New one on me, funny 'n weird
Most of this happened long before "my kin" came to this part of the country. All my Mom's kin were from Kansas / Colorado, and my Dad's was originally from there, then Burbank, CA, and came up here from LA in the early 30s My Gramps was a carpenter from a very young age, 12 or so. He came up here and eventually made a career out of USFS carpenter. He's built many of the (many now gone) fire towers up here, and some of them twice
One of Gramps early projects was to build what became the log Ranger Station at Priest lake, and is now a museum up there. He was supervisor of the project. He also helped remodel a work boat on priest. There were 4 large "portholes" in the cabin. My Mom, my aunts, and one of my Grandmothers had the cores out of these holes as chopping boards when I was a kid
The "Clear Jo" under construction
Our family, for years had a nice big print of this in the living room
The old Ranger Station, now the museum
Most of this happened long before "my kin" came to this part of the country. All my Mom's kin were from Kansas / Colorado, and my Dad's was originally from there, then Burbank, CA, and came up here from LA in the early 30s My Gramps was a carpenter from a very young age, 12 or so. He came up here and eventually made a career out of USFS carpenter. He's built many of the (many now gone) fire towers up here, and some of them twice
One of Gramps early projects was to build what became the log Ranger Station at Priest lake, and is now a museum up there. He was supervisor of the project. He also helped remodel a work boat on priest. There were 4 large "portholes" in the cabin. My Mom, my aunts, and one of my Grandmothers had the cores out of these holes as chopping boards when I was a kid
The "Clear Jo" under construction
Our family, for years had a nice big print of this in the living room
The old Ranger Station, now the museum
