Greetings, one and all! What a day! I get to combine two favorite pastimes: Family history and visiting Costco. I found a terrific book at Costco today called "Kinsey Photographer" about Darius Kinsey, his family, and his work. The photos are outstanding and if you had relatives in the timber business in the late 1800's and/or earlier 1900's you should at least give this a look on your next Costco visit (find a friend to take you if you don't have a card). The book is only $18.99. It is oversize, about 13" tall and 10 1/2" wide. 319 pages. No index. The photos are beautifully reproduced. Family history of the Kinseys and stories from people who were acquainted with him. Lots of his pictures. Some old ads. This is a single volume edition of what apparently was originally two volumes (and the price inside says "Deluxe edition originally published at $150.00" but this edition is plenty deluxe for me). My great-grandfather and my grandfather and some of his brothers built railroad trestles for timber operations. That's what (I believe) moved them from Wisconsin to Washington. On Tuesday, May 27, 1930, my grandpa was setting explosives for bridge work at Sauk Camp near Darrington. The Arlington Times reported the incident two days later. Here's a bit of it: "The explosion blinded Wans and lacerated his face severely. . . "Wans' companions brought him to Darrington for emergency first aid treatment. A hurry up call was sent to Everett and the Everett ambulance company brought the injured man to the General Hospital at Everett, where the sight of one of his eyes was pronounced destroyed. An operation was performed Wednesday in an effort to save the sight of the remaining optic." There were a couple of other follow-ups in the papers. Grandpa did lose both of his eyeballs and forever greeted us grandkids by tapping on our shoulders with his hand telling us how big we were and then, every time, he would move his hand over to where our heads were and, tapping his way up the side of our heads to the top, with great (mock) surprise exclaim on how quickly we were growing! Joyce Wans Mukilteo WA USA