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Old Ents and Monster Trees of Pacific Northwest

December 14, 2012 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

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 [...]

Filed Under: Old Bordeaux Washington Tagged With: #webduck #genealogy, Australia, logging, Old Bordeaux Washington, Old-growth forest, Pacific Northwest, Tree, Washington

1983 Article By Mike Contris – Olympian Newspaper Columnist

August 27, 2012 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

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 [...]

Filed Under: History, Old Bordeaux Washington, Olympia history Tagged With: #webduck #genealogy, Daily Olympian, logging, Mike Contris, mill workers, Old Bordeaux Washington, the depression, timber, two room school, Yates

A Visit To Old Bordeaux

March 21, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

[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 [...]