Saturday, August 18, 2012
Friday, August 17, 2012
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Friday, August 03, 2012
Region 5 West - XC Racing & Team-flying Camp Chilhowee Gliderport September 1-9, 2012
Three events will be held at Chilhowee Gliderport during the Labor Day week (September 1-9, 2012):
· The SSA-sanctioned Region 5 West (R5W) Regional is a split-period contest taking place over the Labor Day weekend (Sept. 1, 2, 3) and the following weekend (Sept. 8, 9).
· The GTA (Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama) race series will hold a 3-day race during the Labor Day weekend (Sept. 1, 2, 3). GTA members will integrate within the other activities during the first weekend, and GTA pilots flying in the R5W Regional will also get a GTA score.
· A two-prong cross-country and team-flying practice camp will be held during the week on Sept. 4, 5, 6, and 7.
Pilots are welcome in all three events. Those wanting to make it a full week of fun-filled activities can elect to participate in one, two, or all three soaring events, and/or enjoy the many hiking, rafting, and other activities that the local Over-Hill area offers during the week.
R5W Regional: Register on SSA website. Contact Sarah Arnold at info@chilhowee.com. Registration is $200 plus $43 per tow. Price of the first 2000’ tow and Saturday night dinners on the 2nd and 9th are included. Guest registration for one weekend only is $120 plus $43 per tow with one Saturday night dinner included. Extra dinners are $15.
XC Racing & Team-flying Camp: The Camp will have two parallel sessions:
· One will cater to pilots desiring to discover cross-country soaring and to pilots who are relatively new to racing. Morning lectures will focus on the fundamentals of cross-country soaring, with topics such as preparation, instrumentation, thermalling, route optimization, McCready, etc. and will also review the basics of contest flying. Based on participant’s interest, afternoon flying will include flying in small groups over small practice circuits, each group being led by an experienced mentor pilot, including some members of the US Soaring Team.
· The second session will be for more advanced and experienced pilots and will focus on team-flying methods and techniques. Morning lectures will include some materials from the US Team practice week. Afternoon flying will focus on pair-flying over practice tasks, followed by reviews, critiques, and discussions in the evening or over dinner.
Costs – $80 plus $43 per tow. No extra charge to full Region V West registered pilots.
Contact: To allow proper scheduling of tow planes, events, lectures, materials needs, etc., please let Sarah know your intent to participate in the Camp, including which session (cross-country or team-flying session) as soon as possible.
Sarah Arnold
Owner/OperatorChilhowee Gliderport
(423) 506-9015
www.chilhowee.com
Owner/OperatorChilhowee Gliderport
(423) 506-9015
www.chilhowee.com
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Thursday, August 02, 2012
from Dave Strange
Finally....Slavery Made Personal
It is often true that "what you touch, touches you."
For example, I remember a few years ago, a family reunion was held to celebrate the restoration of a cemetery that we had done. Members of the family came, literally, from all corners of the continental U.S. After the ceremony, the leader of that family effort came over to me. "See that man over there with his hand on the tombstone?"
I looked and saw a grown man leaning respectfully toward a tall old tombstone, his hand flat against it .... tears flowing from his eyes. "That is my son," the woman said. "He disagreed with this cemetery restoration work the whole time, thinking it to be just a silly waste of time over people he had never known."
"That tombstone is his great-grandfather, and he just told me, 'Now I get it, Mom. Now I get it.' "
That is how I feel about some old papers that I come across from time to time at the Museum.
We had several on loan a few years ago, for us to scan to our computer digital files.
But I came across another just recently, as I sorted through one of our collections.
Slave papers. Slave bill of sales.
Now I "know" about slavery and I "know" that it was wrong.
But to personally touch a paper that was hand written out the same as if one was selling a cow, and touching the folds in the paper from when it was folded up and placed in the "owner's" pocket.
Now, I gotta say, that touches me. It brings home, in simple terms, the reality of things.
The slave bill of sale we have at the museum describes "for a sum of seven hundred dollars.....a negro man named Harry" described as "sound in body and mind except the tip of a finger on the left hand."
It was dated 1859. With the Civil War so close at hand, I wonder if the man ever saw freedom.
Others I have seen describe women and children being bought and sold. One I remember in particular was a bill of sale for a mother and two children in 1811.
1811. More than half a century before slavery was ended in America. That bill of sale described them as "slave for life", and I suppose they were. I wonder and fear what all might have happened to that family, so far from any hope of freedom.
Now, this might all seem trite and silly to some who have closer ties to such things. Silly to others because such things were so long ago.
But it is not silly to me.
And I doubt it is now silly to you.
If it is, come touch one of these papers sometime. Visit a grave site of a long-ago relative, touch the tombstone, and think seriously for a moment about real people of our past.
If you touch the past, it will touch you.
Thank you for being a Friend of the Bullitt County History Museum.
David Strange
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
All You Ever Do (Is Give Me The Blues)
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OHBWfGOVoA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OHBWfGOVoA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Sunday, July 08, 2012
Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Friday, June 29, 2012
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Thursday, June 07, 2012
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Friday, June 01, 2012
A Ninety-Nines project?
AirVenture Grounds Beautification
Over the past few years, investments on our site such as clearer signage, updated restrooms and improved drainage have helped improve the AirVenture experience. This year, EAA hopes to plant about 200 trees to bring much needed shade on those long, hot summer days. We invite you to join us in this effort! Plant a tree in your name for a donation of $750.
Each donated tree is an Autumn Blaze Maple, one of the most popular new tree introductions in history. Traffic stopping, reliable red fall color, and the fastest growing maple mature 3 to 5 feet or more per year! Your donated tree will provide an abundant amount of shade with minimal fall clean up.
Order your tree online by selecting "Other Amount," enter $750 in the accompanying box, select "AirVenture Grounds Tree" as the program you'd like to support, and fill the necessary personal information.
To learn more about donating a tree on the AirVenture grounds, please contactdevelopment@eaa.org or telephone 1-800-236-1025.
Monday, May 28, 2012
Learning chant: ICEL "Glory to God."
I know. There are flags on the notes. Why? Because we need a little help.
A music student learns Debussy’s Clair de Lune by counting 123 123 123 123, while the uninitiated listener hears something quite different. I envy that listener, because I will never be able to hear what he hears.
We've been using the "no rhythm notated" stemless chant tones, but 95% of the world interprets that as quarter notes.
Debussy had to write his music somehow. So do we. We can write for the desired result.
A music student learns Debussy’s Clair de Lune by counting 123 123 123 123, while the uninitiated listener hears something quite different. I envy that listener, because I will never be able to hear what he hears.
We've been using the "no rhythm notated" stemless chant tones, but 95% of the world interprets that as quarter notes.
Debussy had to write his music somehow. So do we. We can write for the desired result.
This arrangement is for the cantor, choir, and accompanist first learning to sing the ICEL Glory to God (2010), which is currently found in every Catholic missal. It follows the accepted standards for rhythm in chant, without the uncertainty. And it really doesn't allow us to fall into that mono-rhythm that we too often end up singing.
If the assembly sings along by following the chant from the official ICEL melody in their missal, they have the opportunity to learn by hearing a pretty natural chant flow. The accompaniment keeps things moving a little, and in a year or two or ten, if anyone likes it well enough to sing it a capella, the chant will have broken its bonds.
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