I happened across this Wikipedia article about the Regrading projects in Seattle during its early history. Being a huge history nut, it was great to see something like this posted on the Internet for the world to see. What I didn't realize was that there were many many more than just the "Denny Regrade" project I had heard about for years. Executive Overview: Seattle cuts the top off high places and puts the dirt in low places to create more land. Try that today! EPA and Activists will be all over you like history professors on the dollar rack at the used book store...
As a young boy living in Preston I lived next to the elderly Charlie Erickson, whose family was instrumental in the regrade project. I wish I could have remembered more of Charlie than what he fed me after Kindergarten in 1969-70. My parents, and a book written by his daughter, indicate that he was quite a character. He was also one of the best logging road designers in the Northwest, and could out-hike both my sisters...even in his eighties.
So in a sense at 6 years old I had a brush with Seattle history, one that fed me Spaghetti-Os.
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