Viretta Park
Quiet neighborhood lawn above Lake Washington, its public benches turned into a hand-written memorial by decades of visitors.
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This guide to Viretta Park in Seattle starts with the ink-covered bench in this quiet lawn above Lake Washington, then traces the park's namesake, Viretta Chambers Denny, back to a plain neighborhood green space that changed overnight on April 5, 1994. It follows what happened just north of here, at the home of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, and how fans turned to this park's public benches once the house itself was sealed off behind hedges. No plaque names this memorial and no sign explains it, so look for the layers of ink on the bench directly in front of you.
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