Yakima Lions Reverend Fred Hutchinson and Dr. Ruth Bishop are relative newcomers to District 19F but they are making a great impact on the area with their Olde Yakima Letterpress Museum in Union Gap. Fred started hand setting type on a family business printing press in 1953. He was six years old. In their very active retirement Fred and Ruth are bringing his old craft and the history that accompanies it to life.
I like Fred. He was the first Lion to respond to a request
to advertise in our District Conference Program. He and Ruth also got a table
in the lobby of the Marcus Whitman Hotel to tout the upcoming visit to Yakima
by their friend Benjamin Franklin! The Ben Franklin!! Ben turned 311 this past January. It does not surprise me that this great American
scientist has flourished so long in the heart and soul of America.
I grew up on the East Coast with a fondness for our country’s First American Founding Father, patriot, writer, diplomat, inventor and printer all wrapped up into one amazing man. I have visited his post office twice, his museum once, gloried in his writings and have stood twice in Independence Hall in Philadelphia where he and Tom and a bunch of his friends started this country.
I grew up on the East Coast with a fondness for our country’s First American Founding Father, patriot, writer, diplomat, inventor and printer all wrapped up into one amazing man. I have visited his post office twice, his museum once, gloried in his writings and have stood twice in Independence Hall in Philadelphia where he and Tom and a bunch of his friends started this country.
I am happy to invite you all on their behalf to Ben Franklin Live! at the Yakima Convention Center, 10 North 8th Street in Yakima at 6:30 PM on Friday May 12th. It's just $12 at the door.
See
Ben Franklin Live! with the famous and well-traveled Christopher
Lowell, an internationally recognized actor/historian.
I hope my front row seat is still waiting for me.
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