Ostrander: Our Activist Roots

Madeline Ostrander reviews 100 years of Seattle activism, from the Wobblies to the 1999 World Trade Organization protests to anti-offshore drilling kayaktivists. Madeline and coauthor Valerie Schloredt wrote a feature series for Seattle Met and gave the highlights on...

Walking the Denny Regrade with David B. Williams

Within 50 years of the Denny party’s arrival in Seattle, the city undertook several massive projects which permanently changed the topography of the city. Between 1898 and 1930, Seattle completed perhaps the most audacious engineering change by eliminating Denny Hill...