It is Labor Day. Yours truly has been working very laborious this year learning new technology. Not an easy task, but I am getting there. I have that slow learner disorder with new devices.

This year I have had an unusual amount of research request. The inquirers all seem to share a familiar trait. By the time I respond, I receive a reply back, that they found everything on the internet. Truth be known, in a lot of those cases, the documents that I have in those particular files are not available on the internet. An example is correspondence with their long lost relatives. That is their loss, not mine. While there is a wealth information to be found online (some of which is questionable) and there is a wealth of material that is not. I will continue to do the hard work of hands on the ground, examining original documents versus questionable online sources, so I guess that makes me a relic of the past.

In the meantime, enjoy this special holiday. I am going to toil away for a part of the day working on the 2025 Calendars.

Tim

To see an actual jackalope in the wild, is rare–like spotting Big Foot. Yet, evidence of their existence during the 1950s through 1980s could be found at any roadhouse, i.e. bar/restaurant gas station such as the original Hallelujah Junction. However, those establishments are a vanishing breed, too.

The Jackalope, for those not familiar with the species is a cross between a jack rabbit and antelope. In the 1930s, Douglas Herrick of Wyoming is attributed to be the first to discover the mythological creature. Herrick, as an amateur taxidermist, made the first mounting. In time, others did too, but used small deer horns instead. Over the next few decades the appearance of the mounted Jackalope was widespread in the Intermountain West.

Tim

For your summer time treat, starting next Tuesday, July 30 through mid-September there will be Tuesday Tidbit post. One can thank Mother Nature and the heat wave for that. This has not been ideal conditions for outdoor explorations.

Tim

For those just tuning you can read about the Benjamin Pollard story that was posted earlier this year  here.

Mark Hakvoort of Hollands Kroon, in the Netherlands in their quest to honor and  to remember the aircraft and crews perished there during World War II contacted me about Pollard. You can learn more from their website here 

One of those who perished was Benjamin Pollard, whose body would eventually be brought back to the United States and buried in the Lassen Cemetery, Susanville. It was Mr. Hakvoort’s goal to locate descendants. Since that initial post we have been able to locate numerous family. Pollard has a niece who resides in France. On October 5th they will be holding remembrance ceremony for Pollard in the Netherlands and his niece plans to attend. I was thrilled that a connection could be made.

Tim

On a quarterly basis, I ask you the reader, if there is something you would like to learn more about or maybe its something you heard, but question its validity. So here is an opportunity to participate. I will do my best to answer any questions. It should be noted, it may take awhile for the answer to appear as a post. The primary reason, many of the daily posts are done nearly a month in advance. So by the time you read this I am already working on posts for the middle of August, or at least I should be. Whatever the case may be, I look forward to hearing from you. Of course, it should be noted that paid subscribers requests receive priority. In addition, you can always send a request at any time.

Tim