Nina Shapiro

At age 17, Sergio Marquez left his hometown in the Mexican state of Michoacán and traveled to the small U.S. town of Wapato, amid the fertile farmlands of Washington's Yakima Valley. Even in Mexico, he had heard about the valley's famed apple trees — and the work that could be...

"Wicked!" Richard Winn exclaims as he stands on Seattle Center's Broad Street Lawn during Bumbershoot, expressing appreciation for the French band Nouvelle Vague. "That's weird — I got goose bumps on that one." He pulls up the sleeve of his blue sweat jacket to prove it. The bubbly 42-year-old British...