We have always wanted to tour the Port of Tacoma, but their free tours are usually scheduled on Sundays. This month, however, they had a Friday morning tour.
It was an hour and a half tour in a comfy tour bus and would have been very informative, but the PA system started smoking when they turned it on so they turned it off. Consequently since we were seated in the back of the bus, we only caught a small portion of what seemed to be an interesting description of what were seeing.
Maybe next time it is not on a Sunday, we will try and catch it again. After the Port tour, we went to the Oakwood Cemetery in Tacoma to try and find Karl's great great grandmother's brother's grave. We recently discovered he died in 1881 and was buried in Tacoma.
We pulled in to the cemetery and tried to find a place near the office to park only to get trapped by a funeral procession going by. We had to wait until they trailed from the chapel to their grave site. We could tell they looked Eastern European.
We learned it was a funeral for a Ukrainian man. We could hear them singing in Ukrainian as they walked by.
After a lot of wandering looking for Joseph Hedrick, Karl came out of the office with a map. He was a Civil War Veteran and thus was in a special section and his was the very first marker we passed as we entered the cemetery. He was born in 1847 in Ohio, served in the Civil War Oregon Infantry (which never actually fought) and died in Tacoma at the age of 44 of consumption on December 4, 1881. It's amazing what you can find on the Internet!
2 comments:
Sounds like a great excursion! I would have loved to take a tour of the Port of Tacoma. I didn't know they did tours. I'll put that on my list of things to do the next time I'm near the Puget Sound. I hope all is well with you and your family!
We are doing great and finally getting a little summer weather! Your boys would enjoy the Port Tour--they are hard to catch though. They only happen once a month and usually on Sundays.
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