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Vicky Carwein interview
No full textVicky Carwein describes her time as the dean and later first chancellor of UW Tacoma. In this interview, she explains her vision for the university and her approach to assembling an advisory board that included influential business leaders. She recalls making the personal decision to relocate to Tacoma and her first impressions of the campus that was still under construction then. She reflects on the rapid growth UW Tacoma experienced during her administration, the entrepreneurial spirit of the initial faculty, staff, and community movers and shakers, and the focus on serving the South Puget Sound region. She emphasizes the importance of the community and business leaders' investment in the success of UW Tacoma, and she compares her experience at UW Tacoma with other flagship university systems where she has worked.Vickie Lynn Carwein (b. 1948) was the first chancellor of University of Washington Tacoma. She joined UW Tacoma in 1995 as the new dean, succeeding Bill Richardson. Born in Gwynneville, Indiana, Carwein grew up in Indiana and was the first in her family to attend college. Prior to UW Tacoma, she began her academic career at University of Nevada Las Vegas as an instructor of nursing and later served as dean of the College of Health Sciences. After UW Tacoma, she served as the president of Westfield State College in Massachusetts and then chancellor of Washington State University's Tri-Cities campus for six years. She was later the chancellor of the former Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) from 2012 to 2017 before she retired. She holds a doctorate in nursing from Indiana University and master's degree in nursing from University of California, San Francisco.The oral history interview with Vicky Carwein was part of the “Founding Stories” phase of the UW Tacoma Oral History Project.To request a high resolution or uncompressed reproduction, or to obtain permission to use any portion of this item, contact University of Washington Tacoma Library. Email: [email protected]. Please reference the Digital ID Number
Protest against genetically engineered salmon: view from above of art work being created, Seattle, October 21, 2020
No full textProtest against genetically engineered salmon occurred on October 12, 2020 on Indigenous People's Day in the breezeway between Suzzallo and Allen Libraries at the University of Washington. Image includes the the phrase "Honor Indigenous Knolwedge.On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Coast Salish activists and members of the Muckleshoot Tribe joined with community organizers from the Uprooted & Rising (UNR) Seattle branch and Community Alliance for Global Justice and took action to raise public awareness about the upcoming release onto the market of genetically engineered (GE) salmon owned by AquaBounty (NASDAQ: AQB). Salmon has tremendous cultural significance to Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Quinault, and other Coast Salish Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest. A banner proclaiming “Boycott GMO Salmon! Stop Ocean Privatization! Protect Future Generations! #BlockCorporateSalmon!” was hung at three symbolic locations: the Chief Seattle statue, the University of Washington, and over the University Bridge. Source:Salmon; GMOCommunity Alliance for Global Justice; Uprooted & Rising
Protest against genetically engineered salmon: view of completed artwork from ground level, Seattle, October 12, 2020
No full textProtest against genetically engineered salmon occurred on October 12, 2020 on Indigenous People's Day in the breezeway between Suzzallo and Allen Libraries at the University of Washington. Image includes the the phrase "Honor Indigenous Knolwedge" and the hashtag #blockcorporatesalmon.On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Coast Salish activists and members of the Muckleshoot Tribe joined with community organizers from the Uprooted & Rising (UNR) Seattle branch and Community Alliance for Global Justice and took action to raise public awareness about the upcoming release onto the market of genetically engineered (GE) salmon owned by AquaBounty (NASDAQ: AQB). Salmon has tremendous cultural significance to Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Quinault, and other Coast Salish Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest. A banner proclaiming “Boycott GMO Salmon! Stop Ocean Privatization! Protect Future Generations! #BlockCorporateSalmon!” was hung at three symbolic locations: the Chief Seattle statue, the University of Washington, and over the University Bridge. Source:Salmon; GMOCommunity Alliance for Global Justice; Uprooted & Rising
Protest against genetically engineered salmon: close up of completed artwork, Seattle, October 21, 2020
No full textProtest against genetically engineered salmon occurred on October 12, 2020 on Indigenous People's Day in the breezeway between Suzzallo and Allen Libraries at the University of Washington. Image includes the the phrase "Honor Indigenous Knolwedge" and the hashtag #blockcorporatesalmon.On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Coast Salish activists and members of the Muckleshoot Tribe joined with community organizers from the Uprooted & Rising (UNR) Seattle branch and Community Alliance for Global Justice and took action to raise public awareness about the upcoming release onto the market of genetically engineered (GE) salmon owned by AquaBounty (NASDAQ: AQB). Salmon has tremendous cultural significance to Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Quinault, and other Coast Salish Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest. A banner proclaiming “Boycott GMO Salmon! Stop Ocean Privatization! Protect Future Generations! #BlockCorporateSalmon!” was hung at three symbolic locations: the Chief Seattle statue, the University of Washington, and over the University Bridge. Source:Salmon; GMOCommunity Alliance for Global Justice; Uprooted & Rising
Martin Lee reminiscence of Tim Mayhew
No full textA personal reminiscence of Tim Mayhew by his former partner and longtime friend Martin Lee.Tim Mayhew was a gay community activist in Seattle throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. He became an archivist of the gay community, collecting materials related to gay activism from Seattle groups he was involved in and from many other organizations. Mayhew donated his collections (see Related Collections) to the University of Washington Special Collections in the 1990s. Maxwell Timothy Mayhew was born in Detroit on January 1, 1941 to Maxwell and Jeanne Mayhew. His family lived in Denver, then Salt Lake City, and Salmon, Idaho before moving to Spokane, Washington where Mayhew attended high school. He played flute and piccolo in his high school marching band and in the Husky Marching Band at the University of Washington. He majored in Russian language and linguistics, but interrupted his studies to volunteer in the Army, where he served as a medic stationed at Fort Lewis. After his honorable discharge, he returned to the UW, where he earned a BA and completed graduate studies.
Mayhew was a member of the Seattle Gay Alliance (SGA) in the early 1970s. He served as the chair of the SGA Education Committee circa 1972-1975 and as SGA's first lobbyist in Olympia, Washington in 1973. He helped found Seattle's first Gay Community Center in 1971 and was also involved with the Gay Liberation Front. For several years in the 1970s he served as Seattle editor of the Northwest Gay Review, a newspaper based in Portland, Oregon. He was a member of the ACLU of Washington and served on its Sexual Minorities Committee around 1977 to 1980. Among his many public testimonies and statements are the Position Statement on Homosexual Civil Liberties and Position Statement on Marriage for the ACLU of Washington in 1971. He lobbied in Olympia again circa 1981. In 1993 he helped found the Harvey Muggy Lesbian/Gay Democratic Organization.
Mayhew died on April 30, 2017 in Seattle.1
Reminiscence of Tim Mayhew
By Martin Lee
Seattle, Washington 2020
I’m Martin Lee, telling the story of gay activist, Tim Mayhew. When I would say to him that I someday wanted to write about the part we had in those early days in the gay movement, especially him, he told me, your story is my story.
These then are some of his accomplishments, laboring for the cause. The first few pages are about my coming out, and how it led to meeting Tim. He is one of the two loves of my life, and I long for him to still be around.
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One day near the beginning of fall, 1971, I moved to Seattle from Yakima. I left the city I had been excommunicated from the Mormon Church in, at my instigation and insistence, to be free to be gay. I had come to my Bishop in the fall of 1969, when I was 16, telling him, so he could inform the Stake President as well, that I was gay, and therefore I should be cut off from the Church.
I came to them, they didn’t suspect or come to me, and I demanded that my free agency, as they called it, be respected to no longer be a member. Somehow, in spite of their fiery denunciations of homosexuality, saying that it was second only to murder in its seriousness, I felt deep down that I wasn’t bad for having those feelings. Nor did I deserve to be cast into hell. And I had faith that somehow it would all work out for the good some day, but I had to take that step of liberation first.
I always felt that if you are a member of something, you either obey the rules, or you get out. To remain in an organization that castigated your very existence, and doomed you to an eternal abyss after you died, was hypocritical, wishy-washy fence sitting, and didn’t face the fundamental truth. Even if they’re wrong, it’s still their rules. To keep being a member, in the closet, going on a mission, marrying and having children, enjoying the benefits of praise and acceptance for doing what they saw as the only right way, while posing as someone you’re not, was morally wrong.
They didn’t want to do it, and I went through a long process of trying to persuade them, resulting in the delay between my request, and when it was finally granted on May 18, 1971, not long before graduating high school. They had tried to get me to change my mind, saying they would find a girl for me. They sent a psychologist who was in the Church over from Wenatchee one time to talk to me, and they asked me to reconsider in light of the glorious promises given to me in my Patriarchal Blessing. Contingent of course, on my faith and obedience. How could I turn my back on those? Why, as 2
various members had said, my name would be in lights some day, that I’d rise to become one of the Twelve Apostles, and my Bishop said I’d probably run the whole thing some day. A Stake President said that my blessing was a piece of dynamite.
There’s a certain amount of boiler plate statements that everyone gets in their Patriarchal Blessing, such as that they are from the tribe of Ephraim (unless they are black or brown skinned), general encouragements to follow the path of righteousness in order to have the approval of God, and assurance that you will come forth in the first resurrection. But several people who read mine, as well as some Church leaders, said that mine was different. Although I don’t have proof of what was said, since I shredded that paper long ago, my Bishop said that he didn’t know of anyone else who had memorized theirs.
Among those things said, were:
- It gives me great joy to lay my hands on your head and give you this blessing. Now know ye this, dear brother, that it was through your faithfulness in the spirit world that entitled you to the favorable conditions you now enjoy. You have been born with a strong, healthy, white and delightsome body, for which you should be very grateful. And inasmuch as you keep it clean, and free, and wholesome from the sins and vices of this world, with it you will be able to work out your salvation and exaltation in the Kingdom of God.
- You will be blessed with the good things of the earth, to sustain you in all your doings in righteousness, and have all that is necessary to have a rich and rewarding life, and the blessings of the Lord will follow you throughout your life and throughout the endless ages of eternity.
- The Lord loves you, and you will honored and respected by all who know you, and you shall friends beyond number. In times of trouble or strife, use the Priesthood which you bear, for the Lord will hear you and will graciously answer your prayers.
- Through your faith and obedience, the Lord will bless you with great wisdom, understanding, and spiritual power, and you shall have great power to do good.
I felt especially struck by the phrase, great wisdom and understanding, because ever since I was a young Lutheran boy, who started reading the Bible at 5 or 6, I was fascinated by the story of Solomon in 1 Kings, when God appeared to him in a dream, and said, ask for what I should give you. Then Solomon said, give your servant an understanding heart to judge your people, that I might discern between good and bad. The Lord was pleased with his answer, and said, because you haven’t asked for long life, or for riches, or the lives of your enemies, but have asked for understanding to discern judgment, I will give you a wise and an understanding heart. So that there was none like you before you, nor shall any arise like you. And I have also given you that which you did not ask for, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you all the days of your life… 3
There were also the words in Proverbs, wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom, and with all thy getting, get understanding.
I thought, if only God would ask me the same thing, so I could answer the same way. And here were those strikingly similar key words, encouraging me to follow the path of righteousness, in order to receive that reward that was precious above many others. I had never mentioned my yearning to anyone, in or out of the Church, and certainly not to the total stranger Patriarch in another town outside of mine, that I met that night only a few minutes before he gave me the blessing. Was I to give up that future, all because I wasn’t attracted to women sexually, and instead wanted to be with other guys? How could I turn my back on having great wisdom, understanding, and spirtual power, as well as regular power, to do good? How could anyone know what I wanted except God himself, letting me know what was in my future through his annointed Patriarch, if only I had faith and was obedient?
But I kept asking them to do it. Only then would I feel free from the shackles of their strictures, trying to make me and others feel guilty under their oppressive thumb, squashing our so called perverted thoughts and longings into oblivion. The Bishop was so anguished by my persistent requests, that he once said, what are you trying to do, put an old man six feet under? On that night at the convened Bishop’s Court, they still didn’t want to do it, and tried to change my mind even at the last minute. The Bishop and his two Counsellors were crying, and said what a fine example of the youth I was, in spite of my perceived character flaw. If only I would repent, God would still accept me, and my blessing wouldn’t be nullified. Oddly though, one of the two counsellors used some shocking language coming out of a Church leader, when he said, now let me get this straight – when a girl leans over and you can see into the top of her dress, you don’t want to reach in and feel her boobies? – I answered, no. – But when a guy is sitting and stretches out his legs, you want to reach into his pants? – Yes. I suspected there was something not right about him to be talking like that, like he was on the road to apostasy or something. A few weeks later, he called out to me from across the street downtown, taking a cigar out of his mouth and waving to me with that forbidden stogie in hand, and a big smile on his face, yelling, hey Martin buddy, how are you doing? I found out after, that he had been dropped from the Bishopric.
My official paper, brought to my house later that summer, said that it was upon my insistence, that my name was removed from the records and rolls of the Church – no mention of the reason why. Confirming that the reason they ultimately did it, was because I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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High School Graduation (credit: Martin Lee personal collection)
That summer, I explored a warehouse of books and magazines that was a distribution facility, which was open to the public. Included were sex magazines and books, and my eye caught the title on the lavendar colored spine of one book called, The Gay Insider – New York, written by John Francis Hunter. My heart was beating with excitement when I got it, and I could hardly wait to get home to start reading it. He wrote about all the places to cruise in New York – bars, baths, the docks, parks, you name it. And he had information about gay liberation organizations and other places of interest to gay people, like the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookstore. This was a completely new world to me, and I was fascinated and heady with the deluge of info.
I had the idea that I needed to move to either New York or San Francisco to come out. I wrote to John, and the owner of the Oscar Wilde bookstore, to say, I’m stuck here in this small town, should I move to one of those gay meccas? They wrote me back, saying that New York was very expensive, and as far as the West Coast, why not make a more practical move to Seattle? They gave me the address of the Seattle Gay Alliance, a PO box, so I wrote them saying that I wanted to move to the big city to be my real self. I got a letter back from the President of SGA, who used what I later found out was a pseudonym, to keep closeted. He also enclosed a one page, orange colored flyer about 5
SGA, with a title of, You’re Not Alone, which gave the address of the newly opened Gay Community Center, near Pioneer Square, at 102 Cherry St.
So, I got a map of Seattle, got a one-way Greyhound ticket, and planned my route to get to the GCC from the bus station. I packed my suitcase, and headed out on my adventure into the unknown on that day about a week before the end of September. I got off the bus in the biggest city I’d ever been in, and made my way west down Stewart St to 2nd Ave, then turned south till I got to Cherry St, and then west a partial block to just up from the corner of 1st Ave, off Pioneer Square, one business between it and the goal of my journey. There it was, downstairs from the street level, to where a lot of old Seattle had once been, there and the nearby area, now tucked underground. The door was open, and the sunlight was coming in brightly at the bottom of the stairs, with the sounds of construction going on inside. There was a guy at that entrance below who happened to be standing there, looking up at me wonderingly as I was going down the stairs. He was the first gay man I ever met, as well as the first person I talked to in my new city.
I showed him my letter from the SGA President, he confirmed that he knew him, since he was also on the SGA Board, and then he called him to let him know I had arrived. He then turned the phone over to me, and he assured me that the stranger I had just met, was a decent person that I could trust to stay with. So, I crashed with him for a few days. We went to the 107 Club one night, which was at 107 Occidental Ave S., just off 1st & Yesler, that was open to those under 21 since they didn’t serve alchohol. While waiting in line to pay a dollar cover charge, the music was blasting away, Rod Stewart singing Maggie. Inside was a large dance floor, and some go-go boys were on a small perch above the floor, scantily clad and gyrating their hips to the thunderous beats. A little after, a guy came up and asked me if I wanted to dance, and after that one dance and talking awhile, he invited me to his place. I told my host I came there with, that I was going to this person’s home, where I crashed with him instead for a couple of days. Then I returned to my first host’s place. The Board of SGA met on Thursday nights at the GCC, so I went with him that September 30th, and sat on one of the stools at the end of the bar, a long rectangle that was dusty from all the construction in this very rustic hall, with a wooden floor and brick walls. I waited there while they were meeting in chairs on that floor, strewn with signs of the remodeling going on. 6
Gay Community Center – bar area adjacent to kitchen (credit: University of Washington Special Collection, Tim Mayhew photograph collection)
After they were done, I met someone that changed my life forever. Tim Mayhew, one of the board members, and Education Officer of the Seattle Gay Alliance, came up to me, introduced himself, and offered to give me a tour of the city. So, the guy I’d been staying with drove me over to Tim’s place the next morning. I moved in with him that October 1st, and we lived together for the next 13 years, remaining very close after I moved, for the more than 32 years after that. He showed me many of the sights that weekend, including the University of Washington, Seattle Center, the Pike Place Market, downtown, etc. We held hands at the Woodland Park Zoo, getting disapproving stares, while I was wearing the same kind of tee shirt that had GAY on it, along with intertwining male ♂ and female ♀ symbols, that Paul Barwick had worn when he and John Singer applied for a marriage license 11 or 12 days earlier. It was yellow, with red letters, and there I was, 18 years old, proclaiming to the world that I was out and proud of who I was, not afraid of their opinions.
John spent most of his time in the Gay Liberation Front, being more radical than the more conservative Dorian Society. At one of Dorian’s meetings shortly before, State Senator Pete Francis discussed the revised marriage law, that interestingly, hadn’t specified gender. So the idea of challenging the law was gathering steam to be born. 7
Tim was the first person to give John the news about it prior to that meeting, and added his encouragment to John’s immediate eagerness, to take up that torch and test the waters. So, with the mix of the idea being bandied about with other activists, and John, never a shy wall flower and always eager to take on a challenge, he and Paul went down to the Auditor’s Office in the King County Admin Bldg, and demanded a marriage license, but were refused.
John Singer and Paul Barwick, applying for marriage license September 20, 1971
Before resuming my account , the following is more background information about the beginnings of the marriage equality fight here:
Michael Boucai, author of Glorious Precedents: When Gay Marriage Was Radical , contacted Tim when he was doing research for it, and came to Seattle in 2014 to interview him. Some of their followup email correspondence follows.
Michael Boucai to Tim Mayhew 5/30/14
Dear Tim,
I thought I had a postal address for you in my files in New York; alas, I was wrong! So now I must thank you by email, and much too long after the fact, for the time we spent together during my first visit to Seattle. Your memory, vocabulary, intelligence, and intellect are just astonishing. So too are the thousands of papers that constitute the Tim Mayhew Collection at UW -- with so many of them dated (!) in your own unmistakable handwriting. Those papers are treasures. Thank you for saving them and thank you for giving them away.
Sincerely, Michael 8
Tim Mayhew to Michael Boucai 6/6/14
Michael-- It was a pleasure to meet you. I will be happy to try to answer from memory any questions that may come up after you have read some documents.
You said you were focused on the origins of the marriage movement. That was a very remote concern 40-47 years ago, but the legislative reforms in which I had a hand and that became Washington constitutional and statute law in 1973, even provided fully for gender-neutral marriage, among other things.
The State of Washington threw out the colonial sodomy laws over a generation before the U.S. Supreme Court did, but it was never mentioned on television. I think most of the public never realized how benighted the old laws were, because those laws were never mentioned, either. Married women could not own property until 1967.
--Tim Tim Mayhew to Michael Boucai 8/26/14
As for Singer v. Hara, I am the direct cause of that. As I came back from lobbying the legislative session that passed it, I told friend John Singer that nobody had yet tried to use the new marriage law, and what it provided. He wanted to be the first, to make sure that it was pushed to the limit, so he grabbed his friend Paul Barwick and went ahead. They were comrades of the campaigns, and no romance was involved, which is appropriate for a civil property contract. Lloyd Hara, who has been County Auditor and State Treasurer, was the elected official responsible for issuing licenses, and he was notified by John that John was bringing a test case and the TV news crews to the courthouse, so Hara came out into the marble hallway and formally denied the license for the cameras, so that the courts could test the law. Personally, as a Seattle Democrat, he would not object, but this was a public ritual to settle all doubts. To general astonishment, half the Justices of the Supreme Court in Olympia defied state law to preserve old custom. Years later, after dozens of cases across the U.S. had used Singer as precedent, the Supreme Court of Hawaii ruled that the Washington court was just wrong under Washington law. Finally, under our last governor, a vote of the people again confirmed gay marriage. I say "again" because gay marriage was implied in the Equal Rights Amendment, which was voted in by the Legislature and the people in 1973, and warning of gay marriage was argued explicitly in the official Voter's Pamphlet. The majority adopted it then. Details were spelled out in statutes that conformed the whole Code to the new ERA in the Constitution. That's why the Supreme Court was wrong.
Michael Boucai to Tim Mayhew 8/26/14
I do have some questions about these lines in your email: "As for Singer v. Hara, I am the direct cause of that. As I came back from lobbying the legislative session that passed it, I told friend John Singer that nobody had yet tried to use the new marriage law, and what it provided." Several sources suggest that it was Pete Francis who informed Singer (among others) of the legislative revisions and who at least implied that a case should be brought. Gary Atkins in Gay Seattle reports that Francis conveyed this information at a meeting of the Dorian Society. 9
Francis, incidentally, was the Dorian's lawyer, as you no doubt are aware. I don't think the two stories are necessarily contradictory--the reforms were no secret, and gay marriage was certainly in the air after the Minnesota and Kentucky cases were filed. But it would be interesting and helpful to hear from you whether you think there's any truth to the Atkins version and, if so, whether yours and his can and should be reconciled.
Tim Mayhew to Michael Boucai 8/27/14
News in most hands comes out wrong. I do not have before me the article you mention, but I believe that I have been telling you the truth. I have always been very careful for accuracy, not least because of my linguistic education and working with translations. Twice I have been a newspaper editor and tossed back a lot of sloppy reporting and writing for rework. Sometimes I have been at a news scene and watched how TV reporters misdescribe what is happening before the camera. Ancient Greek literature shows how different classi
Protest against genetically engineered salmon: view of completed artwork from above, Seattle, October 12, 2020
No full textProtest against genetically engineered salmon occurred on October 12, 2020 on Indigenous People's Day in the breezeway between Suzzallo and Allen Libraries at the University of Washington. Image includes the the phrase "Honor Indigenous Knolwedge" and the hashtag #blockcorporatesalmon.On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Coast Salish activists and members of the Muckleshoot Tribe joined with community organizers from the Uprooted & Rising (UNR) Seattle branch and Community Alliance for Global Justice and took action to raise public awareness about the upcoming release onto the market of genetically engineered (GE) salmon owned by AquaBounty (NASDAQ: AQB). Salmon has tremendous cultural significance to Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Quinault, and other Coast Salish Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest. A banner proclaiming “Boycott GMO Salmon! Stop Ocean Privatization! Protect Future Generations! #BlockCorporateSalmon!” was hung at three symbolic locations: the Chief Seattle statue, the University of Washington, and over the University Bridge. Source:Salmon; GMOCommunity Alliance for Global Justice; Uprooted & Rising
Protest against genetically engineered salmon: view of completed artwork from above, Seattle, October 12, 2020
No full textProtest against genetically engineered salmon occurred on October 12, 2020 on Indigenous People's Day in the breezeway between Suzzallo and Allen Libraries at the University of Washington. Image includes the the phrase "Honor Indigenous Knolwedge" and the hashtag #blockcorporatesalmon.On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Coast Salish activists and members of the Muckleshoot Tribe joined with community organizers from the Uprooted & Rising (UNR) Seattle branch and Community Alliance for Global Justice and took action to raise public awareness about the upcoming release onto the market of genetically engineered (GE) salmon owned by AquaBounty (NASDAQ: AQB). Salmon has tremendous cultural significance to Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Quinault, and other Coast Salish Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest. A banner proclaiming “Boycott GMO Salmon! Stop Ocean Privatization! Protect Future Generations! #BlockCorporateSalmon!” was hung at three symbolic locations: the Chief Seattle statue, the University of Washington, and over the University Bridge. Source:Salmon; GMOCommunity Alliance for Global Justice; Uprooted & Rising
Ballard Ave. N.W. showing boarded up businesses during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, Seattle, April 3, 2020
No full textPH Coll 1621.KinseyK20The first confirmed case of the global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States was announced by the Washington State Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on January 21, 2020. The patient had recently returned from Wuhan, China, on January 15, 2020, where a pneumonia outbreak caused by the coronavirus started in December 2019.
This case marked the beginning of the coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak in Washington State and the beginning of a radical change in the lives of the citizens of Washington and the rest of the United States. The virus rapidly spread through the population so that within a month, businesses were closed and boarded up, unemployment soared to record highs as people lost their jobs overnight, schools and public events were canceled. People began stocking up on toilet paper, hand sanitizer and other products leaving grocery store shelves bare of some products. By March 23rd, Governor Jay Inslee directed Washington residents to stay home by executive order with exceptions for essential critical infrastructure workers. Until mid-March, Washington State had the highest number of confirmed cases and the highest number per capita of any state in the country, when it was surpassed by New York State as the virus spread throughout the country
Sign on utility pole reading "Remember to be yourself, be inspired, be respectful and wash your hands!!! - Fantasy A" during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, Ballard Ave. N.W., Seattle, April 5, 2020
No full textSigned: Fantasy A, Seattle's Legendary Rapper Undisputed King of Hustle.
PH Coll 1621.KinseyK81The first confirmed case of the global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States was announced by the Washington State Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on January 21, 2020. The patient had recently returned from Wuhan, China, on January 15, 2020, where a pneumonia outbreak caused by the coronavirus started in December 2019.
This case marked the beginning of the coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak in Washington State and the beginning of a radical change in the lives of the citizens of Washington and the rest of the United States. The virus rapidly spread through the population so that within a month, businesses were closed and boarded up, unemployment soared to record highs as people lost their jobs overnight, schools and public events were canceled. People began stocking up on toilet paper, hand sanitizer and other products leaving grocery store shelves bare of some products. By March 23rd, Governor Jay Inslee directed Washington residents to stay home by executive order with exceptions for essential critical infrastructure workers. Until mid-March, Washington State had the highest number of confirmed cases and the highest number per capita of any state in the country, when it was surpassed by New York State as the virus spread throughout the country
Woman with face covering waiting in line at the Ballard Farmers Market during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, Ballard Ave. N.W., Seattle, April 5, 2020
No full textIn an effort to support local farmers and to return to normal life, the Ballard Farmers Market, which had been closed due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, reopened on April 18th. To ensure everyone's health and safety during COVID-19, the Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance (NFMA) requested that shoppers and vendors follow strict rules and practice social distancing, refrain from sampling food, and use hand sanitizer and hand washing stations positioned on the premises.
PH Coll 1621.KinseyK73The Ballard Farmers Market is a year-round neighborhood market that sells organic fruits and vegetables exclusively from Washington state farmers. Also at the market one can find on any given Sunday, hot food venders, local artisans and street musicians. The Market stretches along Ballard Ave. N.W. between 20th Ave N.W. and 22nd Ave N.W. In the spring of 2016, the Market extended it's activities onto 22nd Ave. to N.W. Market St. The Ballard Farmers Market has been operating since 2000. On March 14, 2020 the Mayor’s Office suspended all neighborhood farmers markets in the City of Seattle through April 13 in an imperative attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19.
The first confirmed case of the global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States was announced by the Washington State Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on January 21, 2020. The patient had recently returned from Wuhan, China, on January 15, 2020, where a pneumonia outbreak caused by the coronavirus started in December 2019.
This case marked the beginning of the coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak in Washington State and the beginning of a radical change in the lives of the citizens of Washington and the rest of the United States. The virus rapidly spread through the population so that within a month, businesses were closed and boarded up, unemployment soared to record highs as people lost their jobs overnight, schools and public events were canceled. People began stocking up on toilet paper, hand sanitizer and other products leaving grocery store shelves bare of some products. By March 23rd, Governor Jay Inslee directed Washington residents to stay home by executive order with exceptions for essential critical infrastructure workers. Until mid-March, Washington State had the highest number of confirmed cases and the highest number per capita of any state in the country, when it was surpassed by New York State as the virus spread throughout the country