By Patrick Hamilton From 1987 until his retirement in Spring of 2020, Peter Bohmer worked as a professor of Political Economy at Evergreen. On a cloudless May afternoon, my friend Magnus Cain and I sat down with Peter on his porch here in West Olympia. We asked him to reflect […]
George Washington Bush: an Abridged Biography
By Patrick Hamilton In 1844 the first Americans to settle on the Puget Sound in what is now Washington State were led through the frontier by George Washington Bush, a man of African and Irish descent. Bush, along with his wife (b.)Isabella James, established a farm named Bush Prairie in […]