Branding is really about belonging and a sense of place. As I dig into indigenous ways of knowing, I am realizing that this need for place is so intrinsic to humankind that it has given way to our ...

David Sobel, an education professor at Antioch New England Graduate School, lives outside Keene, New Hampshire, on a wooded hill in a frame house with a wood stove. Although we’d never met, he’d ...

Sense of Place Cafe in Arlington Forest is now closed. The independent coffee shop and cafe in the Arlington Forest Shopping Center at 4807 1st Street N. closed last week, before the July 4 holiday, ...

An increasing number of travelers are finding that one of the best ways to learn about the people and cultures of the destinations they visit is by gaining a better understanding of their local foods ...

In all its multiple meanings the word heritage refers to what we inherit from the past, both in material and immaterial sense. Some authors speak about heritage as a sense of past, meant as a form of ...

Growing up in Edmonds during the 1970s, many beautiful attributes of the Pacific Northwest became inseparable from my notion of what “Seattle’’ really was. I vividly remember the smell of the beach, ...

JACKSON, KY — The home where Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) spent his summers with his grandparents still stands just outside a tiny town in Breathitt County, Kentucky. Vance has credited this place with ...

In 1962, the studios of the architecture graduate program at Yale University occupied the top floor of the Louis Kahn–designed 1953 Yale University Art Gallery. As a student in the architecture ...

WE’RE DEBUTING A new feature in Pacific NW magazine this week called A Sense of Place. The first installment is about the every-other-Wednesday Silent Reading Party at the Hotel Sorrento on First Hill ...