Chehalis Seventh Day Adventist Church Chehalis Washington Modern City Maps The Moonshiners Blueprint Patent Drawing

The Moonshiners Blueprint Patent Drawing of Forbidden Spirits comes from an era when the distiller was half-engineer

Captain Wilkes 1862 — a portrait of the Union officer whose seizure of Confederate envoys from the British mail packet Trent the previous November had nearly dragged Lincoln's beleaguered republic into a second war

Hood Canal Washington arrives in the long blue crook of saltwater bending beneath the Olympics — oyster beds glistening at low tide

all set against the Wasatch Range rising abruptly from the valley floor like a curtain pulled back on the desert

and the firmament still answered to the pen

Chehalis Seventh Day Adventist Church Chehalis Washington Modern City Maps The Moonshiners Blueprint Patent DrawingChehalis Seventh Day Adventist Church Chehalis Washington arrives in clapboard and quiet devotion a modest steepled sanctuary standing among the elm shaded streets of a Lewis County timber town, its windows catching the soft gray light of the Cascade foothills. A house of Sabbath worship cataloged in real photo postcards from the rail and rain era. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s)