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In Uptown, a Catholic church houses a recast bell from the Stuckstede Bell Foundry Co., connecting Seattle and St. Louis history.
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The refrain about the dullness of United States History is common enough. A large country spanning several centuries, US history feels distant to students both temporally and spatially. And across that distance, the importance of US history often dissipates before it reaches students. The remnants of those histories, by the time they arrive in the…
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As I took an evening stroll from my apartment in Uptown through Belltown, I looked in on restaurants, bars, and storefronts. As if I shared a modernized point of view with Edward Hopper’s 1942 Nighthawks. Belltown is a cool neighborhood. Filled with bars, restaurants, businesses, it’s also one on the most populated neighborhoods in the…
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ESPN announced today that they will be partnering with FOX and Warner Bros. Discovery to launch a massive sports streaming platform this fall. As more and more sports programming moves to streaming platforms, it appears that there is an effort here to lead the market. Pac-2 fans have taken this news to mean that the…
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I was sitting in one of the dimly lit brutalist halls – which one it was has faded from my memory – on the University of Washington campus in the Summer of 2015. The grad student teaching Geography of Cities (GEOG 277) had assigned homework for us to bring forward a song that explored urban…
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Following the 1904 World’s Fair, Skinker DeBaliviere turned from farmland to a dense urban neighborhood. For more on the broader neighborhood history, consider reading Celebrating Skinker DeBaliviere – it is as fine a neighborhood history as I’ve ever read. By 1912 in the southeastern corner of the neighborhood, an R.O. Brown Real Estate Company applied…
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The husky has represented the University of Washington for over 100 years now. But Sunny, a young All-American boy with a positive demeanor and a bumbershoot at his feet, preceded the husky as an official mascot. He was a sun dodger, eluding that bright orb in the sky as he nestled into the green and…
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Tony Chiado 