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Sketched March 20, 2013 Pure. Clean. The best drinking water in the world. People are raving about the mineral spring on 164th Street in Lynnwood where fresh water flows at a rate of 10 gallons per minute. Betty Bowie, of Green Lake, has been coming here for more than 15 years. “If you make coffee with this…

May 27, 9:46 a.m. [View larger] [Continued from Thursday's post] Jeanne Rogers and her husband, Gary, sat across from each other inside Interurban car 55. I situated myself on the seats across from them and sketched away while listening to a plethora of rail facts and stories. Interurban car 55 is not really a trolley,…

May 27, 10:50 a.m. [View larger] [Map] There’s something ironic about light rail service coming to Seattle this year. There was already light rail in the region a hundred years ago. It ran from Tacoma to Everett. I’m sure you’ve heard of the Interurban: • Service between Tacoma and Seattle started in 1902. The Seattle-Everett…