Daily Find
Can there really be an entire book on the skirt? The answer is yes – and it's a fun read to boot. "The Long (and Short) of It: The Madcap History of the Skirt" (HarperCollins, 2007; $14.95) by Seattleite Ali Basye, is a clever little tome that traces the history of the skirt from the loin cloth to bustled skirts, skorts, and pencil styles to the low-rise mini. (Hmm, the last is suspiciously like the first.)
By Kathy Schultz | February 27, 2007
Short Trips
SNOQUALMIE -- A real engineer in overalls and a real engineer's cap ...
A conductor with a watch in his pocket ...
A brakeman who waves ...
And a whistle that goes TOOOOT-toot-toot ...
Vern Scott pulled slowly on the lever that engaged a thingamajig that, in turn, urged his diesel-powered locomotive to get going, and it did.
Once again the Snoqualmie Valley Railroad would be on schedule, this time to host a Northwest Railway Museum outing for kids.
By Gordy Holt | May 18, 2006
Museum location: 5400 N. Pearl St., No. 11 (Point Defiance Park), Tacoma.
By Cathy McDonald | November 24, 2005
Museum location: 1911 Pacific Ave., Tacoma.
By Cathy McDonald | October 20, 2005
The budget outing: Discover Puget Sound's roots from the days when there were many firs and no freeways. Visit Suquamish, where the tribal chief for whom Seattle was named lived communally in what amounted to a mansion of the early 1800s: a beachfront longhouse reputedly more than 500 feet long.
Today, Chief Sealth is buried in a small cemetery just up the hill, with a glimpse through tall, guardian evergreens of the swirling waters of narrow Agate Passage.
By Brian J. Cantwell | August 25, 2005
Location: Mercer Island.
Length: Almost three miles.
Level of difficulty: Flat to moderately sloping paved walkways and grass, dirt and gravel paths (muddy after rains).
By Cathy McDonald | February 10, 2005
MEGLER, Pacific County — Rex Ziak is driving west on Highway 401, within sight of the Astoria Bridge, when he stops his pickup truck by a thicket of alders on the Washington side of the Columbia River.
He peers into a dark tangle of trees and boulders, a gloomy, sunless scene, like something from an old black-and-white film.
By Stanton H. Patty | February 3, 2005
Location: Auburn.
Length: About a half mile.
Level of difficulty: Flat-to-gentle grass and dirt trails.
Setting: Set on land purchased by King County in 1966, this pleasant multi-use park offers large grassy meadows and a trail along the northeast shore of Five Mile Lake. In the southeastern part of the park, trails lead up to a forested knoll with a fort-like structure that overlooks the lake and its fringing marshes.
By Cathy McDonald | January 20, 2005
Short Trips
You could see the abject terror in the young seaman's eyes as he clung to the side of an anti-aircraft battery on an aircraft carrier under kamikaze attack somewhere off Okinawa in 1945. He looked so helpless against the mayhem and destruction coming from the sky.
The scene was a fleeting moment in a black-and-white film shot during the horrifying attack -- one of hundreds of Japanese suicide sorties mounted against the U.S. fleet late in the Pacific war. But the footage of that particular moment in that young man's life told volumes about the horror of war.
By Jeff Larsen | January 13, 2005
Take a Walk
Location: San Juan Island.
Trail length: Three miles.
Level of difficulty: Flat-to-gentle grassy lawn and level-to-moderate dirt/gravel trails.
By Cathy McDonald | October 21, 2004
