A Thought

I just had a thought about Grandma Hattie...can you imagine her feelings when she left Iowa to come to Seattle with her young family? If you have never been to the midwest, let me tell you that everything in a small town is anchored to the local grain elevator. Your house is so many blocks from the elevator, the market is just south, or west or east of the elevator. You can see the elevator from every house in town. That obelisk dominates the view and anchors you to the prairie.

Well, she let go of her anchor...and that must have been exciting, and frightening. Seattle was evolving from a wild west boom town of the 1800's and into a dynamic city of the new century. There were no grain elevators to dominate the view, only lofty cedars and new iron buildings. The masts of the ships dominated the harbor view and off to the east and the north were volcanoes! Not many of those in Iowa...