Friday, May 18, 2012

It was cool yesterday but we had a great time. Our first trip was to a telephone museum and it was really interesting. Just 2 doors away was an antique shop and I found a porcelain toast rack. Ken collects them. He now has 5 but they are all metal so this was exciting . We had lunch together in Cle Elum and then we drove to Roselym where we visited a coal mining museum. This was quite the community. The TV series Northern Exposure was filmed here.Bing Crosby's brother was born here,they had the first black Mayor in Washington.There was a serious mine strike and the company imported hundreds of African people to work in the mine and break the strike, and that explains the presence of Blacks in this area.. There is a large cemetery there and we visited it after the museum. There are actually 26 cemeteries because people were divided in death. Each ethnic or religious or social group had their own cemetery. We drove back to Ellensburg and dropped Les and Linda off. (We had driven them). Then we went to Dollar Tree where I found the craft supplies I was looking for. We all went to a near by restaurant for dinner . Great Day!!

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