Leschi Council
Jan 28
Life and Times in Leschi
The Army Camp: A Researcher’s Odyssey Part 3 Soon after my second search through school district papers for references to the army camp...


Leschi Council
Nov 26, 2024
Life and Times in Leschi
The Army Camp: A Researcher’s Odyssey Part 1 Before the present-day Powell Barnett Park in Leschi was acquired by Seattle’s park...
Leschi Council
Sep 24, 2024
Life and Times in Leschi
Frink Park 9: William Cumming, Part 2 I became interested in the artist William Cumming last year, when I attended a “town hall” put on...


Leschi Council
Aug 27, 2024
Life and Times in Leschi
Frink Park 8: William Cumming, Part 1 “Sometime in an autumn in the late fifties … I was living in a disintegrating house on Thirtieth...


Leschi Council
Aug 27, 2024
State of the Parks: Yearly Report from the Parks and Greenspace Committee
It has been 9 years since the passage of the metropolitan park district (MPD) which promised enhanced maintenance of neighborhood parks....
Leschi Council
May 26, 2024
Life and Times in Leschi
Frink Park 7: Carlos Bulosan, Part 2 Carlos Bulosan’s union work and his writing ability led him from California back to Seattle, where,...


Leschi Council
Apr 22, 2024
Life and Times in Leschi
Frink Park: Carlos Bulosan, Part 1 Overlooking hills and valleys, where trees dance and birds sing under the splendor of the sun in...

Leschi Council
Jan 28, 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
Dec 28, 2023
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
Nov 26, 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
Sep 25, 2023
September LCC General Meeting: Parks Staff Responded to Questions
The Leschi Community Council invited key staff members of the Parks Department to answer questions at the September 6 General Meeting....
Leschi Council
Aug 26, 2023
Notes from the T Dock
We try, on sunny summer afternoons, of which there have been countless this year, to catch a swim in the lake. Typically, it’s a paddle...

