| MARCH 6, 2014 -- We held a Movie Night on an. 9. The theme was steam trains. Up first was “B & O’s 8,000 mile Birthday Party.” This film was made in the mid-1970s and is about the Chessie Steam Special. It takes place first in the locomotive shop from building a brand new locomotive number 2101 to the running of the train special through its 8,000 mile route. Lots of train whistles, plumes of smoke and steam, chugging, stops and starts. It was very enjoyable if you like steam trains.
The next film “Big Trains Rolling” was made in 1946 and was about how trains kept the country moving late in the 1940s by moving tons of freight and passengers by the railroads.
The last film “Snow on the Run” was produced in the early 1950s and is about the Southern Pacific Railroad’s efforts in the winters of 1951 and 1952 (some of the heaviest snowfall ever recorded) to remove snow from the tracks in the Sierra Nevada Mountain range by using giant steam powered rotary snow blowers, pushers and movers.
Our Jan. 23 meeting was postponed to Jan. 30. Susan Huizenga from the Wallingford Public Access TV spoke to our Grange about what WPAA-TV had to offer to help us promote the Grange and help provide media content for WPAA-TV. They recently received a grant for new equipment and another grant for a program that helps a military vet to do video media programming and taping. Our Grange was one of the organizations that was given a choice whether or not to participate in this new program. We didn’t have to decide that night to participate but they just wanted to show what they had to offer. It was suggested that our Feb. 27 and March 27 meetings would be good times for them to come and videotape them and then show them on their public access channel.
Mar. 8: “Vernal Equinox”
Mar. 27: Talk on Beekeeping by Jim Pyskaty, Open Meeting. The public is invited. |
