Life and Times in Leschi: Frink Park, Part 4
For over 25 years, Darrell Howe and Darcy Thompson have been restoring and maintaining Frink and Upper Leschi Parks. Together they have...
Leschi Council
Feb 27, 2024


Life and Times in Leschi: Frink Park, Part 3
A couple of bits of Frink Park history that did not survive the ages were two clay tennis courts. One was on South King Street, just...
Leschi Council
Jan 28, 2024


Life and Times in Leschi: Frink Park, Part 2
Frink Park was created as, and remains, a natural, wooded park in the urban surrounding. It retains the Olmsted vision of a forest...
Leschi Council
Dec 28, 2023

Life and Times in Leschi: Frink Park, Part 1
Established in 1906, Frink Park, Leschi’s vast, rambling woods, lies in the neighborhood’s geographical heart. Yet even those who are...
Leschi Council
Nov 26, 2023

Life and Times in Leschi: The Leschi Ferry Dawn, Part 2
When we left off last month, the redoubtable Lake Washington ferry Dawn had mostly sunk at the Leschi dock in a ferocious 1923 storm....
Leschi Council
Oct 23, 2023

South King County African-American NW Pioneers Recognized with Special Bus Shelter Photo Mural
The legacy of John Newington Conna extends from Texas to Alaska, with a lasting impact in what is now the state of Washington, known then...
Leschi Council
Oct 23, 2023
Odessa Brown Clinic
Seattle Children’s has announced plans to build a new Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic in the Central District at the southwest corner of...
Leschi Council
Sep 25, 2023


Life and Times in Leschi: Angel came down from heaven yesterday
Late last November, along with hundreds of others, I attended a celebration at the Museum of History and Industry of the 80th birthday of...
Leschi Council
Aug 26, 2023


Life and Times in Leschi: Powell Barnett, Part 3
Powell Barnett’s father brought the family in 1889 from Indiana to the coal town of Roslyn, Washington. The elder Barnett had been...
Leschi Council
Mar 26, 2023


Life and Times in Leschi: Powell Barnett, Part 2
In his 1968 interview with Larry Gossett (excerpted here last month), Powell Barnett refers to the fact that housing discrimination was...
Leschi Council
Feb 20, 2023


The Mosquito Fleet
Because I had the luck and privilege of having been raised on the Seattle shores of Lake Washington, I recall the last runs of the...
Leschi Council
Jan 21, 2023
A History of Leschi School
In 1906, the Seattle School Board purchased a parcel of land where a florist named O'Brien had operated a rose garden and greenhouses....
Leschi Council
Dec 30, 2021
