The Search For Amelia Continues
Hawaii Mimosa Trees
June 20, 2008
We got up to a beautiful sunny breezy day and drove to Amelia Earhart Earthwork, a one-acre portrait of Amelia Earhart on the berm of a hill overlooking Atchinson’s Warnock Lake. The all-natural earthwork is composed of a mixture of rock, wood and permanent plantings. The tall native grasses create the illusion of Earhart’s scarf flapping in the Kansas breeze. The best view is for pilots; GPS coordinates are: Lat N39 degrees 32.243/Long W93 degrees 08.820.
The International Forest of Friendship is a living, growing memorial to the World History of Aviation and Aerospace; it was a gift to America in 1976 from the city of Atchison and the 99s. The Moon tree was grown from a seed taken to the moon by a Command Module pilot Stuart Roosa in Apollo 14. Will cut the vines growing up the PA Eastern Hemlock. Kathy pointed out the Mimosa tress from Hawaii. We pressed a few leaves of the Siberian Sourwood Tree.
Texas Pecan
PA Eastern Hemlock
Moon Tree
We made our way to the visitor center and walked around the town/train museum. Will turned in his ballot telling what he would do if he was President for a day like David Rice Atchinson was. Did you know we had a President that served just twenty-four hours?! Then we went outside and played on the trains. We drove down to the river and relaxed before heading over to the Waldorf for the night.
June 20, 2008We got up to a beautiful sunny breezy day and drove to Amelia Earhart Earthwork, a one-acre portrait of Amelia Earhart on the berm of a hill overlooking Atchinson’s Warnock Lake. The all-natural earthwork is composed of a mixture of rock, wood and permanent plantings. The tall native grasses create the illusion of Earhart’s scarf flapping in the Kansas breeze. The best view is for pilots; GPS coordinates are: Lat N39 degrees 32.243/Long W93 degrees 08.820.
The International Forest of Friendship is a living, growing memorial to the World History of Aviation and Aerospace; it was a gift to America in 1976 from the city of Atchison and the 99s. The Moon tree was grown from a seed taken to the moon by a Command Module pilot Stuart Roosa in Apollo 14. Will cut the vines growing up the PA Eastern Hemlock. Kathy pointed out the Mimosa tress from Hawaii. We pressed a few leaves of the Siberian Sourwood Tree.
Texas Pecan
PA Eastern Hemlock
Moon Tree
We made our way to the visitor center and walked around the town/train museum. Will turned in his ballot telling what he would do if he was President for a day like David Rice Atchinson was. Did you know we had a President that served just twenty-four hours?! Then we went outside and played on the trains. We drove down to the river and relaxed before heading over to the Waldorf for the night.
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