Historical Tour for 3

Twas just a Tuesday like any other Tuesday, except three gals decided to do something they had been meaning to do--forever! Tour the East Benton County Historical Museum. After all, they had visited the Franklin County museum last year; it seemed only fair to wander about the other.

"Vine Hoe" said the sign next to a vintage farm implement in the outside display. Seemed totally appropriate for BECKY, the Pasco native, to demonstrate as she was raised on a grape vineyard. Especially fun to have her mom RUTH along to explain the reason for the vintage "Church's" label on the glass jar of grape juice marketed by Welch's "back in the day" when the Kennewick plant was operating. (Why? For a time, local consumers apparently thought the original Church producer's juice to be better than the new owner's.)

No particular reason for posing next to the Finley school bell. Sometimes, if something is there,

it's just a photo opp.

Inside, we had to limit

our photos to one only--at the entry.

Three generations of women who like to revisit the past....to fully appreciate the present. If you need that particular lesson, visit the museum's dentist's office display, or the laundry room, or the telephone switchboard!

P.S. Lest you think we went only to the museum, never fear, we *had* to do lunch, of course, first--at Zinful, in downtown Kennewick, where Becky and Doris split a crab panini, Judith slurped a cuppa potato soup. In keeping with our Touring 3, we all smacked our lips over raspberry sorbet.

On the way to our parked cars, who can resist a quick walkabout the Roxy Antiques mall? In the bookseller's vendor corner, there, on full display were.....drum roll....antique books that Ruth and Becky had decided it was time to pass along to others. The top one inscribed by Becky's namesake relative, Rebecca Ellen Conner--oh, so, poignant a moment!