Faro Field

This morning we went up to Faro Field to help take the sign down, they had already started when we got there but they were not too far along.

There is an event here each year with a different theme so a new sign will go up in the spring with a picture representing the year 1929.

The sign is down, on the trailer and ready to be hauled to the barn for disassembly.

This is Fletcher the owner of the property, he is a very pleasant person.

After the sign was disassembled we went over the covered bridge to the flying field.

I put in a flight and then watched Marc test fly a Gee Bee he got at a swap meet for $300.  It flew great and he decided it was a keeper.

I flew one more flight and loaded up as the wind came up and it was getting cold.  Sonny was getting ready to fly so we watched him for a little while before leaving.

This is the view as we came up to the covered bridge from the flying field side, it sure makes it a special place to fly.

The house is kept just like it was in 1933, it was used this summer for the filming of some scenes for the movie "Maysville".  Fletcher took Vera and I for a tour of the inside.

It had the same type of stove that Vera grew up with in Randle.

The radio still worked, Fletcher turned it on and tuned in a station playing forties songs.  There was a piano in the same room and Vera asked him if he played.  He said yes, he was a music major in college.  We found out later he is a concert pianist and has an orchestra.  It was a very enjoyable tour.  We stopped at Betty's for fish and chips then went down by the Cowlitz river in Toledo to eat.