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Hagerstown, Indiana (September 10, 2012) The new Model T Ford Museum is slated to hold its grand opening during Richmond’s Octoberfest on September 28 at 6 p.m. The museum which was previously located in Centerville, Indiana near the Warm Glow Candle Factory for 5 years moved just a few miles east to Richmond, Indiana’s Historical Depot District this past spring.
Since the move to Richmond volunteers have been steadily preparing the museum’s new home, displays and vehicles for the event.
Today, a photo shoot for the Model T Museum’s newly acquired 1930 Pietenpol Sky Scout was held at the Hagerstown Airport.
The plan arrived at the airport around 10:00 a.m. this morning and was assembled by Model T enthusiasts and many of them brought their own Model Ts to use during the photo shoot.
One of the people there today was Mr. Jay Klehfoth who is the CEO and publisher of the Vintage Ford Magazine.
Jay is a walking encyclopedia when it comes to all things Model T. I was to learn he’s pretty knowledgeable in a lot of areas too. During our walk around of the plane Jay pointed out one of the parts for the engine had been made by a former factory in Richmond of all places. And there are many other special things about this airplane I’m sure he’ll be writing about in the next issue of the the Vintage Ford Magazine. He not only knew a lot about the Pietenpol Sky Scout plane that was being photographed for the magazine cover. He’s pretty sharp when it comes to airports too. He said that the Hagerstown airport were today’s photo shoot was done has the longest grass landing strip in the United States which to me made it the perfect place for today’s event.
This Pietenpol that will be on display at the museum is powered by a 20 HP Model T engine which was modified to include dual-ignition which is used in aviation. According to an article in the AntiqueAirfield.com website from September 10, 2012 there was only one original Pietenpol Sky Scout built by Bernard Pietenpol himself, and just two replicas. The article also said that all 3 were still flying.
The new Model T Ford Museum is going to be an exciting addition to what is one of Indiana’s grandest historical areas and a must in this part of the Midwest.
Richmond is a perfect place for any day trip. But, if you want to see all that Richmond has to offer you’ll need to plan on staying several days.
The Model T Ford Museum is located in Richmond’s Historic Depot District at 309 N 8th St, Richmond, IN 47374 - 765-488-0026.
Model T Ford Museum website: www.mtfca.com/clubpages/museum.htm
Additional Information:
The Model T Ford Club of America has nearly 8,000 families worldwide. Members are from all 50 states and 41 other countries.
The Vintage Ford Magazine is published bimonthly by the Model T Ford Club of America, 119 W. Main Street, Centerville, Indiana and is mailed to all members. Subscription rates are $35.00 per year (six issues) in the United States ($42.00 Canada and $44.00 elsewhere) and include member ship in the club.
All correspondence should be ad dressed to:
THE MODEL T FORD CLUB
OF AMERICA
P.O. Box 126
Centerville, IN 47330-0126
765-855-5248 fax 765-855-3428
e-mail: admin@mtfca.com
Raw Video: Prepping Pietenpol Sky Scout For Photo Shoot youtu.be/7_JnszAF8GA
Video: Pietenpol Sky Scout Photo Shoot youtu.be/h3m6ZWgNJMg
Video: Model T Ford Museum Grand Opening Set youtu.be/OwIiE5O1UQk
[I'm posting two contrasting letters today. The other one shows how a fellow asked his girl out on a date before the invention of the telephone. This one is a soldier's bitter response to a "Dear John" letter.]
Portsmouth [Va.] Dec 27th [1864]
Oh dear don't time fly. I am quite grey already.
Your letter, after a period of ten days since its writing, has at length been received. I answer immediately.
Your letter was full of "slurs", "innuendoes" and such like, that I don't understand. They may come from a trifling disposition rather than from a malicious one. At least I want to think so. I wish rather our acquaintance had terminated in a more pleasant way. Such was my hope and intention. But it is all over and all is right.
The title of Madam is properly a married one but we can strain a point now and then; give it in doubtful cases without much harm to society or young ladies. Ah yes, if I see any of your relatives in this part of this state I shall, as you desire, tell them of you, "what shall I tell them."
Again as you say we don't understand one another, and you are remarkably truthful in that calculation, as in fact, you are at all times. I envy you, your discerning character.
I have not until quite recently found it a "practice to write to you." Lately there has been a piquancy about you that served me for many pleasant cogitations and quaint speculations as to what it could all be about. Before this period I mention, before your unbelief in me became a popular theory with you, I was always watching for and answering your letters with real pleasure. My recent letters have been written also with a view to find out what could really be the matter with you, but I give up the unsuccessful tack. But you might notwithstanding have given me some faint idea as to your real purpose. I might guess for instance "are you engaged to be married soon," have you joined church "Do you take the veil," or what is more than probable have you been giving ear to the cunning fabrications of our well beloved Cousin S. L. How is it?
Yes I often hear from my Brother in Columbus but what of that.
Well Miss or Madam as the case may be I wish you a Happy New Year "sure enough I reckon" as the natives here say.
Oh yes, I don't remember of your having ever before asked me for your two (or four) cards [carte de visite photographs]. "Honor bright," I think you gave them all to me, did you not? Are you going to take them back? I gave by your permission one to my sister who has it now in her album in New York. The other is in my Aunt's album in NY too. I can't send [them] to you until I can either write or get them myself, so have patience and your wounded personnel will be mollified. Your daguerreotype [probably a glass plate ambrotype photograph] I have here. Shall I send it or smash it into oblivion? Speak. Anything of this kind you may have of mine you can just pitch into the fire and watch it please until it resembles the ashes of our dead friendship.
Pardon me if I said aught in offense or that is not polite, for I am in a dreadful hurry.
I am yours Candidly,
F. P. D.
[Lieutenant Frank P. Dale, Company H, 3rd Ohio Infantry]
Description: Letter from Polly Thomson and Helen Keller to Nella Braddy Henney from Jerusalem, Israel on May 12, 1952. Page 5 of 6.
This image is part of a collection of travel photos and correspondence of Helen Keller and Polly Thomson on a 1952 trip to Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel.
Full Text: ... Helen and the lecture. If only, if only it will not be forgotten.
Heat is getting bad. We are tired all the time, but nights cool, thank heaven.
We are stopping at the American Hostel, run by an American woman, whom we evidently met at the Cosmopolitan Club last year. Don't remember her. Food awful. Coffee worse.
[?] to-day to an Arab hospital, run by the Lutherans. Jim [?] I heard, but bitter. Helen stood her ground. I was proud of her.
Oh, we will have so much to tell you when we meet.
Had beautiful letter from Macey and good one from Eric Boulton [?]
Karl Meyer has been an angel to us -- refined gentleman -- so, so careful of us and so helpful. If only we had a man like him to travel around with us. I have...
Creator: Polly Thomson; Helen Keller
Date: 1952
Format: letter
Digital Identifier: AG151-ME-005
Acquisition note: From the collection of Nella Braddy Henney
Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
SDASM.TITLE: Gildred Commemeration Correspondence
SDASM.CATALOG: Gildred_00003
SDASM.DATE: 20-Jun-80
SDASM.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: San Diego Aero-Space Museum, Richard L. Cormier, Acting Executive Director of SDA-SM
SDASM.COLLECTION: Theodore Gildred Ecuador Flights Special Collection
SDASM.TAGS: Theodore Gildred Ecuador Flights Special Collection
PUBLIC COMMONS.SOURCE INSTITUTION: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
My father once had to go ashore with three others on the coast of Newfoundland from the USS Augusta (WWII) to retrieve one of the target kites mentioned in this letter. Much trudging through swampy fields and woods!
Fun letter from a charming, beer-loving soldier to his sweetheart in Bad Ischl
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"Meine liebe, liebe Mitzl!
Der heutige Sonntag soll auch nicht vergehen, ohne daß ich meinem fernen Lib(?) einige Zeilen geschrieben habe. Zunächst muß ich für noch für Deinen lieben Brief vom 1.8. und für die erhaltenen Zigaretten – tausend Mal danken. Du meinst in deinem Brief alle Willy hätten so harte Köpfe. Wie meinst du das eigentlich? Meinst du mich eigentlich… damit und wieso? Ganz klar ist mir diese Bemerkung nicht. Ich bitte also um nähere Erklärung. Das angeblich beigelegte Bier ist nicht mit angekommen. Hast du es nun vergessen einzulegen oder ist es auf der Tat aber auch angekommen? Hoffentlich bekomme ich für den Verlust recht bald Ersatz.
Ganz besonders freue ich mich schon auf die in Arbeit befindlichen Bänden. Kann schon gar nicht die Zeit abwarten, daß sie fertig sind. Sei unbesorgt mein Lib die Kritik wird schon nicht zu streng ausfallen oder habe ich schon einmal zu strenge Kritik über dich geübt? Ich wüßte nicht...
Den heutigen Tag werde ich wohl ungefähr nach folgendem Programm verleben: heute Nachmittag werde ich zum R—gehen und somit den Nachmittag ausfüllen. Abends werde ich mit einigen Kameraden gemütlich ein Glas Bier trinken oder in einem Cafe strenge Kritik über die kleinen Mädchen und deren Garderobe halten. Du kannst dir denken, daß manchen nicht ganz gut dabei wegkommen. Gelegenheit wird nun Samstags hier ja genug da—geboten. Hast du nicht Lust einmal solch internen – beizuwohnen, da konntest du allerhand zu hören und sehen bekommen.
Den heutigen Tag werde ich wohl ungefähr nach folgendem Programm verleben: heute Nachmittag werde ich zum R—gehen und somit den Nachmittag ausfüllen. Abends werde ich mit einigen Kameraden gemütlich ein Glas Bier trinken oder in einem Cafe strenge Kritik über die kleinen Mädchen und deren Garderobe halten. Du kannst dir denken, daß manchen nicht ganz gut dabei wegkommen. Gelegenheit wird nun Samstags hier ja genug da—geboten. Hast du nicht Lust einmal solch internen – beizuwohnen, da konntest du allerhand zu hören und sehen bekommen.
Morgen und übermorgen gehe ich auf Kasernenwache. Wenn ich letzten Sonntag nicht auf Urlaub gewesen wäre, wäre ich gestern mit einem Transport zur Etappe abgegangen, da ich aber nicht zur Stelle war, konnte man mich nicht dahin eintreiben. Mit der tollen achen schein es nichts zu werden.
Vielleicht kommt in nächster Woche meine Mutter und Tante mal nach hier. Letzte Woche ist nichts daraus geworden. D—nun mein Lib will ich schließen, damit ich noch rechtzeitig zum Rennplatz komme. Laß dich – küssen, in treuer Liebe
Dein Willy"
My newest set of correspondence cards.
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Postmarked January 1, 1923, at Brooklyn, N.Y.
Transcription:
Jan. 1 – 1923
Keeney’s Brooklyn
My dearest Jean,
It was too bad I couldn’t get to see you again before I left the old homestead. The reason was we were booked in McKinley Square and so had to get back.
Let me thank you and your mother for the lovely Christmas gifts I received from you.
We expect to get started some day for the Keith people. At present we are filling in independent stuff. Loew wants the act for his circuit but we want the better stuff now. They don’t pay any money to speak of around New York. Mostly all “cuts” and it is fierce.
Last night we celebrated the old year out and the new year in. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harvard, Cagnin and Lorraine were our guests. We had a buffet lunch and a quart of liquor which they consumed. I had a couple of drinks and then jumped into the liverwurst.
Attended a couple of dances while in [his New York home town] Owego and had a lovely time. Took Ruth Gardner to the Adelphia Frolic and a lot of the old “thrills” came back to me. On Wednesday night [his older brother and sister-in-law] Art, Lydia and I attended the dance down at Nichols. It was a wild affair with eats and “drinks” (on the hips of most everyone). I left at 4:06 a.m. for New York and arrived in time for the matinée. Was sure a “fagged-out” on Thursday and I am still tired.
Let me wish you and all the folks a very prosperous New Year and hope you will be back in good health soon.
With love and kisses, I am
Your devoted brother [sic],
Fritz
P.S. [Stage partner] Jimmy [Casson] also joins in with a Happy New Year.
Description: Educator and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, North Carolina, Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown was active in the National Council of Negro Women, the N.C. Teachers Association, etc., and was the first black woman to serve on the national board of the YWCA. She lectured and wrote about black women, education, and race relations.
Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Collection: Charlotte Hawkins Brown Papers
Call Number: A-146
Catalog Record: id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/000605309/catalog
Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian
2B pencil.
What started out as a mind map for media projects quickly became an involved drawing.
Drawing is an instinctive correspondence that has been passed to us from our ancestors and we continue to share it today on Flickr.
[writing from] Wichita, Kansas
August 10, 1920
Dear Father, Mother and All,
By this time, you have recorded my $100 in the bank under my account. Next week I will send $25 for my section of the family plot. I need a new pair of shoes which I will buy and a few other necessities together with my living expenses, will eat up my salary like nothing.
Tillie's letter written Saturday came today (Tuesday) and was sure glad to hear from her. She sent me Mrs. Card's address, which I can't use. Summerfield is quite a ways from here and I couldn't see her.
At our arrival Monday, a telegram awaited us. The contents were as follows, “Oklahoma City out. Kansas City Mo. Globe. Confirm.” So we go to Kansas City, Mo. Globe Theater the last half instead of Oklahoma City. It makes it better as it is on the way to Saint Louis and the other is back south from here. Emil Bonisetti, who plays there the last half, will bring my mail to me in Saint Louis. Week of August 15th - Next week, we hit St. Louis, Mo. for Pantages again, the Empress Theater. My third time there and still a different theater to play. First time for Loew-Garrick Theater, second time for Western Vaudeville - Columbia Theater and now the Empress.
Also heard from Arthur's newfound wife. She seems to be crazy about him. How do you feel? Wait till I bring my queen into the fold.
Just slightly cooler in Kansas compared with Texas. Last Sunday, the old thermometer registered 106°. Some heat!
Jim Jam Jems gives Cox quite a rub. Get it and read it! The most sensational magazine in the country. The “Scrantonian” is like Aesop’s fables compared with it. All the performers read it.
It's only a matter of a short while before I will be home again. Oh! for a great time then, in Owego. Bill Klem will be there to originate another pet expression like the “Echo”. The program will run something like this:-
11:35 p.m. Arrival of the Klem Contingent from Buffalo and the West, met by the Governor and His Wife, the Royal Duchess de Ten-Leaves, the Bingo [Binghamton] section, “TECK-La” [his sister Theckla aka Tillie], the New York Battalion, the Wheelers, the Endicott-Johnson and Kayser Glove Factory represented by [his brother] Art and his better half and [his sister] Lillian - supported by attendants, Lords, Knights of the Cellar and Barley-Corn, the Spirit of the Occasion, called “John” for short. Enter Bony Harding and Ruegge, fighting to see who will convey, the champion talkers, to the Klem asylum on Paige Street.
4:00 a.m. “Im Tiefin Keller” sung by Arthur supported by the noble cast of Klems.
(curtain)
Best love and kisses to you all.
Will write from Kansas City. I am,
Your loving son,
[signed] Frederick
I set up one half of the dining room table for creating snailmail art. Postcrossing & Month of Letters happen here in my House of Awesome.
Description: Educator and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, North Carolina, Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown was active in the National Council of Negro Women, the N.C. Teachers Association, etc., and was the first black woman to serve on the national board of the YWCA. She lectured and wrote about black women, education, and race relations.
Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Collection: Charlotte Hawkins Brown Papers
Call Number: A-146
Catalog Record: id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/000605309/catalog
Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian
Part of the Leo Kohn Photography Exhibit at the Kelch Aviation Museum, Brodhead, Wisconsin, USA.
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Description: Educator and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, North Carolina, Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown was active in the National Council of Negro Women, the N.C. Teachers Association, etc., and was the first black woman to serve on the national board of the YWCA. She lectured and wrote about black women, education, and race relations.
Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Collection: Charlotte Hawkins Brown Papers
Call Number: A-146
Catalog Record: id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/000605309/catalog
Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian
International Correspondence Schools (Scranton, Pa.)
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The Carpenter (Vol. XLIV, No. 12. December, 1924), p. [48].
In the plaza that surrounds the Catedral de la Habana there are many elegant mansions that once housed the city's aristocrats. On the eastern edge is the early 18th-century Casa de Lombillo, the site of Cuba's first post office. This letter drop in the shape of a Greek tragedy mask grimaces from the wall outside the main door. Its inscriptions reads: "correspondencia interior y peninsular". In the old days you could drop both local and international ("peninsular" mail was being sent to the Iberian Peninsula or Spain) letters in one slot. The building is now home to an education museum.
(fodor's travel)