April State Library jewels #1: Pioneer poetry
(Image courtesy of Washington State Library) With April being National Poetry Month, it’s fitting to make a poem our first State Library “jewel” contestant for the month. Entitled “The Pioneers of the Northwest,” this ode was composed by W.E. McCroskey. The State Library staff doesn’t know for sure when it was written, but one guess is sometime between 1935 and 1945. The framed print possessed by the State Library has a note that states it was presented by the Colfax…