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(Poster cant be forwarded using this email program. If you want i can get for you next week.)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Cameron Johnson" <<a href="mailto:CJohnson@ci.everett.wa.us">CJohnson@ci.everett.wa.us</a>><br>Date: Aug 20, 2012 12:51 PM<br>Subject: Washington's Mysterious Seacoast Forts<br>
To: "Cameron Johnson" <<a href="mailto:CJohnson@ci.everett.wa.us">CJohnson@ci.everett.wa.us</a>><br><br type="attribution">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#984806">I thought your members might be interested in this event at Everett Public Library at 2pm Sunday Sept. 16. I’m attaching a poster as well, in case you’d like to post it or pass it on.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A hundred years ago, seacoast forts like Flagler, Casey, and Worden were the sentinels of Puget Sound. Built with acres of concrete, bristling with coastal defense guns, they housed hundreds of soldiers and artillerymen. But what were they
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bill Woodward, Professor of American History at Seattle Pacific University, discusses “Those Mysterious Seacoast Forts,” at 2pm Sunday September 16 at the Everett Public Library Auditorium, 2702 Hoyt in Everett.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Washington’s seacoast forts are state parks now, a playground for dogs and kids, but a hundred years ago they were a defense network. The first was built after the Civil War and guarded the Columbia River, but within a generation they covered
all approaches to Puget Sound. What were the threats they meant to deter, were those threats real, and what effect, if any, does any of this have to do with us today?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Woodward says the fears that gave rise to these forts still echo today, and help explain both how Americans see the world and how we rely on new technologies to “guarantee” security.
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<p class="MsoNormal">This event is free. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For further information, please call <a href="tel:425-257-8000" value="+14252578000" target="_blank">425-257-8000</a>.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#984806">Cameron A. Johnson<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#984806">Programs Coordinator<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#984806">Everett Public Library<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#984806">2702 Hoyt Avenue<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#984806">Everett, WA 98201<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#984806"><a href="tel:425-257-7640" value="+14252577640" target="_blank">425-257-7640</a> (tel)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#984806"><a href="tel:425-257-8016" value="+14252578016" target="_blank">425-257-8016</a> (fax)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#984806">As little as possible,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#984806">As much as necessary.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#984806"> —R. Daneel Olivaw<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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