Junius Rochester

The mundane practice of law was never enough to satisfy the bursting Irish energy of Burke, attorney to the wealthy and friend of the working poor.

Music arrived early with the Native songs, trapper songs, and the hymns brought by missionaries. Many more national stars came from the Northwest.

West Marginal Way threads it way to and from Hugo’s home town of White Center.  Later poems feature the streams and mountains of Montana.

In 1805-1806, Lewis and Clark, Thomas Jefferson’s intrepid travelers, first charted the Gorge’s path and wonders.  Later, trappers, voyageurs, and missionaries followed and mapped and described new details of this unique highway.

Washington was placed by the wine gods between 30 degrees and 50 degrees latitude north and south of the equator – the historic region for grape growing in Europe. 

When Seattle attorney and scholar Alfred J. Schweppe, age 93, died in April of 1988, his name was high in the legal firmament, and beyond.  He had seemingly touched the lives of most Washington state residents.

Dogwood Press gems, now collectors' items, represent a gentle man's life in a skilled trade now largely taken for granted.

Nard Jones once wrote: "It's a hick show that has nothing to do with Seattle's traditions."  With tongue in cheek, Jones recommended that Greater Seattle leaders be strapped into the cockpits of old hydroplanes: "set the throttle wide and aim at the log boom.  The crowd would love it."

At Seattle's Olympic Hotel, while laying out his program in free-swinging Missouri fashion, an excited member of the audience suddenly hollered: "Give 'em hell, Harry."  Truman stopped, looked at the audience and said that he didn't give anyone hell, he just told the truth and his opponents thought it was hell. 

As a job-factory, except for a few brief economic bumps, the Pacific Northwest has long provided employment opportunities, with economic saviors regularly coming to town.