Pam (aka Gates) Johnson

What Brought You To the Island
Arrival Stories, September 2023

What Brought You To the Island

By Pam (aka Gates) Johnson I’d always dreamed of living on a farm, but resigned myself to a life in Portland, just like everyone else in my family. That all changed when I got married. I was 21 years and two weeks old, and had been married for one weekend when we packed up everything…