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> Does anyone know if the Museum of fur trade is still open.Got a friend who
> is going up that way and he heard it was closed down for good? Anyone know?
>
> Traphand
> Rick Petzoldt
> Traphand@aol.com
>
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Why not give them a call at 1-308-432-3843 or fax them at 1-308-432-5963.
their web site is: www.furtrade.org
will forward this to them at: museum@furtrade.org
their hours are from 8AM to 5PM from Memorial Day to September 30th according to the last "Quarterly", this has been the standard hours for the last twenty years at least.
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I thought the list might be interested on the happenings at the Fort west of
Denver Saturday night. I talked to a group at the Rocky Mt. College
Rendezvous on their way to the Terry Johnston event. Roadkill
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Mark
Thought you and the list would enjoy a little recap of the Terry C.
Johnston Farewell Dinner that was held Saturday evening, August 11.
Eighty people gathered to honor Terry at a dinner at Sam Arnold's The
Fort Restaurant in Morrison, Colo. The 80 folks were friends and fans
of Terry, including Ian Patrick of Nederland, CO, John Ludzador,
Loveland, CO and Bill Wagers who have been for years rendezvous friends
of Terry.
John, knew Terry before the first book Carry the Wind was published. He
told a story about Terry showing up at a rendezvous with his buckskins
still wrapped in a plastic and he and Bill immediately throwing mud
balls at Terry's clean buckskins.
Another person told a story about buying a car from Terry just after the
first book was published and giving him a copy of Carry the Wind.
Other's told of their encounters with Terry on the Mountain Man
historical tour.
A number of items were auctioned as fund raisers for the Terry C.
Johnston scholarship fund, the Custer Battlefield land fund and the
American Cancer Society. Close to $2000 was raised.
Several times a jug of an unknown liquid was passed about the tables of
participants. I can speak with personal experience that whatever that
liquid was it left a warm spot in my heart and a new animation in my
voice during dinner and the ceremonies that followed.
I received permission from Vanette Johnston, Terry's widow, to contact A
and E Network's Biography to suggest to them that they do a biography on
Terry. Anyone who has any contacts there please have them get in touch
with me at msws@msws.net.
Those who would like to donate to the three funds established in Terry's
name can contact the following:
1. Terry C. Johnston Memorial Scholarship Fund, Montana State
University-Billings Foundation, 1500 North 30th Street, Billings, MT
59101; phone 1-406-657-2244;
2. National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance, c/o Entertainment
Industry
Foundation, 11132 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 401, Studio City, CA
<html><head><meta Name='keywords' Content='commtouch, pronto, mail, free email, free, branded, web based, free web based email, communications, internet, software, advertising banners, e-mail, free software'></head><body ><div align='left'><font ><blockquote><blockquote><TT>Hey Lanney & Magpie,<BR>
<BR>
If you ever get to either coast look up one of<BR>
many sailing ship museums, they have lots of<BR>
"grommets" seen in the sails, most of the older<BR>
ones are like your post says Lanney; "a wooden<BR>
ring fixed to a stay, to confine the stay-sails;<BR>
used in the place of a grommet", let me add that<BR>
brass, iron and copper rings are also seen as<BR>
grommets. I was told depending on the owner of<BR>
the ship - would determine what material was used<BR>
(English, Spanish, Dutch & so on), of course we<BR>
the colonies where using the cheapest material<BR>
available because of our funds in the early years.<BR>
<BR>
At Valley Forge I have seen iron rings from<BR>
Officers tents that have been recovered in the<BR>
many digs, they would have been "whipped" in on<BR>
the material. <BR>
<BR>
Here's an interesting item about the grommets,<BR>
it's funny how modern tent makers today over-look<BR>
what many of the original makers did in beefing<BR>
up the corners and other areas where one would<BR>
find some of these rings. The extra material at<BR>
the corner is a half circle going from edge to<BR>
edge, not the 90 degree point we see today; that<BR>
point is pulling from one spot and will tear out<BR>
in time, where the rounded one is pulling all the<BR>
way around.<BR>
<BR>
Lanney have you heard from Buck lately !<BR>
<BR>
Later.<BR>
Concho.<BR>
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Magpie<BR>
I have heard folks more authoritative them I say<BR>
that an iron ring sewn into a piece of canvas<BR>
served as a grommet. I suppose the tedious<BR>
nature of sewing grommets by hand caused the<BR>
invention of the two piece, pressed brass grommet<BR>
as we know it.<BR>
<BR>
The Webster's 1828 Dictionary has only 3<BR>
references to "grommet". See<BR>
below. The very word seems to be nautical in origin.<BR>
Lanney<BR>
<BR>
GROMMET, n. Among seamen, a ring formed of a<BR>
strand of rope laid in three times round; used to<BR>
fasten the upper edge of a sail to its stay.<BR>
<BR>
HANK, n.<BR>
1. A skein of thread; as much thread as is tied<BR>
together; a tie.<BR>
2. In ships. a wooden ring fixed to a stay, to<BR>
confine the stay-sails; used in the place of a<BR>
grommet.<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
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> Anyone know how long brass grommets have been<BR>
around? Sure takes me a long time sewing a<BR>
reinforcement around a canvas tie hole....<BR>
><BR>
> Ymos,<BR>
> Magpie<BR>
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