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Northwest history and aviation enthusiasts contend an almost forgotten aerial feat that started and finished in Seattle also belongs up there in the pantheon of early aviation milestones.
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Seattle was picked as a setting for ‘Frasier’ somewhat randomly, and next month, a reboot will take Frasier Crane back to Boston. But from 1993 to 2004, the award-winning sitcom helped define Seattle to the nation — even if it got a lot wrong.
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Author Tom Fucoloro discusses “Biking Uphill in the Rain: The story of Seattle from Behind Handlebars” which spans the history of cycling in Seattle from present day all the way back to the late 1800s.
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Three community leaders teased out what makes Pike Place Market so iconic, our need to mourn places that we've lost and the importance of imagining spaces where we belong.
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When a band of activists rose up to save Pike Place Market from demolition more than 50 years ago, they weren't fighting for a quaint piece of historic architecture, but an unruly aspect of Seattle’s personality.
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Whether you're playing tour guide or exploring your own city, here are eight things you may not know about Pike Place Market.
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March 15: Country blues legend Sam Lightnin' Hopkins is born and Seattle gets its first Shakespeare production
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March 9 is the day America's namesake Amerigo Vespucci and free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman were born. It's also the day Bertha Knight Landes was elected mayor of Seattle, becoming the first female mayor of a major U.S. city.
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In 1963, a quarter-million people gathered in Washington, D.C., to hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. But the summer of 1963 marked a critical point in Seattle history as well, as young activists staged the city’s first sit-ins of the civil rights movement.
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Tomorrow is a big day for Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry. The museum is hosting a grand opening at its new location near South Lake Union in the…