Melissa Stowe’s fascination with a local utopian socialist community known as Equality Colony goes back to her childhood in Bow, Washington. Her family had one of the last of the late 19th century town’s buildings on their property.
Her curiosity about Equality Colony’s history grew as she did, and as a thirteen year old she placed third in a statewide history project based on her research into that history…which included interviews with one of the last colony members.
In this Tales of the Magic Skagit episode, “They Called the Town Equality,” Meyer Sign’s newest Skagit Valley Youth History Project intern, Sayer Theiss, and I talk with Melissa about her connection with the story of Equality Colony, and what she learned about the history of one of Western Washington’s experiments in socialism.
