West Seattle - Features

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

From the beginning of time various creatures roamed the earth. Some grew to enormous proportions during the period of the dinosaurs. Then, because of circumstances beyond their control, they were wiped out.…MORE

By Tim Clifford

On Sep.21 the MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) space craft successfully inserted itself into Mars’s orbit to begin collecting data. During the NASA Social event the 25 participants from around the U.S.…MORE

by Scott Anthony

At Fred Meyer, we passed the freezer case and some organic sour cream caught my eye.

“Honey,” I said conspiratorily, “how about we break the Sunday night spaghetti dinner tradition and have Turkos?” She gives the ok…MORE

Residents, families and staff of The Kenney Reitrement Center in West Seattle walked to support Alzheimer's research. In the process they raised more than $1600 and walked the full two mile long route along Lake Union on Sept. 20.

Four…MORE

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