Haven't been to Washington since dads last trip

Toward the end of my fathers life my sister, father, husband and I went to Alexandra Virginia . Dad, Randolph Wortman, could give us addresses of places things happened in he's life but he couldn't remember what happened their . Dad came back every day for a nap at the hotel but the minute that was over where are we going next the temperatures were up around 100 so we didn't go to Washington .
I came up with the idea of taking a boat trip we found a air conditioned boat that served meals and went up and down the Potomac river .
They served a brunch and it took 3 hours dad loved looking out the windows on the boat seeing a lot of sites he use to guard as a young man .
When dad was young you couldn't even vote if you lived in Washington D.C. to be a police officer he had to have recommendation of people from he's home district house and senate plus he had to pass a test and be able to shoot a gun growing up on a farm helped out their dad was second in he's class in marksmanship.
Dad meet mom, Ethel Stephens, in Washington her parents and grandparents were dead and she was living with a aunt Anna and Uncle Eddie .
Dad loved seeing Aunt Katherine my mothers bast friend from her childhood and her sister Dolly .
They lived in a house their grandfather had made . Their parents had lived their years ago to.
I need to go back to Washington ride the subway stay in a hotel or something my uncle no longer lives their .
He has moved to a small town in Virginia .

I love Washington D. C. I have never been their in the spring

I still have some family around Washington D.C.

As my relatives have grown older they have left Washington D. C. because it is less expensive to live in small town a ways away from Washington . They also didn't like the crime in Washington D. C.
I have one uncle still a live he was a volunteer fire fighter talk about doing good and helping out your neighbors he has done all of that when he was young and healthy .
I haven't been to Washington D. C. in years I did see the Vietnam memorial last time I was their it was new then I have never visited Ford's theater where Lincoln got shot . I would love to visit the British Embassy my dad worked their as a young man fresh into Washington as a cook.
They have added a world war 2 musuem which I would love to see .Our country won't belong to us if we hadn't won the second world war . We have had brave men and women defending our country sense it became our country.

Jefferson Memorial

Thomas Jefferson was one of the three presidents of the United States that Benjamin Wortman got land grants from the other Two were John Quincy Adams and Thomas Jefferson when they came into Ohio in 1811 . My mother's family may have fought my fathers family in the civil war . With one being from the north the other from the south

The Capitol Buiilding

Washington D. C. is such a wonderful town the dolls ran off for a visit if you run into them while you are in Washington till them to have a good time and be sure to drive home safely . We have had a lot of snow back in Ohio . I have been busy working on their website and I am sure they well like to read some of my changes when they return . I am even honoring the cowboys up on it . The cowboys and Indians did a lot to make our country great and their good has lived years after they have died .

snow flies in Ohio

We have had a really awful time with snow back here in Ohio thought I would show you who I get to shovel my snow . I recreated this doll because I have a great belief that dolls should look like us we are tall ,thin, short, fat, male ,female, young ,old ,black, white and oriental . Oh my poor achimg back if you like this artwork visit my website http://www.dollslikeus.com I love dolls fortunatly we are having a short warming spell in Ohio right now .

This was my mothers father Richard Stephens He died young saving two other people from drowning . This picture is a gift from God when my mother was dying someone in New England named Woodruff who had this picture returned it to my Uncle Eddy who raised my mom after her parents and grandparents died uncle eddy was dying at the time two . This picture was in my great grandmother house and dissappeared after she died my mom got to see this picture before she died . My mom use to talk about how much her parents loved one another my grandparents were first cousins . They loved one another their whole lives she didn't take her kids after he died she elected to give her children to her in laws to raise they were also her aunt and uncle mom said her grandmother were sisters .

Grandpa Stephens was a carpenter and so was he's dad to girls were drowning he went into the water to save them they both jumped on he's back he went under hit he's head on a rock they lived he dies . Grandpa recieved the carneige hero medal for he's life .