b – Ballinger,-Richard-PORTRAIT-WEB

Here is the Judge / Mayor / Secretary of the Interior / & Land & Lake Speculator himself. I believe I copied this from the Rainier Club’s Archive of its early members. Many of them were photographed by Edward Curtis – when he was free of the Indians. At least part of the time, Curtis lived at the club – perhaps in trade out. I did this club copy work for Walt Crowley, a club member, while he was preparing his history of the club. Near the bottom of this week’s feature we will insert a clipping from the first Helix published after the Labor Day weekend celebration named the Sky River Rock Fire Festival. Walt was surely there as was I. The Weltschmerz feature Walt wrote on returning from the festival says nothing about it, but plenty about Walt’s mood and the tone of his temper on the day he wrote his splendid confession of Weltschmerz or “world pain.”

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