Postcards · September 15, 2024

A museum devoted to telecommunications sounds like a cure for insomnia. Instead, Seattle’s Connections Museum turned out to be packed with ingenious inventions, strange human stories, weird telephones, and volunteers lovingly restoring obsolete switching equipment. Somehow, a building full of telecom nerds became one of my favorite museum visits.

Postcards · September 14, 2024

Built to power a boomtown, the Georgetown Steam Plant in Seattle housed some of the most advanced electrical technology of its era. The future passed it by, but the plant somehow survived. Today, you can walk through a vast industrial relic that preserves an entire chapter of the city’s history.