A Seattle Times reporter joined us on a recent field workday in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood. The visit appeared in a recent edition of the Seattle Times.
The first class of the new Maritime High School is tackling hands-on challenges, and they have the blisters to prove it.
Inside a storefront at the rumbling, traffic-heavy intersection of South Park’s South Cloverdale Street and 14th Avenue South, Savanna Farnsworth and Mini Lindholm hold up their palms to show the calluses they earned the previous day from learning to row. Their assignment: Sync with six other classmates using 12-foot-long wooden oars to move a 26-foot longboat along the Duwamish River. That boat, by the way, literally weighs a ton.