In this issue:
HISTORY COMMENTARY
Remembering 25 years of COLUMBIA
By Robert Carriker
MOUNTAIN OF SHELL
The lives of Japanese American laborers in the oyster industry,
reflected in their poetry
By LLyn De Danaan
FROM THE COLLECTION
Poster stamps
UNDER THE APPLE ORCHARD
A remarkable Clovis site discovery in eastern Washington
By Ruth Kirk and Richard D. Daugherty
IMAGE COLLECTIONS ONLINE
Depression-era dolly
BOOTH GARDNER
While battling Parkinson’s disease, Washington’s popular 19th governor (1985–1993) has championed education and “death with dignity”
By John Hughes
HISTORY IN THE NEWS
Fifty years go, Washington was home to the Century 21 Exposition,
the second of three world’s fairs held in this state
By Paul Creighton
DECONSTRUCTING CHAPMAN
Solving the mysteries surrounding an old map of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s land claims around Fort Nisqually
By Steve A. Anderson
COLUMBIA REVIEWS
RETROSPECTIVE REVIEWS
Edwin Parker’s Timber
By Peter Donahue
ADDITIONAL READING
COLUMBIA REVIEWS
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