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The Communications Committee has been considering a way for FHA members to receive prompt email notification of news stories related to the houseboat community. Some of you have subscribed to notices from The Dock Watch, but many new postings in News and Events on the FHA website have passed unannounced.  (Correction:  See below.)  All that is about to change.

Ships on Lake Union, Seattle. Staff Photographer Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Date filed: May 15, 1936 Bigger image.

The FHA in cooperation with the Museum of History and Industry is searching for writers whose work is informed by Lake Union. Perhaps you know of a hidden gem like Three's a Crew, the one excerpted below. Maybe you have found a paragraph in an old journal where the writer mentions Lake Union. Do you have letters from a 1950s houseboater? Are you writing poetry, fiction or non-fiction, focused on the lake? If so, let us know.  MOHAI historian, Lorraine McConaghy, and the FHA want to collect a variety of Lake Union stories and publish them in the newsletter or on the FHA website.

Changes have come to houseboat communications. The editors hope you are excited about our new color newsletter. It is such a pleasure to print color photos in…color. And readers will thank the talented houseboaters who responded to requests for photos taken during the December holidays and the snowstorms.  Our community never looked more beautiful.

The newsletter editors hope you have visited the new web site. Since we went on line in April, there have been quite a few updates. Check out the Environmental page. There is a great deal going on with the Shoreline Master Program, and, Bob Bowman has explained how the changes to the SMP might impact individual houseboaters. As always, Safety and Security reports on relations with the Police and Fire Department and keeps tabs of crime via Dock Watch. Now you can find up to the minute information on the FHA web site.

I’m sure you know the importance of the newsletter in recording the history of our Association. It is our ambition to create an available resource about our community as well as providing information to the larger community. The FHA, through its new archiving project, has been sorting and counting