As you may have noticed, I have not posted for a while. I have been on a genealogical journey of sorts, researching the Bordeaux family of Washington state. After I wrote my article A Visit to Old Bordeaux, to my surprise I was contacted by one of the Bordeaux family descendants and he and I [...]
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[Due to a blog glitch, I have re-posted this story.]
Last Friday, my aunt Twyla and Uncle Wally Yates, my cousins Edris and Jack Harbeston, my brother Dave Yates and his wife Kathy, and my husband Jim and I, went on a little adventure so Wally could visit “one more time” the old town of Bordeaux [...]
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It was an early spring morning in the rural Thurston County logging town of Bordeaux, Washington. Located in the Mima Creek valley, it is likely that the little town was abuzz with the sounds of the mills and logging trucks delivering their loads of timber from the Black Hills.
Young mother of two, Blanche Philby who [...]
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