Remembering Barnett Moss, a Capitol fixture who charmed many with his silence The Olympian 12 hrs ago Brandon Block, The Olympian (Olympia, Wash.) Jul. 11—By all accounts, Barnett Moss was a man of few words. No one knew where he came from. But Moss, a lanky man with a broad smile and scraggly gray hair who spent most of his time reading books and newspapers, acquired a certain celebrity around the Washington state Capitol. "It was always 'yes please', or 'no, thank you,'" said Tammy Stampfli, a pastor at the United Churches of Olympia, where Moss slept on the porch for more than five years.