Found a fabulous HISTORYLINK.ORG site. Huge photos, maps, example of the writing below. TIMELINES and BIOS included. HISTORYLINK.ORG http://www.historylink.org/welcome.htm METHODIST MINISTER 1852 Daniel Bagley (1818-1905) was a Methodist preacher who traveled West in covered wagons with his family in 1852 as part of the Bethel Party. He and his wife Susannah Whipple Bagley (1819-1913) and son Clarence Bagley (1843-1932) arrived in Seattle in October 1860. Daniel Bagley established the Brown Church in Seattle in 1860 and besides preaching became a key advocate for the Territorial University and its location in Seattle. He also managed the Newcastle coal mines. His only son Clarence Bagley was 17 when he arrived in Seattle. He became a printer, publisher, and writer, a founder of the Washington State Historical Society, and the region's first and preeminent historian. Rolling Lucky Sevens This week marks the debuts of three Boeing airliners, each of which transformed commercial aviation in its era. The first of the company's trademark series of "sevens" was the Model 247. Designed for Boeing's United Air Lines, the sleek two-engine transport made its maiden flight from Boeing Field on February 8, 1933. Although it was soon surpassed by the DC-2, the 247 was the world's first true airliner and set the standard for all that would follow. Thirty years later, after Boeing's 707 had revolutionized air travel, airlines demanded a shorter-range jetliner able to operate from smaller airports. Boeing responded with the 727, distinguished by its three aft engines, high T-tail, and nimble pilot-pleasing performance. This remarkable aircraft lifted off for the first time from Renton Airport on February 9, 1963. Native Americans of Puget Sound -- A Snapshot History of the First People and Their Cultures Current scientific data indicate that Native Americans arrived from Siberia via the Bering Sea land bridge about 12,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age. Native Americans in King County, who are united by a common Lushootseed or Salish language system, believe they were created in this area at the end of an ancient "Myth Age." Major groups or tribes of local native peoples include the Suquamish, Duwamish, Nisqually, Snoqualmie, and Muckleshoot (Ilalkoamish, Stuckamish, and Skopamish) tribes. They evolved complex cultural, social, and economic structures which the invasion of Euro-American settlers in the mid-1800s almost erased, but which continue today as the tribes struggle for their survival, respect, and renewal. Ceremonies and Traditions The most important uses of the big cedar houses happened after everyone had returned -- after the moon (approximately November) called Sicalwas (shee-chal-wass) "putting paddles away." It was in winter that the most important yet least tangible wealth of traditional Puget Sound -- the ancient legends and ceremonies handed down through generations -- became most manifest. If a village did not possess a separate structure for ceremonial use, one of the large dwelling houses or al?al? (ahl-ahl) could be cleared of partitions and excess domestic furnishings and converted to a piGidaltx (pee-gwee-dalt-wh), a "smokehouse" or "longhouse" where tribal members, friends, and relatives from other groups could nightly share the dances and songs given to them by their guardian spirits as visible proof of a relationship with the supernatural world. Friends and family would help each dancer by singing along with the songs they recognized, and were themselves helped in their turn. Everyone present could benefit from this sharing of tradition and spiritual power from http://www.historylink.org/welcome.htm Sources: A Time of Gathering, ed. by R. Wright (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999); Hermann Haeberlin and Erma Gunther, Indians of Puget Sound (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1930); Eyes of Chief Seattle, Exhibit narrative (Port Madison: Suquamish Museum, 1986); T.T. Waterman, Notes on the Ethnology of the Indians of Puget Sound (New York: Museum of the American Indian, 1973); Arthur Ballard, Mythology of Southern Puget Sound (Seattle: University of Washington, 1929; Snoqualmie Valley Historical Museum, 1999); Maps based on Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992). Laura