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Today we commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The amphibious assault part of the invasion was code named Operation Neptune. Recently, we have fielded a number of questions about World War 2 and the roles that local folks played in that conflict.  The Conway Public Library’s Henney History Room supports research on both an international and family scale. For example, I was able to discover that my uncle Warren was involved in the development of the amphibious vehicles used on D-Day. He was a mechanic and worked for Donald Roebling, the great grandson of fabled bridge engineer John Augustus Roebling, who designed the Brooklyn Bridge. Donald Roebling moved to Clearwater, Florida in 1929. His arrived about six months after the Great Lake Okeechobee Hurricane of September 16, l928, which swept across Lake Okeechobee, inundating newly developed tracts, killing 1,836 a residents and causing $25 million in damages.  Many of the storm’s victims expired after the hurricane be...

a follow up from previous blogs  list here  focus on  how to work ash (do this as part 3)   locate and id ash trees  what belknap says  pics overall shape ash tree it helps me identify if I think of a pattern  braided like a woven basket?  pic of the straw basket I have  also think of  expanded sheet metal lath used for plaster work.  lets look at splints seen baskets in the exhibit, from the collection of the Conway Historical Society x x to make baskets ash logs are pounded  x pound steadily along the log to loosen the growth rings, which will separate into nice even layers called splints. These layers can be split again to get the thickness desired for a particular size and type of basket. The basket maker then needs to get the strips the correct width for the basket. pounding other trees such as pine, birch, maple does not yield the same result.  see other blogs for details on those trees.  x x x the nature o...

This resolute gall of this bug astounds me ...  ... beyond words! ,,, and that is an interesting good thing.  ,,, and that is a good thing. In fact this bug is connected to some of the most important words ever written.  insert pic declaration of independence  Do you know how this bug is connected to some of the most important words ever written?  we will get to that  but let's start with a c1765 Conway lot map on display at the cpl  There are clues to this riddle, puzzle, mystery on our, in our circa 1765 Conway lot map on display at the cpl  x x the ink  x x x x follow up previous blog on bugs and words when in the course of human events ... declaration of independence quill pen tool of ... literally  oak gall some of this sound familiar, film National Treasure .  x x x colony to country free outreach  variety of tools  axes, shovels, muskets, ..  quill pen  z fFMI on this free outreach program see this link co...