MAKING SENSE OF OLYMPIA: A GUIDE FOR NEWCOMERS, TOURISTS, LONG TIME RESIDENTS OR REALLY ANYONE WONDERING HOW THINGS GOT TO BE THE WAY THEY ARE

Making sense of the place where you live is an essential first step if you want to change it. In that regard, making sense of a place is a kind of activism.In exchange for your trust, I’ll be mostly giving you a straight history, but if you know me, you know I can’t just let the local absurdity, accidental poetry or inadvertent humor go by without joining in the fun. So, there’s going to be some of that. I’m going to match your trust with my own and trust you’ll be able to tell when I’m employing a little color, exaggeration and hyperbole to help reveal the deeper truth.When you’re done reading, there will still be parts of Olympia that won’t make sense to you. You may even be more confused than when you started. That’s okay. Olympia may never make sense to you, or anyone else. Making sense of Olympia is an ongoing process.This is not a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are not products of my imagination. Resemblance to actual events, locales and persons, living or dead, is entirely intentional. Read more