Telephone Travels and Insulator Adventures
We left our island
home and started the trip with a ferry ride up the Inside Passage through
Southeast Alaska. This is a archipelago that follows the coastline
from the town of Ketchikan north to Skagway.
Our first stop was the
home of another insulator collector, Dale Rose. He gave us a ride
through downtown Petersburg, to the beautiful home that he and his wife
Carolyn share. Insulators where in evidence from the start, with
many common CD’s being used in his garden. They made a nice balance
to the glass floats scattered here and there in the well-tended beds.
Dale showed us the
different arrangements of CD’s used in and around the house. He also
had the set of McDougald reference books that I had not yet purchased.
It was nice to be able to preview those, since I was new to insulator collecting.
Phones had been a part of my life for a while. I hadn’t paid much
attention to insulators until I was led to http://www.insulators.com
from Chuck Eby’s
Telephone History website.
My husband took
special note of a 3-step arrangement made of wood that sat on top of the
entertainment center in their livingroom. Little white Christmas
lights poked up through holes drilled in the base of a wooden three-stair
arrangement. When a glass insulator was placed on the stair over
the light it made quite a display! It must be something to sit and
contemplate on the long dark winter nights. They were generous hosts
and we greatly enjoyed our visit.
Next, onto Skagway,
Alaska.
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