Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Jazz Port Townsend - Day 2

July 23, 2007

Liis started her vocal jazz workshop today. I took the rental car, drove around and checked out the area. In Port Townsend I found a silent vigil for peace hosted by the local branch of Women in Black:




Returning to Fort Worden, I captured the following images from the bluff near our room in one of the former base barracks:




Now an inn in the State Park, Alexander's Castle (above) is reputed to be a story of unrequited love. The locals reveal that it was built by Reverend John Alexander for his Scottish bride-to-be in the late 19th century. When he returned to Scotland to bring her back to the United States, he discovered that she had married another man.

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