Thank you for the words on women’s suffrage in Wyoming. As with most new ideas there have been some incorrect theories put out. The most notable one is along the lines that women got the right to vote because without them Wyoming would not have made the population required for statehood. Wikipedia has it wrong.
If you would like to read the entire story of the passage of the bill go to WyoHistory.org and the article on women’s suffrage. This site doesn’t make history pretty but it does get to the truth as we know it today.
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I hope everyone who visits Huntsville for the celebration stops by Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment. It is so much more than the reporter described. There are over 200 artists, places to eat and drink, a chocolate shop, a whiskey distiller, art galleries and live music events. Yes, I have a studio there and love being a part of this fantastic community.
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A friend and I recently returned from a weekend in Huntsville where we attended the three-day Adult Space Camp. We had no idea how involved this Alabama city was in the manned space program until we: 1. Stood beneath a massive Saturn rocket and learned how it had been designed, tested, built in pieces at Huntsville’s Marshall Spaceflight Center, loaded onto barges, floated down the Tennessee, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, shipped through the Gulf of Mexico and finally up the Atlantic Coast to Cape Canaveral for final assembly; 2. Toured Huntsville's enormous and well stocked space museums; 3. Suited up for simulated space walks to repair a damaged satellite in the cavernous Space Camp buildings that hold mockups of the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station; 4. Served as cap com or as on-board crew members during simulated launches; 5. Sat down for breakfast with NASA docent/scientists and engineers who had actually designed the lunar lander and built rockets for the manned space program with Wernher von Braun; 6. Took a tour of the actual mission control center for the International Space Station--and so much more. On our final day in town we explored the just opened Apollo exhibit and met with more docents who had worked on the moon landing program. Huntsville is a hidden gem and well worth a visit. Even if you don't go to Space Camp, the exhibits and museums are fantastic and the residents of this delightful city are welcoming and informative.
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It is rare for The Times to say anything nice about the south. Thanks for this piece.
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Like Mr. Moore, my father worked at Redstone Arsenal with the German scientists. He designed the guidance system on the Redstone, and was one of the earliest designers of the countdown system.
I am very proud of my father's accomplishments and cannot wait to bring my eight year old daughter to Huntsville so she can learn more about the grandfather she sadly never meet.
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