This is the restaurant where we had brunch yesterday.  It has a Pacific Northwest theme.  (Go figure!)



I grew up in New Jersey.  Then I moved to western New York.  There are forts in both areas.  And those forts are remnants of the Revolutionary War.  But here?  This is all relatively "new country."  Lewis and Clark didn't even set out on their expedition until 1804.  (I realize that doesn't sound recent to most people, but I'm old.  And beyond that, I've spent a lot of time researching my New Jersey ancestors as far back as the mid-1600s.)

When I moved to this area, I saw that there was a fort nearby, Fort Vancouver,  and I just assumed that it was a fort left over from the Revolution.  Ooooops!  Nope...it was owned by the Hudson's Bay Company.  It was a commercial fort!  Every day I'm confronted by the fact that a lot of what I read in history books really happened!  (It just didn't happen anywhere near where I lived.)

We live and learn.