Our gratitude for Jayni Kamin, President of McReavy House Board

Meet John Sundsten, longtime resident of Union and a man of many talents. His story starts when in 1915 his grandfather and a bunch of Swedes bought a big piece of land to the east of what is now Alderbrook Resort. They flipped a coin to see who got which part of it and John’s grandfather won, securing the best property, right on the water where he built a log cabin ten years later. His grandfather was Carl Wallin of the original Wallin & Nordstrom, Seattle’s premier shoe

Let me introduce you to Rosemary Marshall. Those of us who live in Union need no introduction — I’m talking about Rose, our Postmaster. EVERYONE here knows Rose. But let’s start at the beginning… Rose was born in Darwin, Minnesota, a small farming town known as the home of the largest twine ball made by one man. Who knew? Although she lives in Lilliwaup, she has worked for our post office since 2006. She has seven children. And she home-schooled all of them. “And they’re all

We couldn’t get far in our stories about Union without a little history… Many of us know something of John McReavy and may have visited the house he built above Union in 1890. But what do we really know about what he thought or felt? There are facts about him… born in 1840 in Northfield Maine, making his way to the west at just 21, when he was looking for his brother in the gold fields of California. When he learned his brother had died, John continued north. He worked in the