Just after sunrise, Bob Buteux of Oak Grove, Ore., rows a dinghy toward the Port Townsend shoreline from the sailboat he lives aboard.

Port Townsend's new Police Chief Kristen Anderson, a former aerobics instructor, teaches a kickboxing class at a fitness club.

Wisteria Wildwood, owner of Wild Coho restaurant, jokes with waiter David Fischer, while she cooks for the Port Townsend lunch crowd.

Inside the Ann Starrett Mansion bed and breakfast, a tourist from Victoria, B.C., looks down from the three-tiered spiral starecase that rises up a 70-foot tower. The historic home dates back to 1889.

Tour guide Leslie Stevenson of the of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxilliary, his image inverted by the lighthouse lens, tells visitor Jeanne Fost of Port Orchard about the history of the Point Wilson Lighthouse. The unmanned structure was established in 1879, and its 1000-watt bulb can bee seen up to 16 miles away because of the fresnel lens.

Mary Daubenberger, 96, keeps her hand close while playing bridge at the Port Townsend Senior Center. She was born and reared in Port Townsend.

At the port's Boat Haven, Mark Ahlstrom paints the bottom of the "Courageous," a 48-foot sloop built in 1947 that is being readied for the Wooden Boat Festival.

Ned Schumann, owner of OlympusNet Internet service, stands in the Port Townsend company's network center.

A bin of pink shrimp is unloaded from the F/V Susie Q at New Day Fisheries in Port Townsend.

At Port Townsend Paper, machine tender Jerry Charvat checks to make sure the paper is drying evenly as it travels across mesh wire 20 feet wide.

At Port Townsend Paper, Kevin Garrison operates a crane to move a 25-foot-ide reel of brown paper weighing about 25 tons. Garrison is moving the reel to a winder, a machine that cuts the reel into widths for customers.

Robert Gray moves a 9-ton reel of pulp paper bound for the Far East.

Port Townsend Paper is the town's largest employer with about 500 workers, according to mill manager David H. Hartley. The plant uses wood chips, recycled corrugated cardboard and sawdust pulp to make paper and averages 40 percent recycled materials in its products, according to mill manager David N. Hartley.

Kim Preston's two dogs seem ready for a drive while they wait in their owner's 1964 Volvo outside Aldrich's Store. That's Hilda on left and Lucy in the driver's seat.

Bicyclists peddle down Water Street, the main street in downtown Port Townsend, early in the morning.

Local residents (from front) Saba Presley, 17, Sam Force, 17, and Zoe Miquela, 18, massage each other in the "uptown" part of Port Townsend.

Three-year-old Alex Kures of Bellevue reaches out to touch a sea urchin in an aquarium at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center. With him are his mother, Maureen, and his 1-year-old brother, Adam.

Rovida Mott of Sacremento walks near the Point Wilson Lighthouse.

John Hawkins, who moved to Port Townsend in 1952, descends the stairs of the Jefferson County Courthouse.

Bob Buteux of Oak Grove, Ore., passes the Washington State Ferry Quinalt as he rows to shore from his sailboat.

A Navy ship passes by Port Townsend on a sunny morning.

David G. Timmons, Port Townsend's first city manager, at work in City Hall.

Cousins Vernis Taylor and Frank Philpott catch up after running into each other at the Port Townsend Post Office.

Sculptor/designer David Lesser sits astride his life-size welded steel sculpture titled "Bull" in a Port Townsend pasture near his home.