Last year I wrote a story that proved quite popular with our Tales of the Magic Skagit audience. It was the story of a failed socialist utopia that was created just southeast of Blanchard, WA (the birthplace of Edward R. Murrow) at the end of the 19th century. It was called Equality Colony, and it was the inspiration of an association called the Brotherhood for Cooperative Commonwealth (BCC), which established a headquarters in Edison, WA — hence the title of our story, “Welcome to the People’s Republic of Edison, Comrades!” We got a lot of great response from this story, including from folks who had some additional history to share — most notably from Skagit Valley’s own “Territorial Daughters,” whom I thank for the addendum to the original story which I include in this podcast version.
