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Michigan History: A Course Companion, by Emilee Johnson, M.A. | Higher Education he.kendallhunt.com/product/m… (link).
Beautiful late 19th century anthology of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. "Song of Hiawatha" is about a real Iroquois figure but in the poem he is Ojibwe and lives in what is now Michigan's Upper Peninsula "On the shores of Gitche Gumee," or Lake Superior. nps.gov/long/learn/historycu… (link). You can tour Longfellow's house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The house was also Washington's HQ during the Siege of Boston, 1775-1776. nps.gov/long/index.htm (link).
Pres. Herbert Hoover established Hiawatha National Forest in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in 1931. He loved fishing, incidentally. The Civilian Conservation Corps later did a great deal of work there. In the 1960s, Hiawatha merged with Marquette National Forest, established by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt in 1909. fs.usda.gov/r09/hiawatha/r… (link). TR also loved the outdoors. Photo of exhibit at Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum.
Surprised to open a book titled, Young England, and see a cowboy. Published in London. No year given but based an airplane illustration and other details from a brief perusal, I think this is mid-1920s. Wide variety of stories and illustrations. May go back for it, looked super interesting.
It seems French aviator Joseph Thoret was planning to supply a scientific observatory on Mont Blanc by air. nytimes.com/1926/09/01/archi… (link). Here's a photo of him flying over the Alps, just like in the illustration: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F… (link). Interesting!
James Fenimore Cooper's inland seas... Cold and windy Lake Michigan. Someone was doing really well with a big eagle kite.
This one made me smile. 1945 Donald Duck story. He rides a plane, takes a ship through the Panama Canal, and crosses the Equator.
Little blighter walked right up to the airscrew!
peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/Dece… (link).
Inauguration suits of Ike and Mamie Eisenhower at the Eisenhower Presidential Museum, Abilene, Kansas. eisenhowerlibrary.gov/ (link). First Lady Mamie was a 1950s fashion icon. The press showed some impartiality and respect back then. nps.gov/eise/learn/historycu… (link).
Ike's inauguration Bible was a gift from his mother Ida. Eisenhower Presidential Museum, Abilene, Kansas. nps.gov/eise/learn/historycu… (link).
Future First Lady Mamie Doud Eisenhower's wedding dress, 1916. Eisenhower Presidential Museum, Abilene, Kansas. eisenhowerlibrary.gov/ (link).
Happy birthday, Ike! Today in 1890.
thenmusa.org/biographies/dwi… (link).
Mural in Eisenhower Presidential Museum, Abilene, Kansas.
Full bookcase in the Eisenhower parlor. Ida's boys were not allowed in this fine front room except to borrow books. They had to take them elsewhere to read and put them back carefully. Money was tight but education was a priority. It's important to develop a habit of reading while you're very young. eisenhowerlibrary.gov/ (link).
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's childhood home in Abilene, Kansas, where he lived until leaving for West Point in 1911. His parents lived in the house until their deaths in the 1940s. eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenh… (link).
The family Bible in the Eisenhower parlor, Abilene, Kansas. eisenhowerlibrary.gov/ (link).
Snoopy on patrol. He's wearing a bearskin hat like the British Household Guards. changing-guard.com/foot-guar… (link). Maybe he's carrying a World War I Lee Enfield rifle with bayonet. worldhistory.org/image/21388… (link).
Here's a really interesting artifact: a British SMLE rifle with a wire-cutting attachment. National World War I Museum, Kansas City, Missouri. theworldwar.org/ (link).
