Month: December 2014

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 400 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 7 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…

A little time was spent, recently, tracking down the owner of the ship that wrecked in 1850 along the Oregon coast and tracing the history of the ship. First, the owner was H.D. Gardiner; the ship was the barque Bostonian. This post deals with details (see H.D. Gardiner post) that have been collected. There is…

Today, we published Gardner’s Beacon, Vol. IV, No. 4. Per usual, we have the page at the TGS, Inc. site with a PDF file; too, there is a blog post summarizes the contents. — One thing that we are researching deals with the namesake of Gardiner, OR. The boat was owned by Henry Dearborn Gardiner….