Ballard - Features

Photos courtesy of Patrick Robinson and Shane Harms.

Out past the sand there was a man walking a rope between two trees. He leaped and discovered there ground is never that far from reach.

Tree stand.

Pole stands…MORE

By Pat Cashman

I was stocking the shelves at “Three Boys Market” in my hometown of Bend, Oregon---a city whose population at the time practically could have fit onto the Cathlamet and Issaquah ferries (although there wouldn’t have been…MORE

Photo by Patrick Robinson.

By Peggy Sturdivant “I wish I wasn’t going away too,” Mark Vrieling, owner of Rain City Video said, hearing yet another customer lament the closing of the 32nd NW location. The Vrielings started Rain City Video 29 years ago and have outlasted…MORE

By Lori Ann Reinhall

On September 11, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower convened his White House Conference on citizen diplomacy with the dream of forging relationships in which “people of different cultures could celebrate and…MORE

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

I love citrus. I have six lemon trees in my living room that I baby all winter long. I love the smell of the blossoms when I move the trees inside. And I look forward to hummingbirds pollinating the second crop of…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

The village is coming to Ballard. Or should I say being reintroduced to an area that has become more urban than village? After successfully establishing a multigenerational community surrounding Phinney Ridge the PNA…MORE

By Lindsay Peyton

On most Saturdays, 17-year old Katherine Fry boards a bus near her home in West Seattle and makes a two-hour commute to the Woodland Park Zoo.

The senior at Chief Sealth International High School has volunteered…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

It was the day after the power outage. Leaving the yoga studio at Ballard Health Club my path crossed with that of Alison Krupnick near the elliptical machines. Because we stopped in our sweaty tracks, for no longer…MORE

By Ken Kagan

If, like me, you are of a certain age – and by that I mean, for example, that you remember where you were when you heard the news that President Kennedy had been shot, then your early association with Italian wine was almost…MORE