WENATCHEE — Let’s take a stroll down memory lane to the Washington State Apple Blossom Festival of 1974, a time before beer gardens and social media, when youngsters cruised up
My memories of my great-grandmother began around 1936. We had just moved to Malaga. Our living conditions became a little more primitive than when we had lived in Wenatchee. Gone
Russel Balenger was eight years old when a suspicious fire destroyed the 18-room house his family lived in at St. Anthony Avenue and Fisk Street, a rooming house of sorts that his parents ran for Black railroad workers. That was in 1958, not long before construction of Interstate 94 claimed what was left of his home and bore a literal cavity through the historically-Black Rondo neighborhood. .