Kerry Park
Hilltop viewpoint framed by a hollow steel sculpture, overlooking the skyline, Elliott Bay and, on clear days, Mount Rainier.
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This guide to Kerry Park in Seattle starts with the steel loop sculpture Changing Form, welded by artist Doris Totten Chase in 1971, and asks why it became one of the most photographed frames in the city. It then follows a fight from the early 1970s, when developers began pouring foundations for high-rises on Queen Anne's south slope that would have blocked this exact skyline. You'll hear how a group calling itself United South Slope Residents gathered thousands of signatures and took their case to court. Stand where the sculpture frames the view, and consider what a handful of neighbors were willing to fight for.
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