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Seattle native Benjamin Lukoff is a freelance writer and editor. He's been interested in local history since the age of six, when his father bought him 'Pig-Tail Days in Old Seattle' at the MOHAI gift shop.

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Chuck Taylor on the 30th anniversary of the Sonics' championship and its coverage in the P-I

The Seattle SuperSonics won the NBA championship 30 years ago on June 1, 1979. Thirty thousand of their fans welcomed them home on June 2, and the...
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P-I globe tops Washington Trust for Historic Preservation's Most Endangered Historic Properties list

The Washington Trust for Historic Preservation released its 2009 list of Most Endangered Historic Properties today. Topping the list is the P-I Globe,...
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Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition centennial kicks off at Northwest Folklife, May 22

The centennial of Seattle's 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition kicks off Friday, May 22, at the Northwest Folklife Festival at Seattle Center.As...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer archives tossed? and other bad news in the world of local history

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My latest piece at Crosscut.com is on how, according to a story in the last print edition of the Seattle P-I, "documents and sacred records that...
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50-year-old recording of Ivar Haglund and other Seattle folk musicians surfaces

I hear from the Pacific Northwest Folklore Society that a half hour of audio from the January 20, 1959, broadcast on KCTS 9 of Ballads & Books is...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper, city's oldest business, to cease publication after March 17

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It's all over for the print edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle's oldest newspaper and oldest business. The March 17 edition will be...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper, city's oldest business, to go online-only after March 18?

Two items of note regarding the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Chuck Taylor's Seattle Post-Times blog today: Staff for a potential online-only...
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Historical photos replaced by advertising on Washington State Ferries

Chuck Taylor notes on Seattle Post-Times that the historical photos of their respective namesakes that used to hang on the walls of Washington State...
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Seattle's oldest used bookstore, Horizon Books, to close March 15

As also reported by the Seattle Literature Examiner, we're about to lose our oldest used bookstore, Capitol Hill's Horizon Books. Founded in July 1971...
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Paul Dorpat launches Seattle Now & Then archive at PaulDorpat.com

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Paul Dorpat announced yesterday that he would begin to archive the Seattle Now & Then column he's been writing since 1982 for Pacific Northwest...
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