Colin Herforth News Today

Since Astoria is a fishing town — among other things bright and beautiful, of course — its only fitting that there should be a maritime version available of Clement Clarke Moores classic Christmas Eve poem, "The Night Before Christmas." And indeed, there is one: " The Bight Before Christmas," by Alaska fisherman and journalist, Will Swagel. A bight, if you didn’t know, can be a loop of rope, or a curve in the coastline, among other things. Swagels version has Santa not in a slei...