Best New Year's Wishes from Port Orford, Oregon, the most westerly incorporated city in the contiguous United States!

2002 was a year of excellent weather - an extended summer that lasted into November.  Now the winter storms are buffeting the coast to make up for that - with officially registered wind gusts of 91 mph at Cape Blanco, eight miles north of Port Orford.

This year we joined the Oregon Chautauqua program, a lecture program sponsored by the Oregon Council for the Humanities, and now give presentations throughout Oregon.  Emily's program is ("Demystifying Intelligence") and Rick's is about the "Japanese Submarine Attacks on the Oregon Coast during WWII." 

With Iraq once again in the headlines, Rick's book (www.francona.com) is again in demand and the Naval Institute Press is issuing a fourth printing.  He also contributed in the filming of a documentary on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction for The History Channel, to air in mid-January.  Emily taught an undergraguate summer course at Portland State University and has joined the Naval Postgraduate School as a contract researcher.