May 19, 2013

Old Ents and Monster Trees of Pacific Northwest

Logs on train

One of my Bordeaux, WA connections sent me an email today with the title being about “Monster Trees” with content about logging. I’ve been asked many times if I know what was the tallest fir tree logged in Washington state. Sadly, I do not. But if the pictures in the blog post at SBYNEWS entitled [...]

1983 Article By Mike Contris – Olympian Newspaper Columnist

Bordeaux article by Mike Contris

Mike Appreciated My Dad’s Remembrances Of Old Bordeaux, WA This may be a repeat post, but I couldn’t find a previous one in my blogs, so I’m sharing the article by former Olympia, WA columnist Mike Contris again. As you can see it was first published in 1983. The reason I’m sharing it is because [...]

52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History – Radio & Television

Kinsey Photo Train Engines Hoquiam-Polson

There wasn’t much to do in the fall and winter months where I grew up here in western Washington, so we watched a lot of TV. My viewing kind of evolved as television itself did, with local stations airing shows like Brakeman Bill, Captain Puget, J P Patches.   Kinsey Photo #14 – Big Timber [...]

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