Following are some photos of the destruction (demolition sounds too harsh) of the historical Wes Smith house, beginning to end.
While photographing over time, I was fortunate enough to meet Dave Smith, Wes Smith’s son. We had a great conversation. We feel that the conversation was more of a private meeting, so that said, we will not go into details of the why’s and who’s of reasons for the house being torn down. We just feel it was a confidential discussion and would feel it’s a breech of trust to post the information.
It is a sad day indeed and the full size photos have already been transferred to the Index Historical Society’s hands.
The Town of Index Annual Cookie Exchange took place yesterday at 2:00pm. I did not have the “umph” or get up and go (my get up and go, got up and went) to attend. It was my wife’s assignment to snap a few real quick photos.
Below are snapshots from the Cookie Exchange. Thanks to everybody for sharing with me, the cookie monster (I’ve heard David Meier does a good job eating cookies too).
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From the Everett Herald. Kind of reminds me of the old Art Linkletter show, Kids Say the Darndest Things. Enjoy.
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It was a long day for us but we enjoyed our selves as did many hundreds of folks at the Arts Festival. Yvonne pulled it off once again. Many thanks Yvonne for working so hard all year long on this project.
Furthermore, the idiot that I am, I did not make it through the whole grounds of the festival and missed plenty of photo opportunities. There are some vendors and wares to view and a couple of musicians, but I blew it really. We could not stay until closing as happened last year. We had guests from out of town (family) and family comes first.
The photos we did shoot, we sincerely hope you enjoy and accept our apologies if you will.
Once again, Chris C. has emailed us (previous email http://wp.me/p9u6l-ru) but he attached photos this time.
Thank you Chris. GREAT PHOTOS we might add. The IHS will love these.
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My grandparents moved to Nebraska, where they both passed on. I have been back to Index a few times, but it is not the same without them there.
The house that they lived in still is there, as far as I know. It was originally a Ranger station before my grandparents lived there. I was last there shortly before the Tavern closed for good. It was a landmark for us.
I have attached a couple of pictures. One is my grandmother in front of their Dodge car in the driveway. It would sit just off the road. The second is my grandparents and my gramma’s sister in law on the front steps of the house they lived in there in Index.
Eventually the walkway was replaced with a covered deck, much to the delight of my grandfather who spent many an hour sitting in his chair on the deck admiring his flowers. The deer used to come up at night and eat his white roses, used to irritate him to no end.
Thank you for letting me share. Maybe i will get back up there sometime again.
Chris
The cedar log arrived as planned, at 10am this morning, transported by Mike Eddy (and he was on time!!).
Master wood carver Ralph Bennett, showed up also adding a lot of flare to the morning.
Enjoy the photos:
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As usual, we had a great time photographing the parade. We can’t tell who had a better time. The children or the adults? It’s great to get out and mingle with the town folk. Following are some snapshots taken about 2 hours ago.
We hope you enjoy them.
Before we lose this unique piece of history from The Town of Index, we thought we’d share some quick snapshots we took moments ago. As most know, the Wes Smith House is scheduled to be torn down in the very near future.
There was no fill light used as this was a quickie if you will. Stay tuned as we will shot a few more shots of this historical house as it’s in the process of disappearing.
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Hey all!!
We normally hang around until 10-11 pm at the Arts Festival but this year was different. We had guests from out of town, Dottie had a booth and we were just plain busy and it rained quite a bit, albeit not too serious until the evening.
Since we don’t have a waterproof casing for the digital camera, we shot photos quite early in the morning till’ very early afternoon and called it quits. That being said, here are 39 quick shots we took while roaming the festivities during the morning and afternoon. Luckily this year, we were able to get the Mayor during the opening ceremonies. We normally miss this part of the festival as we are setting up our self.
Thanks to all the folks that dropped by to say HI, Mark R., Barb T. and MANY others.
The Town of Index Independence Day Parade went without a hitch. It was a lot of fun socializing with friends and folks that you only get a chance to see two to three times a year.
We could not stay for the Pot Luck Lunch that was being held at Doolittle Park, but word has it that people had a real blast.
We shot about 67+ photos and posted a small selection of 32 to the blog. We hope you enjoy the photos.
Ed & Dottie
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