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Seattle Author Reveals What She Learned About President Trump in New YA Book
In ‘Unpresidented,’ Martha Brockenbrough documents Trump’s life, times and the current political era for young readers
This article appears in print in the December 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. Regarding Martha Brockenbrough’s latest young adult (YA) book, Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trump (ages 12–18, Feiwel and Friends, $19.95), we asked the Seattle journalist and author, “What are the two most interesting things you discovered about the president?” “Trump’s love of crowds cheering…
This Week Then: How 5 Nuns Established Health Care in the PNW
Plus: Looking back on the Seattle Sounders' first MLS Cup
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. Provident Souls On December 8, 1856, the Sisters of Providence arrived at Fort Vancouver, where they quickly established a boarding school, an orphanage, and St. Joseph’s Hospital. Their mission was to build and operate schools and hospitals throughout the Pacific Northwest. In 1878 they opened their first hospital in Seattle,…
Must List: Santa’s Lights Tour, May the Course Be with You 5K, Spectrum Dance
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST BUS Santa’s Lights Tour(12/8) MEHVA, the Metro Employees Historic Vehicle Association, hosts a handful of excursions each year using its fleet of historic trolleys and motorbuses. Only one trip, however, includes Santa Claus, who joins riders for a 3-hour tour of the city’s…
6 Local Subscriptions for Holiday Gifting
Finding the perfect gift is as easy as clicking “subscribe”
The holidays can be a busy time of year, leaving little time for the obligatory gift shopping between holiday parties, festive concerts and family get-togethers. To give you a leg up, and save on wrapping paper, we have rounded up the most coveted local subscription services, which require near-zero effort on your part and will…
Will Congestion Pricing Help Seattle’s Traffic Mess?
The ‘period of maximum constraint’ is just around the corner, and even when it’s over, traffic downtown is likely to be worse than it is today. Can we toll our way out of this mess?
STOPPED UP: Today, traffic barely moves through downtown on Fifth Avenue during rush hour. Could congestion pricing help?
Seattle Rep’s ‘In the Heights’ Is an Emotional Carnaval
Its production of one of Lin-Manuel Miranda's early works brings an audience together like few shows do
Lin-Manuel Miranda, with book writer Quiara Alegria Hudes, put a lot into his first show, 2008’s In the Heights—which in retrospect is kind of amusing, as if he thought, as novices in any art form tend to do, that he might not get to do a second one. (No one reading this needs to be told he followed…
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