<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>I've taken the "underground" tour; it was fascinating. It was also fascinating a year later to see the same kind of bored-treetrunk pipes in the ruins of Copenhagen's original castle, from ~700 years earlier; steampunk lets Bear (and Priest before her) gloss over just how primitive Seattle was <150 years ago.</div>
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<DIV id=wmQuoteWrapper>-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] reading-group Members List<BR>From: "Wes Brodsky" <<a href="mailto:wesbrodsky@comcast.net">wesbrodsky@comcast.net</a>><BR>Date: Sat, July 25, 2015 2:10 pm<BR>To: "'NESFA Reading Group'" <<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a>><BR><BR>Underground Seattle and sewing<BR><BR>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:<BR>"For the regrade, the streets were lined with concrete walls that formed<BR>narrow alleyways between the walls and the buildings on both sides of the<BR>street, with a wide "alley" where the street was. The naturally steep<BR>hillsides were used, and through a series of sluices material was washed<BR>into the wide "alleys", raising the streets to the desired new level,<BR>generally 12 feet higher than before, in some places nearly 30 feet. At<BR>first pedestrians climbed ladders to go between street level and the<BR>sidewalks in front of the building entrances"<BR><BR>Also, and interesting video (after the advertisement):<BR><BR><a href="http://www.history.com/topics/us-states/washington/videos/seattles-grungy-un">http://www.history.com/topics/us-states/washington/videos/seattles-grungy-un</a><BR>derground<BR><BR>Wes<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: reading-group [<a href="mailto:reading-group-bounces@lists.nesfa.org">mailto:reading-group-bounces@lists.nesfa.org</a>] On Behalf<BR>Of Joel P. Lord<BR>Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 12:00 AM<BR>To: <a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a><BR>Subject: [nesfa-reading-group] reading-group Members List<BR><BR>Chip Hitchcock <BR>"David G. Grubbs" <BR>"David G. Grubbs" <BR>"David G. Grubbs" <BR>Gay Ellen Dennett <BR>Gay Ellen Dennett <BR>Robert Luoma <BR>Mike Kerpan <BR>Tony Lewis <BR>Michael Sharrow <BR>Suford Lewis <BR>Wesley Brodsky <BR>_______________________________________________<BR>reading-group mailing list<BR><a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a><BR><a href="http://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group">http://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group</a><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>reading-group mailing list<BR><a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a><BR><a href="http://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group">http://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group</a><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></span></body></html>