The wild Pacific Northwest can pull at any artist’s imagination, whether that artist is a painter, writer, photographer or unsuspecting hiker. The region’s gloomy winters, dense forests, rugged mountains and deep Puget Sound act as an ideal backdrop for mysteries, thrillers, UFO sightings and legends. Ask any “Twin Peaks” fan who has visited the Snoqualmie…
Year: 2010
Cascade View students learn life lessons in black and white
So far as we know, Bobby Fischer never broke from his 1972 chess match with Boris Spassky to ask his coach to tie his shoelaces. And he never captured Spassky’s bishop while whistling like a falling missile. Yet, that’s the kind of thing that goes on at Chess4Life, an after-school program available every Wednesday afternoon…
Northwest Railway Museum dedicates new exhibition building
NEW — 6:00 a.m. Oct. 13, 2010 Supporters of the Northwest Railway Museum gathered Oct. 2 to dedicate the Train Shed at the museum’s Railway Historic Center. About 180 people climbed onto the museum’s restored train for the one-mile trip from the Snoqualmie Depot to the center’s campus to the south. Museum Director Richard Anderson directed the celebration…