David Sobel, an education professor at Antioch New England Graduate School, lives outside Keene, New Hampshire, on a wooded hill in a frame house with a wood stove. Although we’d never met, he’d ...

Branding is really about belonging and a sense of place. As I dig into indigenous ways of knowing, I am realizing that this need for place is so intrinsic to humankind that it has given way to our ...

You can find your way to Downtown by looking for our striking skyline of tall, grand buildings, even from miles away over the St. Johns or from the interstate. But once you’re there, on the ground, ...

An increasing number of travelers are finding that one of the best ways to learn about the people and cultures of the destinations they visit is by gaining a better understanding of their local foods ...

Growing up in Edmonds during the 1970s, many beautiful attributes of the Pacific Northwest became inseparable from my notion of what “Seattle’’ really was. I vividly remember the smell of the beach, ...

WE’RE DEBUTING A new feature in Pacific NW magazine this week called A Sense of Place. The first installment is about the every-other-Wednesday Silent Reading Party at the Hotel Sorrento on First Hill ...

Please make sure your tray tables are stowed and your seats are in the upright position, because World Cafe's taking you to Japan! We're kicking off our latest Sense of Place series with an interview ...