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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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Would you be interested in a "Before Seattle"? How American cities looked before white settlement

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The cover of the September 2009 issue of National Geographic features a shot of Lower Manhattan. To the right of a yellow dividing line is how the...
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130-year-old Central District pear tree named "Best in City" by Seattle Heritage Tree Program

I read in the April issue of The Valley View that a 130-year-old pear tree at the corner of E. Cherry Street and 27th Avenue has been named "Best...
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Can you identify this sulfur spring in Ravenna Park? Is it the remnant of Wood Nymph's Well?

Walking through Ravenna Park the other day, I came across a stone structure I'd never noticed before, just off the service road where it crosses...
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Yes, there is a steam plant downtown. And now it's going to start burning waste wood.

The article in last week's Seattle Times headlined "Waste wood to heat downtown Seattle buildings" caught my eye not just because of the...
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Who's Waldo? The name behind the Waldo Woods tree-cutting controversy

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.floatright { float:right}.floatleft { float:left} Not that Waldo. (Flickr user Si1very) Knute Berger writes in Crosscut about the controversy raging...
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