2020 Cast of Characters

The Museum

• built by Josiah Walker, logging baron who constructed the building as his private home 150 years ago then moved to Seattle
• has served as:
  • jail
  • house of worship
  • bordello during prohibition
• rooms, floors, and wings added over time to make exterior resemble a gothic wedding cake, a patchwork of grey stone and red brick, with turrets, porticos, and useless little Juliet balconies tacked on randomly
• inside – rabbit warren of oddly shaped rooms, winding corridors, and staircases, some imposing and some no better than ships ladders.
• impossible to heat or clean effectively
• picture gallery with long-dead town worthies
• stuffed Great Auk in the natural history diorama on the second floor
• Victorian dolls in display cases
• hairline crack in the dome over the grand staircase
• clock tower at the top, iron spiral staircase leading to trap door beneath clock’s inner workings
• four floors

Angela Marie Smithfield

• Ted Davis’ mom

Antonia (“Toni”) Masters

• realtor
• tailored pants suits with stiletto heels
• lipstick always matches nail color
• blonde
• husband – Pete

Andrew Stein

• newest board member
• planning consultant
• moved to down from East Coast (Boston or Philadelphia)
• good looking, average height and build, thin face with a hawkish nose, fashionably-framed glasses, dark hair cut close
• mid-thirties

Archibald McNair

• board president
• professor emeritus of history at the university
• 84 years old

Carmen

• mistress to Jeff
• cousin of Andrew

Catherine Walker

• great, great granddauther to Josiah and Lydida Walker
• board secretary
• long drive home from museum, 30 minutes, surrounded by woodland
• didn’t have a happy childhood
• museum docent
• distant relative of Josiah Walker
• shy, hates talking in public
• drives a Prius
• lives with her mother
• has at least two cats
• father killed in a car crash before he could explain (chapter 6)

Charles

• the manatee

Chase Morgan

• Ted Davis’ best friend in childhood

Dorothy

• Jeff Hansen’s wife

Dr. Ruth Bader

• town’s resident sage
• counselor, author, former legislator, and wicked bridge player
• seventy something, looks fiftyish

Emma

• Achibald McNair’s wife

Jasmine

• Ted’s mom’s astrologer

Jefferson (“Jeff”) Hansen

• banker
• lied about wife being sick
• has a mistress – Carmen
• has a key to Carmen’s apartment
• wife – Dorothy

Josiah Disparais Walker

• Catherine’s great, great grandfather
• logging baron who constructed the building as his private home 150 years ago then moved to Seattle
• distant relative of Catherine Walker
• mutton chops
• Civil War Union vet from Pennsylvania
• made his money in the booming logging industry
• married to Lydia Walker

Lindsay DeMan

• young female museum director
• hasn’t been in a relationship for a while

Lydia Walker

• wife of Josiah

Margaret

• the great auk

Marilyn

• Cathrine’s mom

Mr. Van

• museum education curator (when Catherine was young)
• Mr. V for short

Paul Hanson

• no relation to Jeff Hansen
• developer looking for a building with character
• wants to create a high-end community with condos, galleries and a café

Pete Masters

• husband of Antonia (“Toni”) Masters
• drives a Porsche
• lonely and bored
• secretly wants to be a writer and write western romance novels set in Utah during the Nixon era

Sunburst Fawn-Flower

• barista at Subdued Brews Coffee and Pub
• lavender dread locks
• three silver rings in her lower lip
• kind and open, knows all the regulars by name
• writer working toward and MFA
• on her eighth draft of sci-fi romance set under the sea, set in the City of Atlantis

Ted Davis (v. the world)

• full name: Theodore Chandler Davis III
• birthday March 31, 1990
• only child of Angela Marie Smithfield and T.C. Davis, Jr.
• uses profanity
• wears Carhartts and a motorcycle jacket
• bushy beard and fingernails rimmed in black
• runs for office, loses
• degree in environmental policy
• rides a bicycle

T.C. Davis, Jr

• Ted Davis’ dad