By Moira Stockton, Research Assistant
An op-ed in the Seattle Times by Dr. Laura Laffrado, Director of the Ella Higginson Recovery Project and professor of English at Western Washington University, discusses development of the Pacific Northwest, particularly the Seattle area, through the words of an Ella Higginson essay “The New West” published in 1892.
“She [Higginson] could not have imagined the immense population of the region today and what would be needed to support such massive growth. But she rightly feared the changes to come,” Laffrado writes.
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