Jan. 20, 1885 edition of The Daily Morning Astorian, here are the details of the unfortunate demise of the 154-ton British bark Dewa Gungadhur, under the command of

North Coast American history buffs might want to watch this Christie’s auction, which is set to take place Jan. 24 in New York City. The item of interest going on

Scientists were stunned when they discovered that a shipwreck shadow they thought they had spotted under their boat last November was actually a mega-coral. The Pavona clavus, now the world’s

“Tiny crop circles made by sand dollars on the beach,” the Seaside Aquarium posted on their Facebook page, describing the photo shown.