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Nov 20, 2024

The Podcast: Hotel High Life

Nov 20, 2024

Oct 17, 2024

The Podcast: Leopold’s Ghost

Oct 17, 2024

Oct 2, 2024

SPIRITS AT SPARK

Oct 2, 2024

Sep 19, 2024

The Podcast: Bellinghairstory

Sep 19, 2024

Aug 15, 2024

The Podcast: History of the Terminal Building

Aug 15, 2024

Jul 18, 2024

The Podcast: Ursula Unfug

Jul 18, 2024

Jun 20, 2024

The Podcast: Bellinghistory Inked

Jun 20, 2024

May 16, 2024

The Podcast: Stuffed Bellinghaminals

May 16, 2024

May 2, 2024

Maritime May-hem

May 2, 2024

Apr 18, 2024

The Podcast: Bellinghamsters and other Tails

Apr 18, 2024

May 4, 2023

The Podcast: Spring Festivals in Bellingham

May 4, 2023

Apr 20, 2023

The Podcast: Exotic Birds of Bham

Apr 20, 2023

Apr 6, 2023

The Podcast: Big Birds in Bad Town

Apr 6, 2023

Mar 28, 2023

History Repeats: The Criminalization of Gender Nonconformity

Mar 28, 2023

Oct 13, 2020

BAD TOWN #2 BAD CURSED TOWN

Oct 13, 2020

Nov 13, 2019

Clairvoyants Raked into Dragnet of Police

Nov 13, 2019

Oct 27, 2019

A Cold and Stormy Night October 1888

Oct 27, 2019

Oct 3, 2019

Feed & Seed and a Belling-History Mystery Man

Oct 3, 2019

Sep 9, 2019

Cleopatra's Barge and Circus Parade, Fairhaven Washington 1891

Sep 9, 2019

Aug 18, 2019

"The Horseshoe Bar" and Barnum and Baileys Circus Bellingham 1908

Aug 18, 2019

Jan 11, 2018

Vintage Furs... Made in Bellingham!

Jan 11, 2018

Sep 19, 2016

Bellingham, 1911: Women Arrested for Wearing Pants

Sep 19, 2016

Jul 9, 2014

Case Study: Lorena Upper the Female Barber

Jul 9, 2014

Kolby LaBree 9/19/16 Kolby LaBree 9/19/16

Bellingham, 1911: Women Arrested for Wearing Pants

In 1911 two young Bellingham women caused a “Flurry” on Holly Street by wearing the latest controversial ladies’ fashion… the “Harem Skirt.” Despite the name, the scandalous aspect of the “Harem Skirt” was really about women wearing “men’s wear,” or pants.