Joan and all the others: This site about the Columbia Slough and Vanport reminded me that I have been "in" the Columbia Slough. In 1957 I was a senior in high school and work in the TV shop of Harold Ellsworth. His shop was on NE Broadway just a few blocks from my school (US Grant Hi). Harold built a cartop boat, and I went with him for the maiden voyage. Dear Harold made two serious mistakes when he made that boat. The controls for throttle and stearing were backwards! We put the boat in the water and pushed off. He started the engine..... We went about 10 feet before the boat turned over and dumped us in the water. This happened VERY fast. The only thing we lost was the bag of hamburgers that was to be our lunch out on the Columbia River. I never again went "swimming" with Harold. Cecil mailto:cchouk@cox.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "crystalwoman" <crystalwoman@montana.com> To: <OREGON-TRAIL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 4:36 PM Subject: the Vanport site was excellent > jim: > > Thank you thank you so much for aiding me in getting more history on where > my mother lived and worked during WW11 while welding on the ships there in > the shipyards..... > > The site you sent me to is excellent: > http://ccrh.org/comm/slough/vpconstruc.htm > > Happy Trails, Joan > > Also, visit my 4 personal home pages on spirituality and genealogy: > http://www.geocities.com/crystalwoman_2000/roots.html > crystalwoman@montana.com > >