Roger Lippman
- Mar 26, 2023
Life and Times in Leschi: Powell Barnett, Part 3
Powell Barnett’s father brought the family in 1889 from Indiana to the coal town of Roslyn, Washington. The elder Barnett had been...
Leschi Council
- Mar 26, 2023
Star Awards: Is there a Star near you?
The Leschi Community Council Board is now accepting applications for our annual Leschi Stars. Applications must be submitted by May 5 to...
Roger Lippman
- Feb 20, 2023
Life and Times in Leschi: Powell Barnett, Part 2
In his 1968 interview with Larry Gossett (excerpted here last month), Powell Barnett refers to the fact that housing discrimination was...
Leschi Council
- Feb 20, 2023
March event postponed
TO BE RESCHEDULED (originally March 1st, 7pm) Grace Methodist Church (downstairs meeting room) 722 30th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144 We are...
Roger Lippman
- Jan 21, 2023
Powell Barnett
I recently discovered that the paper archives of the Leschi Community Council (originally known as the Leschi Improvement Council, LIC)...
John Barber
- Jan 21, 2023
Remembering a Community Leader
In January, we published a tribute to Thurston Muskelly as he had returned home from the Parkshore retirement community. We were to learn...
Karen Daubert
- Dec 23, 2022
Leschi's Leader: Thurston D. Muskelly
I can’t recall the first time I met Thurston–or even the issue or organization that we had in common at the time–but I do recall the...