Boy Scout Troop 100 spent Saturday morning at Seattle’s Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery cleaning the moss and dirt off of old headstones and planting flags in preparation for a Memorial Day ceremony. It is altogether fitting and proper that the Scouts should do …
Author: Greg Lamm
Finding Depression-era history on an old sidewalk
The sidewalks had historic marks because they were built by workers who got jobs with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression.
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Here are the signs that a Seattle neighborhood rocked by a natural gas explosion will bounce back
The murals are a reminder that lots of talented artists are living – often obscurely – in our midst. The artwork also is a reminder that we can prevail in the face of tragedy when we fall back on our inherent optimism and spirit of …
Seven things you may not know about the life and music of country legend Merle Haggard
With songs like “Tulare Dust” and “They’re Tearing the Labor Camps Down” Haggard – like Guthrie – captured in simple lyric and melody the same sentiments reflected in the prose of John Steinbeck about the struggles of migrant workers.
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The kindness of the Kaua’i koi pond gardener
My son befriended the gardener who tends the koi ponds where we stayed near Poipu Beach on Kaua'i during our holiday visit. The gardener lopped off the top of a water jug and made him an aquarium stocked with guppies and aquatic plants.
