Showing posts with label bicentennial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bicentennial. Show all posts
Saturday, February 16, 2019
American Legion, The 1960s and 1970s: POWs, National Emergency Fund, Freedom Bell
1960s
SEPTEMBER 1, 1966-- The Legion voices concern over POWs in Vietnam and urges full accounting. That has now grown to include all wars.
AUGUST 24, 1969-- The Legion's National Executive Board establishes the National Emergency Fund as a result of Hurricane Camille. (Up to $3,000 for each member in a disaster.)
1970s
MAY 1, 1972-- Legion implements a Halloween safety program for children which remains the only national program in the country.
APRIL 1, 1975-- The Legion-sponsored Freedom Bell goes on the Freedom Train on its tour of the country for the U.S. Bicentennial.
I will continue with these important dates in the May newsletter, on our second 100th anniversary commemoration for the St. Louis caucus.
Saturday, August 19, 2017
200 Years Later, the Erie Canal-- Part 2: 35 Locks To Your Destination
Recreational boats traveling the full length of the Erie Canal are lifted or lowered through 35 elevation locks and can dock at towns built alongside the canal.
The labor intensive construction (remember this is before the machine age) was completed in 1825 and the canal enabled settlers to sail west while grain and agricultural products moved east. The boats were slender, shallow-draft wooden vessels. It transformed New York City into America's largest port and turned outposts like Cleveland and Chicago into mercantile hubs.
Construction of the Erie Canal was essentially a learn-as-you-go engineering technology and advances made on this helped the later (and bigger) Suez and Panama canals.
You can drive alongside much of the 338-mile canal and the state of New York has issued driving and bicycling maps and brochures for the Erie Canal's bicentennial. Instead of taking the 4 1/2 hour zip along the I-90 tollway, you can enjoy a leisurely trip along the old canal.
And Sing "Low Bridge, Everybody Down, Cause We're Coming to a Town." --Cooter
The labor intensive construction (remember this is before the machine age) was completed in 1825 and the canal enabled settlers to sail west while grain and agricultural products moved east. The boats were slender, shallow-draft wooden vessels. It transformed New York City into America's largest port and turned outposts like Cleveland and Chicago into mercantile hubs.
Construction of the Erie Canal was essentially a learn-as-you-go engineering technology and advances made on this helped the later (and bigger) Suez and Panama canals.
You can drive alongside much of the 338-mile canal and the state of New York has issued driving and bicycling maps and brochures for the Erie Canal's bicentennial. Instead of taking the 4 1/2 hour zip along the I-90 tollway, you can enjoy a leisurely trip along the old canal.
And Sing "Low Bridge, Everybody Down, Cause We're Coming to a Town." --Cooter
Monday, June 18, 2012
It Was 200 Years Ago Today
Suffice to mention that this date in 1812, the United States declared war on Britain, starting what is known as the War of 1812.
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