Places Captured in Time, but Not Frozen

Published: July 18, 2008

By William Yardley, The New York Times

They were still wearing Stetsons and spurs, not the tight cycling shorts you see these days, when a writer dispatched by the federal government during the Great Depression reached the end of the road here in the North Cascades. Seven decades later, Winthrop is just a quick trip across the North Cascades Highway ? an escape for Seattleites seeking the dry light, a reprieve from the gray and wet they know best.

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