Cottrell Family Crafts Turn Basement into Hobby Workshop
In Newhall and Vinton area, Cottrell and wife Berneice transform a basement into a bustling hobby workshop. They craft horse pulled wagons and buggies from wood using precast horses, brass accents, and foil from a casket, selling at Cedar Rapids Dubuque Tulsa fairs. Their living room stirs with a pool table and a lathe, while their son Bruce ships exotic woods from Tulsa and their daughter Donna assists with sewing and crafts.
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Cottrells
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Iowa
Cottrell
Kirkwood Community College
Tiny Circus Recreates Parke Life’s Work in Attic
Clyde W. Parke, 94, spent seven years and 60 000 hours carving Circus Minimus a one inch to one foot scale. The five ring show runs on a half horsepower motor inside a 25 by 12 1/3 foot pink palace display at the Memphis museum. Parke stopped carving after a stroke two years ago but kept the fragile exhibit in his attic until 1970 and now hopes it can be seen by others.
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Memphis, Tenn
Clyde W. Parke
Parke
Pink Palace Museum
Memphis
Rent a Dog for Greenland Trip by SAS
SAS launches Rent a Dog service for 53 dollars a day offering a husky team sled and native driver with food drink and three star tent lodging for a 3.5 day coastal journey from Sondre Stromfjord to Holsteinsborg. Return helicopter ride costs 70 dollars.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
UPI
SAS
Greenland
Sondre Stromfjord
Holsteinsborg
Nine heritage trails mark ninth centenary of Tower of London
The British Tourist Authority unveils a theme for the next tourist season tied to the ninth centenary of the Tower of London. It plans nine heritage trails guiding visitors from the Welsh marshes to the Scottish border to explore Britain's Norman heritage.
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London
UPI
Hastings
British Tourist Authority
Tower of London
Tourist Board
Britain
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Coralville
Iowa River Power Co
Sun
Shop AT Home Custom Service
Younkers
Chuck Cottrell
Unkers Store
Priscilla
Shai
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Full
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King
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