Friday, March 6, 2009

After 111 years, Seattle schooner to be dismantled

"The short trip across Seattle's Lake Union on Wednesday also marked the end of a battle by ship enthusiasts to save the lumber schooner, which was listed as a national historic site in 1970.

'I call it, 'death with dignity,'' Kay Bullitt, an 84-year-old civic activist who had come to the dock to say goodbye to the ship she tried to save, told The Seattle Times."

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