Walking with Ancestors: EWGS 2024

 This was our first Walking with Ancestors event back in 2009. Shirley Penna-Oaks (holding the "vote" sign) was the coordinator for the event.  Eager members of EWGS staged the same event in 2010 and 2011. Now EWGS is resurrecting the Walking with Ancestors event!

This year the event will be held on Memorial Day (Monday), May 27th, at the Pines Cemetery (south on Pines from Sprague or I-90). Commemorative events and ceremonies all day long are planned and EWGS is proud to be a part. 

Volunteers from EWGS have been working on "their people." Photos were taken of tombstones in the oldest part of the cemetery and handed out at the January meeting. The response has been great! The stories these tombstones will tell, by way of a person portraying the person, their spouse, son/daughter, etc. will be fascinating, EWGS promises. 

These were our 2010 and 2011 group photos:

We hope you'll come to enjoy a Walking with Ancestors event on Memorial Day at the Pines Cemetery with EWGS!!

Walking with Ancestors 2013 The Iron Horse Era in Spokane

This is the group photo.

These are several of the Actors

This is Miriam Robbins one of our team bloggers and a guide in hat with red flowers

Inland Empire Tour bus stopped to tour our group

Special Thanks to Shirley Penna-Oakes (center) our Walking with Ancestors Chairman

Special Thanks to Barbara Brazington (center) our hard working everything

Many Hands Make EWGS Great!

This really great picture was shared with me and I do love it! It is a visual of how I feel about EWGS.

This is our 2011 Walking with Ancestors group photo. This, too, typifies the working-together-in-a-good-cause spirit of EWGS.  

As we fade out of summer and into another scholastic year of learning, I hope you'll right now mark your calendars for all the EWGS meetings, classes and activities. They start in September....... click to our wonderful website for all the details:  www.EWGSI.org.

And thank you all!!!!

EWGS & Memorial Day @ Heritage Funeral Home

Big thanks to Shirley Penna-Oakes and her crew (here are two, Jan Bueckers, and "Chaplain" Mike Chandler) for all the hours of publicity they gave EWGS and Walking with Ancestors over Memorial Day Weekend at the to-do at Heritage Funeral Home. Her display and picture board were impressive. 

EWGS offers great meetings, wonderful classes and seminars and workshops, and volunteer opportunities that foster friendship and networking. Come along next opportunity and see for yourself.

Need a canon??

Do you have a need for your very own personal Parrott Rifle? It weighs 500 pounds, costs $1041.70 (plus shipping) and the rolling cradle is extra. Oh, and you better have a humungous truck to go fetch it. And where can you get such an item? In Post Falls, Idaho! Would you believe?

Hern Iron Works "is the successors to the respected Washington Machinery Foundry and the National Iron Works, established in 1884. Hern Iron Works was constructed in the 1970s on a wholly-owned 30-acre parcel ...... " near Post Falls.This company offers a goodly line of products including different kinds of canons!

You can buy a Revolutionary War Howitzer, an English Swivel Gun, a Coehorn Mortar and a Parrott Rifle (which is really a #1000 canon!), an Ordnance Rifle, and a Carronade.  Who would have thought that such a company is right in our back yard???

F.Y.I.  The Parrott Rifle was developed by Robert Potter, supervisor of the West Point Foundry from 1836-1867. This canon was easy to use, cheap to make and quick to produce...... "the best practical thing that could be got at the time." It was a cast iron canon.

Now who would buy such a thing? Those who re-enact historical times, that's who!

At our recent Walking with Ancestors we were admiring a vintage Civil War canon in Greenwood Cemetery and it was Charles Hansen who tipped me off that you can buy your own right here in our neighborhood. Who would have thought?

2012 Walking With Ancestors

This picture was taken by Jerry Johnson at Greenwood cemetery for the Walking With Ancestors, Thanks Jerry.

2012 Walking with Ancestors

What is really important are the people that participate, especially those that researched their Civil War Veteran and told the story over and over all day. I did not get either group picture but have been promised a copy. Since I do not know the names of several of the people here I will not put names on any of these pictures.

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I only got pictures of the backs of a couple of the guides, but want to thank all of them also.

I also want to thank Shirley Penna-Oakes and Barbara Brazington for all their hard work.

We also had several jets flyover during the talks and at least one actor seemed to attract the airplanes, but John will probably kill me if I tell who attracted the airplanes.

2012 Walking With Ancestors

 This is the EWGS booth still being set up. You can click on the photos to make them larger.

 Right next to the EWGS booth is the NeWGS booth, thanks for coming so far.

 

 Karen Struve a EWGS-NeWGS member was demonstrating how to do grave stone rubbings.

 

 Evergreen Cemetery north of Hillyard on the road to Mead.

 This is how a civil war couple would have dressed and a typical table set up.

 John Ellingson at the SAR booth.

2012 Walking With Ancestors

The 2012 Walking with Ancestors was at Greenwood Cemetery and was a tribute to our Civil War Ancestors.

These were some of the posters and books available for people to read while they were waiting for the next tour group.

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This is the monument shown in the dedication above.