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On a Thursday morning in late May of 1934, Washington State Parks Superintendent William G. Weigle drove from his Seattle office to Millersylvania State Park in Thurston County, about 14 miles south of Olympia. It was the day after Memorial Day, which had seen a grand parade downtown that featured aging Civil War veterans who rode through the streets on floats.
Memories of the conflict may have been fading by this point, but even decades after the defeat of the Confederacy ended legal slavery, Black Americans continued to experience pervasive racism. This was true both legally – through Jim Crow laws in the South and other forms of state-sponsored segregation in the North – and in racist attitudes that persisted, even among self-proclaimed progressives.
Why is this shrimp fishery nearly conflict-free? Sam Wotipka June 11, 2014 From the print edition Like Tweet Email Print Subscribe Donate Now Harvesting brine shrimp cysts from Great Salt Lake, Utah. Wayne Wurtsbaugh, Utah State University A male brine shrimp uses large claspers to grasp a female for mating. Wayne Wurtsbaugh, Utah State University In October of 1951, a letter appeared in The Aquarium, a magazine for fish hobbyists.
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