‘Secret Spokane’

Adriana Janovich, associate editor of Washington State Magazine, will be talking about her latest book, Secret Spokane: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure, at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 12, at Neill Public Library in downtown Pullman.

Secret Spokane, published April 1, 2016, by Reedy Press, details some of the most wacky and whimsical spots in Washington’s second-largest city. Easygoing and eclectic Spokane — birthplace of Father’s Day, childhood home of crooner Bing Crosby, and host of the longtime Lilac Bloomsday Run — is a lot of fun. And a little bit haunted. Half of Spokane’s downtown buildings are historical, lending themselves to ghost signs and ghost stories. Secret Spokane explores some of these stories and many others, too.

Find out what life was like for a wealthy Spokane family in the early 1900s at the Campbell House. See where Charles Manson’s mother is buried. Sip a cocktail named for Veronica the — friendly? — ghost at The Bad Seed. Meet Spokane’s marmots and gang of wild South Hill turkeys. And fall in love with the quirky and unpretentious arts, culture, and culinary capital of the Inland Northwest.

Secret Spokane follows Janovich’s 2024 book, Unique Eats and Eateries of Spokane, also from Reedy Press.

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