Becky Garrison

Washington has a tortured history with liquor. Efforts to ban or restrict it date back to 1854, before the region even attained statehood, with blue laws remaining on the books well into the twentieth century. From Jimmie Durkin, an enterprising saloon owner, to Roy Olmstead, a former Seattle cop turned gentleman bootlegger, the business of liquor has inspired both trouble and innovation.

Join author and journalist Becky Garrison as she traces the history of the barrel and the bottle from early settlement to the modern craft distilling boom in the Evergreen State.

This book speaks to those concerned about the rise of politicized form of US based Christianity. What can contemporary seekers like Garrison learn from her 11th great-grandfather and pioneer of religious liberty? They both champion the separation of church and state, a cause that led them to leave the institutionalized church and continue on as spiritual seekers.

In this collection of snippets and short stories, Roy B. Clogston recounts his lifelong love of sports beginning with his childhood in upstate New York and his college years at Springfield College, where he lettered in five sports. This passion led to his appointments as Athletic Directors for St. Lawrence, N.C. State and Appalachian State Universities. Among the athletes and other newsworthy individuals he encountered along the way include Jesse Owens, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Kirk Douglas, Jim Thorpe, Pop Warner, Sen. Jesse Helms, Sen. Terry Sanford, and Don Rickles.

Currently, this collection of is being reworked as War of the Game, a creative non-fiction account of Roy B. Clogston's World War II adventures coaching the Navy Ford Islanders to win the 1943 Football Championshiop in the Pacific. Think Unbroken goes to The Pacific with A Band of Brothers on Any Given Sunday. During WWII, football served as a tool utilized by the Navy to train aviators, a morale booster for those both stateside and aboard, and a much needed respite from the horrors of the Pacific Theater.