HERE are LINKS to a few FAVORITE ESSAYS from RECENT TIMES

• "Seattle's Early 'Jackson Street' Jazz Scene"
  
• "Tacoma's 1920s Silent Movie Studio"
  
• "KJR Radio (Seattle)"
• "Bob Hale (1918-1983): Seattle's Cartooning Weatherman"
  
• "Seattle's Belltown Neighborhood: A 'Walking Tour' Phone App"
• "Seattle's East Madison Street - A History"
• "Theo Karle (1893-1972): The Northwest's First Music Star"
• "W.O.Welch: Northwest Guitar-Maker of the 1890s"
• "KEXP (90.3 FM)" Seattle's 'Listener-Powered' Radio"
• "Robert Patten (1832-1913) Seattle's Iconic 'Umbrella-Hat Man'"
• "Belltown Sounds: The Music History of a Seattle Neighborhood"
• "Pizza in Seattle: A Slice of History"
• "Seattle's old 'Film Row' (1910-1980) in Belltown"
• "Chateau Ste. Michelle: Washington's Greatest Winery""
• "Sol Hoopii (1902-1953): The Seattle Years of the 'King of Hawaiian Guitar'"
• "Phil Moore (1918-1987): Seattle's Teenage Jazz Piano Prodigy"
• "Harry Stuff & the 1914 Seattle Origins of 'Alfred E. Neuman'"
• "Merceedees (1913-2000): Seattle's 1950s Bluesy Piano Legend"
• "Dorothy Eustis (1916-2001): Seattle's Mysterious Piano Virtuoso"
• "Invented in Seattle! Noteworthy Inventions That Were Birthed Here"
• "'Chief' Arquette (1884-1943): The Puyallup Tribe's Star Musician"
• "Seattle's Mervin Barackman (1894-1977) & His Wrestling Bears"
• "David Bowie & Iggy Pop Rocked Seattle in 1977" 
• "Columbia Phonograph Co. Records Local Musicians in Spokane in 1927"
• "Hot-Rod Songs of the Northwest (1950-1960)"
• "Lloyd Nelson's (1894-1986) Patented 'Trapper Nelson' Backpack Invention"
• "Seattle's National Institute of Music & Arts (1932-1955)"
• "Seattle's 'Negro Musicians' Union'- AFM Local-493 (1918-1958)" 
• "Al Smith (1916-2008): Seattle's Preeminent African American Photographer"