Cub Scouts in Seattle had America’s very first Cub Scout camp. It was a Paul Bunyan camp, called Blue Ox camp, open from 1930 to…
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Published October 31, 2021
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Published October 7, 2021
Wolf Cubs lost at war
The Wolf Cubs pack in Port Angeles, Washington, may have inspired the formation of Cub Scouts in America — during an effort to prevent war.…
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Published October 5, 2021
Camp DYB, the Northwest’s first Cub camp
Before there were officially Cub Scouts, the Seattle area had its first Cub Camp: Camp DYB or Camp Do Your Best. (This article is the…
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Published October 2, 2021
Cub Scouts began in Port Angeles
A remote community in far western Washington State imported Cub Scouts from Canada in 1923. They apparently inspired national Scout leaders to formally adopt Cub…
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Published April 25, 2021
Frank Smith and Sadie Tipps
Frank Smith represented the opportunity for Black people in Seattle at the start of the 1900s. He and his wife Sadie built their own home,…
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Published March 23, 2021
Ed Hagen pulled one over on you
Ed Hagen got away with the greatest crime: stealing history. Casual reading of Prohibition-era newspapers has led Seattle historians to narrowly remember him as the…
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Published February 27, 2021
Seattle’s Black families’ homes in 1909
A window into Seattle’s Black families’ homes, via the writings of Horace and Susie Revels Cayton, Booker T. Washington, and Harry Edwards.
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Published February 17, 2021
Rainier Grand Hotel, Seattle, start to finish
The Rainier-Grand Hotel stood over Seattle’s waterfront for four decades and served as Seattle’s premiere tourist hotel. This is the missing chronicle of the Rainier-Grand…
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Published February 12, 2020
Utsunomiya, 1952 and 2019
Scenes of Utusnomiya, Japan from 1952 rephotographed in 2019.
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Published February 3, 2020
Soule House, now and 1899
The photos are taken in Seattle on Broadway looking northeast to James. The archival photo is from University of Washington Special Collections, number SEA3080. In…
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