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Pancake Breakfast: Start the morning with a pancake breakfast from 7:30-11 a.m.

Bike Ride: The day begins with a bike ride for riders of all ages ability levels. Choose 20-, 35- and 52-mile Rides that begin and end at the Great Barrington Airport! Register online at berkshirebikenfly.org Kids can bring their bikes and helmets and join the free kids race.

Fun: The day will be filled with fun for people of all ages. New and old airplanes will be touching down and taking off all day long and visitors can take 20-minute scenic rides in a J-3 Cub, Archer II or Arrow III plan, plus helicopter rides and Hot Air Balloon Rides too! A demonstration show of

Article source: https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/great-barrington-rotary,577417

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Sam Robinson, 68, has flown more than 100 children through the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Young Eagles program. 

Launched in 1992, the program has given more than 2 million youths 8-17 their first free flights. Its aim is to teach children about aviation.

Parents can visit the EAA Knoxville Chapter 17 website to sign up their Young Eagle. The program takes place at the Knoxville Downtown Island Airport, Sky Ranch Airport in Alcoa and Monroe County Airport in Madisonville.

Stephen Wickizer, the second vice president of Knoxville’s chapter, has flown over 800 young people through Young Eagles.

“I think it shows them a whole different world from the air, what it looks like on the ground,” Wickizer said. “It shows them a different perspective.”

How it began

Robinson always loved airplanes, he recalled from his childhood in Sparta, Tennessee.

“I have really early memories of sitting in my mom’s kitchen in a cardboard box pretending I was flying an airplane,” Robinson said. “I’ve always built model airplanes, you know, the little wind-up planes, radio remote control planes.”

He started flying when he was 15 years old. Since that was before he could drive, his father would have to take him to the airport for lessons. He had his first solo flight at 16, but he didn’t get

Article source: https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2019/06/24/knoxville-aviation-young-eagles-experimental-aircraft-association-pilots/1430404001/

Dale Leonard Geaudreau of Lewiston passed away Wednesday, June 19, 2019, at Lewiston Transitional Care of Cascadia. He was 84 and died peacefully in his sleep after a long battle with prostate cancer.

Dale was born April 15, 1935, at Newport, Wash., to Guy Leonard and Maude (Graham) Geaudreau, then lived at Blanchard, Idaho, where his father owned and operated a sawmill. He graduated from Newport High School in 1953. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in Agriculture Economics from the University of Idaho, he married Martha “Marty” Frances Hill Geaudreau on June 14, 1958.

They lived in Moscow before moving to Coeur d’Alene, where Dale began working for the Idaho Department of Public Health. After starting their family, they moved to Spokane, where Dale was employed as a Quality Control Director at the Carnation Milk Co. He decided later to return to Idaho and the Health Department, moving his family to Lewiston in 1973. Dale found his work at North Central District Health Department very fulfilling and especially enjoyed helping people and businesses to solve various issues until his retirement in 1997. After his abilities began to decline earlier this year, he was admitted to Elite Hospice care and moved from the family home to Lewiston Transitional Care of Cascadia, where he easily made friends and was able to enjoy, as much as possible, the remainder of his life. Dale was quite fond of the caregivers, nurses and his many visitors. He enjoyed their attention, the conversations they shared and special touches

Article source: https://lmtribune.com/obituaries/dale-leonard-geaudreau/article_6d7abf8d-3cd9-5efb-bb50-6ddf64fc78ed.html

Robert Newton can’t pinpoint why, exactly, he began collecting antique washboards. He considers the question, furrows his brow.

Perhaps it’s nostalgia, perhaps it’s an interest in old-timers, he said. The washboards were unusual, and that piqued his interest.

“I grew up in the Depression and things were rough. It brought back memories in that respect,” he said in an interview in his Lebanon home.

Whatever the reason, he has more than 150 washboards, 50 of which hang from the ceiling of his garage. He used to own 200, but he is slowly whittling away at the collection.

A washboard was the mechanism by which people used to clean clothes before the introduction of washers and dryers. You filled a tub with warm water, you leaned the washboard against a side of the tub and you scrubbed clothes against the perforated, raised galvanized metal surface of the board.

Sometimes the washboard also featured rollers, through which you passed the clean clothes to wring out excess water. For decades this was how women cleaned clothes and linens, piles and piles and piles of them.

Zinc King, Top Notch, Columbus, Soap Saver and Kenmore were just some of the manufacturers pitching their product to women with two, three, four, five, six or more kids. Each washboard in Newton’s collection is a testament to hours of human labor.

“To me, it’s almost impossible to think about,” he said.

Now Newton, 85, hopes to donate his collection to the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vt.

He used to pick the washboards up at flea markets

Article source: https://www.vnews.com/Lebanon-man-collects-washboards-and-model-airplanes-26428116

For many Americans, the glorious annual kickoff of summer — Memorial Day weekend — means jumping in a car.

For a small handful of folks in Hood River, Ore., it means jumping in a car and jumping back in time 100 years.

Welcome to the Model T driving school.

It might be the only driving school of its kind, hosted by a museum that may be one of Oregon’s least-known treasures.

The Western Antique Aeroplane Automobile Museum sits on the plateau above the town of Hood River at the small municipal airport, just off a twisting two-lane road. I drove by it for years without taking notice of the large, plain, industrial-style building clad in white metal with big block letters that read simply: WAAAM MUSEUM.

Then, on one of those drives, I noticed the slip-in letters of the roadside marquee read: “LEARN TO DRIVE A MODEL T.”

Some, like me, would read that and shout, “Heck yes! Sign me up!”

Others, I’m sure, would say, “What is a Model T?”

If you don’t know a Model T by name, you’d certainly recognize it by sight. It’s that small old-timey automobile with four big, skinny wheels. It bounces down a road and looks like a horse-drawn carriage minus the horses. It putters, lurches through its gears and leans wildly around curves.

It was the masterpiece of Henry Ford, launching both the Ford Motor Company and the concept of the assembly line. From 1908 until 1927, the Ford factories rolled out some 15 million Model Ts. The design was

Article source: https://www.columbian.com/news/2019/jun/22/model-t-driving-school-sends-students-back-in-time/