Lake Apartments Motel Soap Lake Washingtonwash State Highway 7 last name sign A chromolithograph that understood it

A chromolithograph that understood it was witnessing the death of sail and the birth of steel

Stonewall Jackson at Bull Run

gates swinging shut against the tide while fishing boats and timber barges queue in the channel

when veterans had begun the slow labor of fixing 1863's longest Confederate holdout into the marble of national memory

their names and badges rendered with the solemn pageantry a young republic reserved for its uniformed dead

Lake Apartments Motel Soap Lake Washingtonwash State Highway 7 last name sign A chromolithograph that understood itLake Apartments Motel Soap Lake Washington State Highway 7 arrives in roadside repose neon trimmed cabins flanking the mineral shimmer of Soap Lake, where folks once soaked in healing waters thick with froth and minerals along the desert highway's edge. A mid century waystation of clean linens and curative promise, cataloged in the linen era postcards of the open road age. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard