BOTHELL, Wash. — Communication from the great beyond has been delivered to a family in Bothell. It comes in the form of a message in a bottle, but it didn’t wash ashore. It was deeply rooted in the woods of the Pacific Northwest.
Tom Larsen has no memories of his grandfather, only keepsakes. Carl Larsen died the year Tom was born.
Too old to enlist in World War II, in 1943 Carl Larsen volunteered to help build the Alcan Highway, a military supply line between Canada and Alaska. That’s about all anybody knew, and years later Tom discovered there was one more mystery hanging out there…