No Tackling Flag Football Practice at Hoover School
A youth flag football practice for third and fourth graders at Hoover Elementary School was held last week. Center Steve Crow, son of Dan and Mrs. Crow of Meadowlark Lane NW, surveys the field before centering the ball as players warm up.
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Patriots
Hoover Elementary School
Steve Crow
Dan Crow
Meadowlark Lane NW
Mark Banks
John Banks
Meadowlark Lane
Jim Curtis
James Curtis
Montclair Drive
Joe Wisnovsky
Fruitwood Lane
Ellis Ymca
Cedar Rapids
Solon
Center to Preserve Southern Folk Crafts in Asheville
The Southern Highland Handicraft Guild plans a $2.2 million Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville with a $1.5 million Appalachian Regional Commission grant. The facility will house a museum, library, auditorium, craft shop and demonstrations, run by the guild and owned by the National Park Service.
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Asheville
N.C
UPI
Appalachian
United States
Blue Ridge Parkway
Robert W. Gray
Guild
National Park Service
The
Park Service
Gray
Dear Genie Editor's Note, Iowa connection queries requested
A reader collection requests help with genealogical questions linked to Iowa. Items seek descendants of Theodore Pettinger born 1833 in New Jersey, Mary Carson tied to Troy Mills pension, Samuel Ford and Effie Rose Ford lineage, Nancy J Meulenhoff birthplace, Stierwalt Collier family moves, Betsy Ross link to Betsy Ross via Laura Kyle, and more.
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Genie
Linn County Heritage Society
Iowa
P.O. Box
Cedar Rapids
Theodore Pettinger
New Jersey
Elizabeth
Ebineezer
Illinois
Arthur Pettenger
Lafayette
N.J
Mary Carson
Ohio
Mary E. Carson
Troy Mills
John Carson
Hamil
Lorene Walker
Parkside Drive
Fremont
Calif
Samuel Ford
Fayette County
Effie Rose Ford
Joseph Edwin Rust
Hattie Adelia Rust
Hattie
Delwein
James Paulk
Lakeshore
Miss
Betsy Ross
William Jenkins Michael
Ryan
Hannah Hoag
Hiram Hartman
Laura Kyle
Arthur King Hartman
Della Michael
Blanche Hartman Nennenham
Glenwood Drive
Round Lake Beach
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He Takes Blindness Out of Blind Dates
Fred Weston a 42 year old former stockbroker operates a dating video business in Baltimore for 100 dollars he produces videotapes of single men and women to be viewed by prospective partners. He says the venture is really good and notes demand remains high.
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Baltimore
Fred Weston
Weston
World’s Largest Autograph Book Carved in Sandstone at El Morro
A sandstone rock at El Morro in Valencia County New Mexico stands 200 feet above the valley floor and bears centuries of inscriptions from Zuni and Acoma travelers European explorers and later Americans. Notable is Lt. J H Simpson who corrected his inscription in the guest register after noting an error. The site became a national monument in the early 1900s preserving the historic signatures.
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EL Morro
N.M
UPI
New Mexico
Valencia County
Zuni
Acoma
J.H. Simpson
U.S. Cavalry
Simpson
British Had Musical Last Word at Yorktown Battle
The British later voiced anger at the surrender of Yorktown on October 19 1781 by playing The World Turned Upside Down in dirge tempo. The World Almanac notes this whimsical nursery tune usually a marching favorite as the final British musical gesture in the climactic American Revolution victory.
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Tom Merryman
Nancy J. Meulenhoff
Iredel D. Anderson
Charles Ferry
Eleanor Gilliland
Thomas Conn
West Sixteenth
Topeka
Kan
David
Cynthia Stierwalt Collier
Morgan County
Ind
Alonzo E. Stine
Joseph N. Stine
James H. Collier
John W. Collier
Olly E. Collier
Mamie E. Collier
Steven Collier
Cynthia
Indiana
Lilly Belle
Louis
Dorothy Hamm
Bloomington
Juan de
Onate
Southwest
Catholic Church
Lujan
Father Lerrado
Yorktown
Arya
Cornell College
Cindy McEnroe
Sally Young
FSLIC
Boyson’s
Boyson
Jewelry F Company
Third Avenue SE
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