It’ s
hell on earth out there, people!
A couple of inches have accumulated here in West Seattle and you know what that means (what with the hills and relatively few snow plows): we aren’ t going anywhere for a while.
That means the Great Blizzard Of ’08 will give us plenty of time to look back at the Great Blizzard Of ’16. Skating on Green Lake for two weeks — that’s some serious stuff.
Click. [I'm going to defer the Friedlander post until a later date]
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| Skating on Green Lake, 1916. |
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| Postcard sent from Stan, 1916. |
Dorothea Nordstrand wrote a wonderful essay about skating on Green Lake in 1930. It is reprinted on historylink.org here:
http://tinyurl.com/3kv9jd
Simply magical!