Drawing from oral history interviews with Billy and those best acquainted with him, Legacy Project Director Trova Heffernan traces Billy’s development from angry young man on the banks of the Nisqually to passionate elder statesman and chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. The book is filled with photographs and contains an extensive family tree.
Washington Democrats and Libertarians are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear yet another challenge of the state’s popular Top 2 Primary. Various appeals have been underway since voters approved the system by a landslide eight years ago. The open primary, which allows all voters to select their favorite candidates for each office, without regard to party label, has been successfully used since 2008, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 to allow it. The high court did leave open…
This recent memoir reads like having an interesting friend sit down to relate how he made the intriguingly insane choice to change from being a city guy on Capitol Hill who ran a successful restaurant to establishing and running Kurtwood Farms on Vashon Island—with no previous experience whatsoever as a farmer.
In times like these, folks need all the friends they can get. That goes double for librarians who work in the state’s correctional and psychiatric institutions. Since the 1960s when the U.S. government provided start-up funding to establish libraries in state institutions (ILS) , support for these critically needed libraries has plummeted. As of October 2011, funding for the state’s ILS collections was terminated. This crisis is not new to Gayle Shonkwiler, library associate at the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center. …
Mystery writer J.A. Jance’s 14th Seattle-based J.P. Beaumont police procedural weaves a plot with lots of complications and disparate story lines throughout various seedy locations of the greater Seattle area.
John C. Hughes and former U.S. Senator Slade Gorton sign copies of the book that Hughes recently wrote about the longtime statesman. Former state Attorney General and U.S. Senator Slade Gorton was the featured guest at a forum and book signing Thursday in the Legislative Building’s State Reception Room. More than 50 attendees heard Gorton speak about his enduring and prominent career in state and national politics. Gorton is the subject of a recent biography entitled “Slade Gorton A Half-Century…
Washington State Special Collections has Civil War veterans’ correspondence concerning attendance of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg reunion, held in 1913.
River Marked is Patricia Briggs’ 6th Mercy Thompson novel. Fans of this “kick ass supernatural heroine” will be very pleased with this latest entry to her story.
36 Northwest Authors write a chapter each in a week-long onstage writing event in front of a live audience. The result is a story of a band of misfits and the trouble that they face after uncovering a plot to sell the hotel that they live in.
Jane Berentson’s debut is a warm, funny and bittersweet slice of women’s fiction with engaging characters, about a Tacoma schoolteacher.