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Turner: Dunno Much About Presidents

We all know Spokane has an abundance of streets that share names with past presidents. And in the case of Washington and Lincoln, most of us even know something about the men in question. But what if you went out to other presidential streets and randomly asked people about those historical figures? With an eye toward Monday’s celebration of Presidents’ Day, that’s just what photographer Jesse Tinsley and I did last week. The first stop on our stupefyingly unscientific survey was a business called 2nd Watch Monitoring – “The Leader in Alternative Sentencing” – at 815 N. Monroe St. I asked a friendly woman named Kim Holbert if she knew anything about President Monroe. “Not necessarily,” she said/Paul Turner, The Slice, SR. More here.

Question: Without looking, what do you know about President James K. Polk?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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