Junius Rochester, whose family has shaped the city for many generations, is an award-winning Northwest historian and author of numerous books about Seattle and other places.
"New York" was the first settler name of "Smaquamox" for the Denny, Low, Boren, Terry, and Bell families. John Low and Lee Terry, native New Yorkers, believed that ambitious name would augur a bright future for their little encampment.
Upon Father Prefontaine's death he left a bequest of $5,000 to the city for the construction of a public fountain. Today that blue-tiled pool rests at the junction of Yesler and Third, not far from the site of the young priest's $6 a month clapboard room and chapel.
Our lives are soothed by an array of service attendants and a flock of mechanical conveniences. Foods "appear" at market stalls as if from a garden or bakery in...
The Industrial Workers of the World, known as the IWW or "Wobblies," in the early 1900s had aggressively recruited mill workers and loggers in Southwest Washington State. The Wobblies believed that a revolution was at hand.Â
After buying a home in the neighborhood during his "Rawhide" TV days, Eastwood's affection for Carmel took root. It was while he served the town as mayor that the historic Mission Ranch came on the market. It was only a step or two from there to investing in what Eastwood saw as Carmel's living history.
Some pure forms of Native language still exist. For example, the elementary school at Taholah, on the Quinault Reservation in Washington State, teaches Quileute to youngsters.