by Douglas Granum | May 3, 2022 | GigHarbor
Avalon, constructed at Skansie Ship Building Company in 1929, is one of the most recognizable boats designed and built in the South Sound. In 2015, after many decades of commercial fishing, Avalon sank in Hood Canal. Declared a derelict vessel, she was...
by Douglas Granum | May 3, 2022 | GigHarbor
Gig Harbor is a city in Pierce County located on a picturesque Puget Sound bay — also called Gig Harbor — across Tacoma Narrows from Tacoma. For centuries, the Twa-Wal-Kut band of the Puyallup Tribe had a longhouse and permanent camp at the head of the...
by Douglas Granum | Feb 22, 2022 | History
For lack of personal experience, along with profound hate and stupidity few can imagine today what great significance was bestowed on relics and objects, that are now vital voices and connections with the past. In the case of the “Fireman’s Park Totem’, this important...
by Douglas Granum | Feb 4, 2022 | Marine Raiders / Navajo Code Talkers
This was written in conjunction with the Marine Raiders and Code Talkers Monument project. All of my life I have been involved with rifles and pistols. Like most everything in my life, I taught myself. I taught myself to row and understand the sea, to hunt and finally...
by Douglas Granum | Feb 2, 2022 | Marine Raiders / Navajo Code Talkers
This article was published in The Raider Patch, Issue Q1 2020 (Part 1) and Q2 2020 (Part 2) This was written in conjunction with the Marine Raiders and Code Talkers Monument project. About four years ago a well-dressed older Two Star General came up to me at a party...
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