Calling America

Stories By Real People From Real Places

Places beginning with ‘Seattle’

19September2007

Random Precision Drumming

Posted under places beginning with: S; Seattle; Pioneer Square.

This short glimpse of a Seattle street scene was sent to us by Christian Jacobsen of Seattle, Washington State.
Yesterday I was at my favorite book store in the world - The Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, WA - and I heard drumming. This wasn’t the street musician pounding on overturned buckets. These were real […]

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