fort casey: It is all good theatre----or not. What say you Thomas Parker? - 07/30/10 02:31 AM
     I have always been interested in all the stages a structure can go though over its life span----often vastly different or unimagined from its original use.     Like a lighthouse turned into a bed and breakfast or a school turned into condominiums.     Wars are acted out on giant world-wide stages with much drama and acting much like might be symbolically acted out in a play on a smaller stage of a local theater.     The symbolism and irony of seeing an old World War II gun emplacement at Fort Casey on Whidbey Island, Washington turned into a stage was another example of … (13 comments)

fort casey: The ocean is a locket full of secrets! - 07/29/10 01:48 AM
     Who hasn’t wandered along a beach to see what the tides have washed ashore? 
     It can be fun to wonder what the things we find on the beach are, and how the stuff got to be there.  Some are barely recognizable pieces of glass, or objects made of metal and wood, while other things are all too recognizable pieces of junk.  Some of the most common things found are cigarette lighters, pop bottles and tampon dispensers.  Since approximately 7 million tons of junk gets tossed into the oceans every year it is no wonder that lots of it … (31 comments)

fort casey: Playing Doctor at Fort Casey, Whidbey Island, WA. - 08/09/09 03:22 AM
     One of the spin-offs from having an ARMY is that we learn how to build things better.  There are army manuals that can be found for just about anything you might want to construct (or maintain)---from building bridges to building staircases.
     When I first started building and I needed to find out the best way to do something I would look to these manuals for guidance, since in those days codes were marginal or non-existent and they did not tell you “HOW” to do something anyway. 
      One of my favorite manuals was about Concrete.  This manual … (19 comments)

 
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