It was a wrong turn on a country road that led us to the sleepy little produce stand in Skagit County where a little bit of faith in humanity is on display with fresh apples and potatoes. The Pleasant Ridge Farm produce stand is about …
Amid dramatic progress driven by Amazon, a row of once-grand houses falls in Seattle’s South Lake Union
I stood next to a construction worker on a recent rainy October day watching the bucket of an excavator chew apart an old, three-story house on Fairview Avenue in Seattle. The old home had become expendable to make room for a new office building near …
A Boeing psychologist spent years trying to evoke the magic of flying for jaded, travel-weary jet passengers
The fact that Boeing’s 787 was named the Dreamliner was really an admission that flying on a commercial airliner had devolved into a horrible experience for many travelers. Just ask Blake Emery, a long-time Boeing psychologist who helps Boeing build planes that made people feel …
Brewer, baker, woodturner, treasure maker: All in a day’s work for Bluegrass State forester Scott Shouse
To me it was just an overgrown limb destined for the woodpile. But Scott Shouse, the forester extraordinaire, looked at the thigh-thick lilac branch we had just cut down and saw the makings of a rustic wooden treasure box.
A tribute to blues great Johnny Winter (1944-2014)
Mix the blues from Lightnin’ Hopkins and Muddy Waters, add some precision picking from Merle Travis, gargle with rock salt and whiskey, crank the amps way up, and you get Johnny Winter’s guitar playing and singing. I saw Johnny Winter play a couple of small venues …
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Greg Lamm 