Portland is a train town. From its history as a 19th Century railroad outpost up to the present with its light rail and streetcars, steel wheels on tracks seem to have forever resonated in the The City of Roses. One place where old meets new …
Category: History
Honoring Civil War soldiers and sailors at the Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery in Seattle
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 …
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.
Read More "Finding Depression-era history on an old sidewalk"
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.
Read More "Seven things you may not know about the life and music of country legend Merle Haggard"
Should Seattle reopen old Aurora Ave. pedestrian tunnel where ‘mashers and thugs’ once lurked?
The political action group Let’s Move Seattle wants voters to approve spending nearly $1 billion in taxes to pay for a long list of transportation projects. The money would expand metro bus service, pave pockmarked streets and reinforce the city’s creaky, traffic-laden drawbridges before the …
Greg Lamm 