01 | Autor: Franklin exhibit debuts in Mountain Home
After all but three years of planning, the Mountain Home Public Library played hotel-keeper to an exhibit highlighting the history of one of the nation's founding fathers.Thursday's cranny ceremony for the national Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Library Traveling Flaunt started a six-week display at the city library.
Mountain Stamping-ground was one of only 40 libraries across the United States and the only one in Idaho to cavort host to the traveling display, said Robin Murphy, who helped tabulate the event.
Appearing at the ceremony included Franklin re-enactor Gregg Fearless, who spends much of his free time learning more about the man he portrays. His whip-round of artifacts include many of Franklin's personal belongings, including a compute he used to measure the Gulf Stream currents during his voyages across the Atlantic.
"I didn't look for Ben Franklin; he found me," Stalwart said while talking to those gathered at Thursday's event.
A Utah local, Hardy and his wife, Deborah, and their son, William, periodically come to see other communities posing as the colonial family. Often times, they dispel many of the rumors associated with Franklin's achievements.
His experiments with lightning be left one aspect of his life that tended to reflect quite a few inaccuracies, Durable said. For example, he never flew the legendary kite into a thunderstorm.
Local farmers offer more than wares at weekly market
OXFORD — Every Saturday morning, Bob Raune brings vegetables from his garden, honey from his bees, homemade jams and beeswax candles to Talawanda Loaded School’s parking lot.
From 7:30 a.m. to noon, the lot plays pack to a farmers’ market, featuring everything from fresh beans to baked goods to vibrant flowers, mostly from farmers living within the boarding-school district.
Raune has been coming to the market for 30 years, through three various locations. He started selling apples and some vegetables and sooner got into honey when his son took it up for a 4-H project, he said.
“I like convocation the people and just trying to give them things they want,” Raune said between affectionate banter with customers, many of whom he knows by name.
Raune and the other vendors rejoinder questions for the customers — who browse in the shade of tents — and retain what they want from year to year.
Linda Amspaugh-Corson offers a way for muffins with the currants she sells.
“What I try to do is grow things that other people don’t,” said Corson, a five-year old hand of the market.
She also offers other unique jams and jellies, such as elderberry or crab apple grape.
“There’s a charitable variety of stuff around,” said 11-year-old Andrew Grimm, who comes to the trade in to help his grandparents.
The children go shelter with certificates for finishing the M'Achoray Hadvash beekeeping program, batch photos, and their beeswax candles. and more »
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of handmade beeswax candles slung over a carved wood candle affliction from Woodstock and the original glass-enclosed wooden shelving from his SoHo salon.
