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What We Want to Know: All About Birds
All About Birds is one of the best websites for help with bird identification and for answers to things we want to know about birds. In a recent article on All About Birds about color differences between male and female … Continue reading
Seattle’s Regrading Mania
From the time that settlers first arrived in Seattle in 1851, they began redesigning the landscape. There just seemed to be something about wanting to reconfigure the topography to suit civic purposes, which drove a near-mania for regrading. It has … Continue reading
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A Walk Through Wedgwood History
Take a Walk Through Wedgwood History with me, Valarie, on any/all Saturdays in September 2015. We will meet under the Safeway sign, 35th Ave NE at the corner of NE 75th Street at 10 AM. We will look at the … Continue reading
Names in the Neighborhood: LaVilla
In March 1945 during the final battles of World War Two in Europe, a homesick soldier wrote a letter to the Seattle Daily Times newspaper. Lieutenant Ralph A. Penington, age 34, was with the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division in Italy. … Continue reading
Where Nature Lives
This hummingbird photo along with more than a dozen other framed bird photos is part of an exhibit at Fuel Coffee in Montlake during the month of August 2015. The exhibit is entitled, “Where Nature Lives” by photographer and artist … Continue reading
The Future of 35th Ave NE in Wedgwood
What is the future of 35th Ave NE? This arterial corridor through the Wedgewood neighborhood of Seattle has businesses clustered mainly at the intersections of NE 75th and 85th Streets. As buildings at these intersections age and are replaced, we … Continue reading
Go Klondike Legacy Day
The Seattle unit of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park preserves the story of the 1897 stampede to the Yukon gold fields and Seattle’s crucial role in this event. On Friday, July 17, 2015, you can join in with … Continue reading
The Theodora in Northeast Seattle
The (former) Theodora building is in northeast Seattle at 6559 35th Ave NE, at the southwest corner of NE 68th Street. In 2016 the building went through a transition and remodeling to new use. The Theodora became a regular apartment … Continue reading
The Landscape in Our Pacific Northwest History
The history of the exploration of our Pacific Northwest region is built upon its landscape, including rivers, mountains, natural resources and the use patterns of traditional cultures. Two recently-released books tell stories of local history, fur traders, explorers, geology and … Continue reading
Under the Midnight Sun at the Klondike Gold Rush Museum in Seattle
The Gold Rush of 1897 was an event which rocketed Seattle out of an economic depression because the city advertised itself as the launch point to the Yukon. Forever after, the economies of the City of Seattle and the North … Continue reading
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