1. I don’t get the bead thing and I don’t get decorating skulls. Though, I suppose its a thing for Halloween. That said, Shipwreck Beads must be the capital of things I don’t get. 2. Arts Walk link #1: 3. Arts Walk link #2: Thad’s Things I like at Arts Walk. 4. This is…
Month: October 2012
The Pig War and Olympia baseball
I’m working on something longer about Olympia baseball, this is a portion of that longer thing. Olympia’s baseball history probably starts just a bit earlier than than the summer of 1872. Baseball clubs had exploded between Vancouver and Portland five years before, but the following in the first refernce I can find to a baseball…
Where would have the Northern Pacific met Budd Inlet?
In most local histories that cover the era of the Pacific Northern Railway terminus chase, there is a retelling of this particular episode (this telling from Newell’s “So Fair a Dwelling Place“): The Puget Sound Land Company, a subsidiary of the Northern Pacific and bought up large tracts of land on Budd’s Inlet in the…
Secrets and vagueness (Olyblogosphere for October 1, 2012)
1. The Man With No Change at Old School: 2. Someone just had an 11 year blogiversary! 3. Alec Clayton talks about the books he’s written and focuses on their autobiographical aspects: There’s a reason these first three books were set in locales where I have lived and a reason that the main characters were all about my age….