by James Canby | Feb 27, 2022 | SW People & Families
The cat was soft and cuddly and used to sitting on people’s laps, purring away. On this particular day, it was sitting on its mistress’ lap, but it wasn’t purring. It was hissing and clawing to get away. Evaline Boyd Craw was attractive and...
by James Canby | Feb 24, 2022 | SW People & Families
A music director was rehearsing his orchestra in Seattle on a summer evening in 1915. He raised his baton with a flourish and music gushed forth the brasses in full voice into a great crescendo; then gradually lowering his baton, he brought the music down to a gentle...
by James Canby | Feb 24, 2022 | SW People & Families
When Jane O’Brien Squires sings, even the birds stop to listen enviously, whether she is soloing or singing with the Sweet Adelines chorus, an organization of which she is an officer. Besides being a much sought-after vocalist, Jane, who lives in Clinton with...
by James Canby | Feb 24, 2022 | SW People & Families
The dignified lady, wearing a diamond tiara and holding the train of her ivory satin ball gown over one arm, was not standing in a ballroom surrounded by admiring gentlemen, as one would expect, judging from here attire. She was standing in a pig pen, up the road from...
by James Canby | Feb 24, 2022 | SW People & Families
The wind was blowing a gale, the rain was pelting down, and even the protected waters of Seattle’s Elliot Bay were raging on a certain day in the early 1920’s when a fireman, named Allen Kelly, looked out across the bay from the fire and police station on...
