In 1882, Olive "Ollie" Ryther and her husband Noble Ryther, parents of four children, adopted four orphans. Ollie Ryther vowed to never turn an orphaned child away. She founded Seattle's Ryther Home a...
The Sacred Heart School of Nursing was established in Spokane by the Sisters of Providence in 1898 and operated until its final class in 1973. It was the first nurse-training school in the Inland Nort...
Saint John the Evangelist Parish was established as a Seattle parish in 1917. Its founding priest was Father William Quigley. The first Masses were held at an amusement hall at 85th Street and Greenwo...
Born in Seattle, James Y. Sakamoto became one of the leaders of the local and national Japanese American community during the critical era just before and after the start of World War II. He was a fou...
The Salmon Bank is a submerged shelf located off the southern shore of San Juan Island along the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Created by the advance and retreat of the continental ice sheet, the shelf's sh...
Washington rivers once teemed with five species of Pacific salmon -- Chinook, chum, pink, sockeye, and coho. Anadromous fish, they hatch and develop in fresh water, migrate out to sea where they live ...
Pacific salmon have long symbolized the Northwest’s natural abundance and form a cornerstone of the region's culture and economy. Environmental and economic changes since the nineteenth century ...
For centuries, salmon have been intrinsic to the culture and subsistence of the Native peoples of King County. For Lushootseed-speaking groups living along rivers and streams where salmon spawn in the...
Painter and enamelist Lisel Salzer was born August 26, 1906, into a well-to-do Jewish family and grew up in Vienna. She began drawing as a girl and studied art at the Vienna Art Academy, graduating in...
The Northwest music scene has long benefited from the creative spirit and expressive talents of innumerable LGBTQ artists. From pop singers and jazz players necessarily shielding their true natures du...
Sammamish (King County) is located on a broad plateau about 14 air miles east of Seattle. Until the 1870s, the area was largely uninhabited by humans. In 1877 Martin Monohon became the first permanent...
Prior to construction of Sammamish's first library, the King County Library System (KCLS) opened a small station in a storefront in the Sammamish Highlands Shopping Center in 1994. This temporary loca...