Local Adventures

Local Adventures: The FallOut Shelters Of Port Townsend (The Business District)

The boys and I are working on a new project this year for our homeschooling. It all started with a $1 donation for a blue booklet that I found last spring at a museum in Fort Worden State Park, in Port Townsend, Wa. This stained, but never opened up, Civil Defense booklet still had the… Continue reading Local Adventures: The FallOut Shelters Of Port Townsend (The Business District)

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The Fallout Shelters of The Mortar Pits

Old decommissioned forts are full of history. Perfect for learning about the less than stellar parts of American history, when the great lie of fallout shelters was pressed onto citizens by The Civil Defense - that they would save you because nuclear war was going to be a common event. Or something. The National Park… Continue reading The Fallout Shelters of The Mortar Pits