West Seattle - Features

by Georgie Bright Kunkel

In the summer of 1938 I applied to teach in the little town of Vader Washington. I ended up teaching a combination first and second grade classroom. What a traumatic time for me setting up housekeeping for the…MORE

by Rob Clay and Sharon Burkhart*

From Ohio in 1902, Jacob Ambaum arrived with his wife Mary, found work helping clear land for part of the Cedar River rail line near Renton that same year. He also helped clear the land along SW Roxbury St…MORE

By Pat Cashman

What’s a kid in diapers to think? From the time we arrive and our first toys are offered to us, very likely at least one of them will be some form of a bear. And they are always huggable and cute.

There are, of course…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

The world has always been thus, as they say. Yin and Yang, good and bad, you name it. We are constantly torn between two opposing forces in life. Religion rose to temper the forces of evil. At the same time that…MORE

by Pat Cashman

Walking home from school one day, I saw the sign posted prominently on the door of a saloon called “The Palace.” It read: NO MINORS ALLOWED!

I remember feeling a sense of outrage. Why, I wondered, would hard-…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel Most everyone learns about the seasons and that they only occur in temperate climates. Remember Pete Seeger singing “Turn, turn, turn, turn. There is a season for everything under heaven.” I always wondered what it would…MORE

by Kathryn Kingen

Reel down then pull up with all your might, reel down again and pull up until your arms fall off! That is what it was like landing my first tuna. I was with my family bobbing off the tip of the Baja in white-capped seas,…MORE

by Chef Jeremy Mclachlan

Tuna used to be la crème de la crème in the U.S. for decades as a meaty and flavor-packed fish. It was the No. 1 seafood consumed here in America, and canned tuna was an amazing vehicle for protein…MORE

By Scott Anthony

By Pat Cashman

I just mailed out the last of my Labor Day cards yesterday. If Hallmark sells Labor Day cards, I’ve never seen them---so this was a job I had to myself. It was hard work, but isn’t that point of a Labor Day card? A…MORE