Archive For May 26, 2016

Fort Casey Opens Up

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Seattle Pacific University’s Camp Casey Conference Center is opening to the public June 17 from 12 – 4 when historians will lead guided tours of what was once Washington’s fourth largest military base. While much of Whidbey Island’s Fort Casey is still open to the public as a state park, including the decommissioned gun batteries,…

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The Finest Hours (Blu-ray)

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The Finest Hours (Blu-ray)

The Finest Hours is a dramatization of a real event chronicles in the book The Finest Hours: he True Story Of The U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue. The events of the book, which I haven’t read, chronicle the 1952 Coast Guard rescue of the tanker SS Pendleton during a massive storm. I can’t vouch…

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