Personal

Personal projects, local history, and reflections by Richard Sprague.

Joseph Foster: Tukwila Founder

The history of Joseph Foster, one of the first non-Native settlers in Tukwila, Washington, who homesteaded on the Duwamish River in 1852.

Mercer Island Social Capital

Local implications of a Harvard sociology study

Red Town Trail Coal Creek Then and Now

Tracing the history of a popular Bellevue hiking trail

That wasn’t fun

Why I spent four nights in the hospital