Vintage Postcard Of Ballard August 25, 2017

  circa 1900 postcard – another one for my collection – only problem is that this is just a picture of the card – I don’t have the postcard itself

Meeting the Mayor June 1, 2015

  It was the 22nd of May in Seattle.   The King of Norway was visiting here  for several days and we were there to greet him when he came to Bergen Place here in Ballard to dedicate a mural.

  Can you see the King?            

 

 

The King came and went, without a word.  But    –    we met and talked with the Mayor of Seattle, Ed Murray.  It was also the day of the big referendum in Ireland.  The Mayor explained that earlier in the day he had been wearing appropriate items in support of the referendum to make same sex marriage legal in the Emerald Isle.   Both sets of his grandparents emigrated from Ireland to the U.S.   Susan and I enjoyed sharing our Irishness with him.