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Big_Holla
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Bahahahahahah....yeah forget about bringing your own pole unless it's used to give your kid while you untangle theirs!!
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Now this was pretty cool on milkweed!
Milkweed trucks, part of the war effort during World War Two.
Pegg Lyons-RoehmAuthorI had heard for years from my husband Sheldon Buckmaster's mother Lucille Buckmaster about how during the WWII era, she would go into the fields, especially near their Petoskey (Emmet County) MI home, and pick milkweed pods for the war effort. She told how the milkweed floss was used for the filling in flotation vests for the military personnel. During WWII civilians were a very important part of the war effort, and everyone truly put forth! I had not realized the scope of this Milkweed Pod collection effort in the Emmet County area until a friend shared with me, to look through, many of his family's photos. Then I discovered this ORIGINAL photo below of the Emmet County Fairgrounds with some of the 125,000 bags of pods, collected in 1944. The Emmet County Fairgrounds was the "world's largest milkweed center, and the location of the only processing plant of its kind in the world" according to the article shown below, from the Petoskey Public School student written newspaper "The Hi-light" from the Thursday, November 2, 1944 issue. ~ Karla Howard BuckmasterNOTE: Records show the first fair was held here i 1895 by the Little Traverse Agricultural Association, but old timers told that horse racing was conducted here prior to that.In 1928, the government was trying to rid the land of milkweed... the "noxious weed". By 1943, however, the government was advertising for everyone, and anyone, young, or old, to collect the milkweed pods, and to be paid for doing so! The milkweed pod's "virtue had been discovered" as naturalist Ralph Waldo Emerson had stated
Milkweed trucks, part of the war effort during World War Two.
Pegg Lyons-RoehmAuthorI had heard for years from my husband Sheldon Buckmaster's mother Lucille Buckmaster about how during the WWII era, she would go into the fields, especially near their Petoskey (Emmet County) MI home, and pick milkweed pods for the war effort. She told how the milkweed floss was used for the filling in flotation vests for the military personnel. During WWII civilians were a very important part of the war effort, and everyone truly put forth! I had not realized the scope of this Milkweed Pod collection effort in the Emmet County area until a friend shared with me, to look through, many of his family's photos. Then I discovered this ORIGINAL photo below of the Emmet County Fairgrounds with some of the 125,000 bags of pods, collected in 1944. The Emmet County Fairgrounds was the "world's largest milkweed center, and the location of the only processing plant of its kind in the world" according to the article shown below, from the Petoskey Public School student written newspaper "The Hi-light" from the Thursday, November 2, 1944 issue. ~ Karla Howard BuckmasterNOTE: Records show the first fair was held here i 1895 by the Little Traverse Agricultural Association, but old timers told that horse racing was conducted here prior to that.In 1928, the government was trying to rid the land of milkweed... the "noxious weed". By 1943, however, the government was advertising for everyone, and anyone, young, or old, to collect the milkweed pods, and to be paid for doing so! The milkweed pod's "virtue had been discovered" as naturalist Ralph Waldo Emerson had stated
Big_Holla
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I'm always in awe when I read about how communities & individuals stepped up in times of need to help for the greater cause, especially during those times . So many people today cannot comprehend that.
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Balls. Pure balls. Big brass ones.
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