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Jennifer Ott | Waterway: The Story of Seattle's Locks and Ship Canal
Literary Notes
50 minutes 42 seconds
3 months ago
Jennifer Ott | Waterway: The Story of Seattle's Locks and Ship Canal
Historian Jennifer Ott joins us to chat about Seattle's drastic 19th century transformation that she writes about in Waterway: The Story of Seattle's Locks and Ship Canal. WTBBL volunteer Martha Baskin conducts an in-depth interview with Ott about the engineering, planning, and immigrant labor that went into connecting the bodies of water within and around the city.