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| Tree Name Card |
My
great-grandmother joined my great-grandfather when he had spent nine years in Tacoma,
she traveled with their two daughters, Amanda and Marie, to arrive in August,
1896. Probably Lowell School was the
early outreach, but soon First Lutheran Church must have become a destination
too. Like my experience, they went to
school, they came straight home. I have rediscovered that there are more Lombardy Poplars at the park, planted in 1895.
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| Four Poplar Trees |
How tall
would a Lombardy Poplar Tree at Wright Park have been if my grandmother and her
sister wanted to walk from the church at 8th and “I” through the
park to take the streetcar the rest of the way downhill to Old Tacoma? The Lombardy Poplars might have been 28 years
old in 1923, if my mother or her brothers wanted to walk from the church, still at
8th and “I”, through the park to take the streetcar the rest of the
way downhill to Old Tacoma. In 1924,
when the Lombardy Poplars were 29 years old, my uncle Ray began Confirmation
Class. Confirmation Class was a one-year
experience then, compared to the two-year experience of the 1960s, when I was
confirmed at First Lutheran Church. The very
old flowering cherry tree near the bus stop may be the younger flowering cherry
tree there when I waited for the bus to ride back to the Proctor Neighborhood. We went to church, we came straight home.
Their
grandfather often drove them to school, and probably to Sunday School in his
Chrysler. They also often walked to
school, however, up the steep hill from Old Town. 
Their
grandfather often drove them to school, and probably to Sunday School in his
Chrysler. They also often walked to
school, however, up the steep hill from Old Town. 
