Eatonville
Seattle Post-Intelligencer photographer Paul Joseph Brown captured these glimpses of daily life around the community. Click on a thumbnail to see a page featuring a larger, more detailed version of the image.
Rebecca Weaver works on of her signature rugs made from hand-dyed wool in her Eatonville studio. In the next room, folk singer Tom May entertains Weaver's grandchildren, Tanner and Hunter, who are visiting from Carnation.
A spectacular view of Mount Rainier doesn't distract the track meet competitors in the 1,600-meter run at Eatonville Middle School.
Harold Smiley, 78, has spent hours nearly every day of the last 14 years walking around Eatonville picking up trash. The house in the background was built by the town's founder Thomas Van Eaton in 1906 and is now occupied by one of his descendants.
Rufus the dog's owner is a regular at the Tall Timbers restaurant in downtown.
Elementary schoolgirls from Mineral learn the joys and challenges of pioneer life at the Pioneer Farm Museum in Eatonville.
D.B. Buchonis, animal care technician at Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, feeds two of the park's bison.
Dick Webster, who has lived in this log home for three years, plays the bass fiddle in a bluegrass band called the Ohop Valley Boys, named after the Eatonville valley he lives in.
Retired quarry worker and logger Mike Bertram's Eatonville home puts him in close proximity to his passion -- airplanes.
Chris Johnson works as a banker during the week but drag races on the weekends with her husband, Gary. She sits in her 1929 Model A Ford pickup, parked in front of a mural which depicts logging in Eatonville circa 1929.
Views of Mount Rainier are great all over Eatonville, including the American Legion hall at the corner of Rainier Avenue North and Carter Street.
Students from Harbor Heights Elemenatary School in Gig Harbor leap into a haystack in the barn at Pioneer Farm Museum in Eatonville. The farm offers programs for the public and groups in pioneer and Native American life.
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