Seattle retirees: 'Don't touch our Social Security'
Readers share their views on Social Security, and it's a different world from when President Franklin Roosevelt appointed a director to Seattle's first SSA office.
Jean Sherrard
This short-lived attraction was part of Seattle’s early waterfront days
Some might call it a one-hit wonder, but for a few months in 1870, the Alida, a side-wheeler steamer, reigned on Puget Sound.
‘It feels just like burning books’: What the possible Trump shuttering of Seattle site means to visitors
At Seattle’s Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, inside Pioneer Square’s restored Cadillac Hotel, visitors react to the possibility of the museum closing.
Chuckanut Drive — ‘an incomparable panorama’ on the water since 1916
Hugging the steep sides of Chuckanut Mountain south of Bellingham, Chuckanut Drive has offered breathtaking vistas across Samish Bay since it opened in 1916.
113-year-old Roosevelt district jewel houses tiny shops ‘of hope’
Ravenna Rocks, selling crystals and gemstones, is in the Silhouette Antiques space, while upstairs, Ravenna Refills offers organic shampoos, soaps and lotions.
At this 1938 Seattle cathedral’s blue domes, ‘heaven and earth meet’
For more than 80 years, the domes of St. Spiridon Orthodox Cathedral have been beacons as Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood has grown around them.
The Seattle Ski Park of 1934 (at Snoqualmie Pass) was ‘close to heaven’
Amid the Depression, Seattle Mayor John F. Dore led efforts to open the first municipally owned ski facility in the country, at Snoqualmie Pass, in...
This find during Sea-Tac construction on Valentine’s Day 1961 got hearts pounding
The fossil discovered at Sea-Tac Airport is at the Burke Museum, and named for the man who first came across it. Nearly 60% of the...
A piece of Seattle history disappears with the demolition of Loch Kelden VIEW
A piece of Seattle history disappears with the demolition of Loch Kelden, a mansion overlooking Lake Washington that had been completed in 1907 by Rolland...
Seattle’s new Overlook Walk works its magic as a ‘people’s viaduct’
On a December visit to Seattle's new Overlook Walk, carrying a copy of a 2019 photo of the viaduct, Jean Sherrard polled locals and tourists...