Newsletter Article Series Issue 1

1. Seattle: The Emerald City
An Introduction to Seattle: the name, the weather, the location, the Sound.

In 2006, as the nation prepared to watch the Seattle Seahawks battle the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XL, the joke making the rounds among the national sports media was “Where’s Seattle? It’s in Alaska.”

What this anecdote reveals, besides the need for sports writers to look a map, is that despite being part of the 15th largest metropolitan area in the United States, and despite being inhabited for at least 4,000 years, Seattle is still somewhat of an unknown commodity; a hidden gem if you will. Of course that’s very appropriate since Seattle is known as the “Emerald City.”

If those aforementioned sports writer had looked at a map, they would have noticed the city of Seattle nestled in the northwest corner of the United States in the state of Washington.

More precisely, Seattle is located on an isthmus (a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas) between Elliot Bay and Lake Washington. Elliot Bay is an inlet of . . .
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