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I am an ENFP, procrastinator, and inventor of holidays. I wish I needed my own business cards. My daughter says that I'm a good fixer of things.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists. ~H. Allen Smith

The list is the origin of culture... ~Umberto Eco

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Kate Things I Love (November 2024)
  • Victoria Ek, the first woman employee (industrial) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in 1916.
  • Manette bridge opening June 21st, 1930. Recreate that photograph. 
  • The beautiful Kalakala ferry. 1935-1967.
  • 250 Yeomanettes at the shipyard during WWI. 
  • Gramma Hattie was a pioneer of Port Orchard (then Sydney). Find her house.
  • Bremerton, WA 1901-1904 Women wearing white sailor trousers or blue overalls would be fined $10-$50 & sentenced to 30 days in jail. 
  • Manette became part of Bremerton September 1918.    
  • Deportation of Japanese-Americans to internment camps beginning 1942. Especially research the effects on Bainbridge Island and Seattle.
  • Starvation Heights.
  • Mercer girls especially Lizzie Ordway.
  • Bellingham stump homes.
  • The Wild Man of Wynoochee
jun 10 2010 ∞
sep 21 2010 +