Author Notes

A bird’s eye view from the northeast of Port Townsend in 1876:

It’s a little difficult to discern the bluff that separates uptown from downtown, but if you start at the lower left of the image, you can see the edge of it behind the trees. It goes along behind the houses that are on Franklin Street and continues behind the block of houses on Jefferson Street, between Taylor Street and Tyler Street. Everything from that line forward, away from the waterfront, is uptown. All the buildings on Washington and Water Streets are downtown.

This drawing was done about a dozen years before the events of this novel take place and there was a significant building boom that began in the late 1880s, but many of the streets in this image still exists in Port Townsend today.

The B&B that I stay at when I visit Port Townsend is on a street not yet named in the image, parallel to Adams Street, between Franklin and Clay.