Joel Goldstein and his wife Len Maranan-Goldsmith, from Port Townsend, take in the Aurora Borealis Thursday night from the beach at Point Hudson in Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Joel Goldstein and his wife Len Maranan-Goldsmith, from Port Townsend, take in the Aurora Borealis Thursday night from the beach at Point Hudson in Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Aurora admirers in Port Townsend

Joel Goldstein and his wife Len Maranan-Goldsmith, from Port Townsend, take in the Aurora Borealis Thursday night from the beach at Point Hudson in Port Townsend.

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