I was looking for a particular piece of history that I couldn’t easily find online, so I quickly checked out every book at the Olympia Timberland Library that had any relevance at all to railroads in Thurston County. Two of them — South Puget Sound Railroad Mania (a goofy name for a great book) and…
Month: January 2011
The Old Road that was Tumwater
Following up on my other post about Tumwater, one I’ve been meaning to do for awhile now. When people talk about the old Tumwater that was killed by I5, they mean the one that was centered along the Deschutes waterway (the same termonlolgy we use to talk about the Duwamish Waterway) and this road: View…
If we call the basketball rivalry, the Capital Cup, what should we call a local soccer competition?
Since Brandon Rosage is now doing a sports podcast locally, made me think about how I’ve been meaning to write more about local sports. There is at least an exhibition competition between Evergreen State and Saint Martins, but there is no similar series between the local Olympia-area soccer teams. So, for the time being, I’m…