Roger Lippman
Sep 24
Life and Times in Leschi
Frink Park 9: William Cumming, Part 2 I became interested in the artist William Cumming last year, when I attended a “town hall” put on...
Roger Lippman
Aug 27
Life and Times in Leschi
Frink Park 8: William Cumming, Part 1 “Sometime in an autumn in the late fifties … I was living in a disintegrating house on Thirtieth...
Roger Lippman
May 26
Life and Times in Leschi
Frink Park 7: Carlos Bulosan, Part 2 Carlos Bulosan’s union work and his writing ability led him from California back to Seattle, where,...
Roger Lippman
Apr 22
Life and Times in Leschi
Frink Park: Carlos Bulosan, Part 1 Overlooking hills and valleys, where trees dance and birds sing under the splendor of the sun in...
Roger Lippman
Mar 25
Life and Times in Leschi: John M. Frink
Our neighborhood’s Frink Park is named for Leschi residents John and Abbie Frink, who donated the land to the city of Seattle in 1906....
Roger Lippman
Feb 27
Life and Times in Leschi: Frink Park, Part 4
For over 25 years, Darrell Howe and Darcy Thompson have been restoring and maintaining Frink and Upper Leschi Parks. Together they have...
Roger Lippman
Jan 28
Life and Times in Leschi: Frink Park, Part 3
A couple of bits of Frink Park history that did not survive the ages were two clay tennis courts. One was on South King Street, just...
Roger Lippman
Dec 28, 2023
Life and Times in Leschi: Frink Park, Part 2
Frink Park was created as, and remains, a natural, wooded park in the urban surrounding. It retains the Olmsted vision of a forest...
Roger Lippman
Nov 26, 2023
Life and Times in Leschi: Frink Park, Part 1
Established in 1906, Frink Park, Leschi’s vast, rambling woods, lies in the neighborhood’s geographical heart. Yet even those who are...
Roger Lippman
Oct 23, 2023
Life and Times in Leschi: The Leschi Ferry Dawn, Part 2
When we left off last month, the redoubtable Lake Washington ferry Dawn had mostly sunk at the Leschi dock in a ferocious 1923 storm....
Maisha Barnett
Oct 23, 2023
South King County African-American NW Pioneers Recognized with Special Bus Shelter Photo Mural
The legacy of John Newington Conna extends from Texas to Alaska, with a lasting impact in what is now the state of Washington, known then...
Anne Depue
Sep 25, 2023
Odessa Brown Clinic
Seattle Children’s has announced plans to build a new Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic in the Central District at the southwest corner of...