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May/June 2013 The Vair Street JournalThe Newsletter of the Western Pennsylvania Corvair Club May/June 2013 INTERNET IMAGE Above: Next Meeting: 1966 Corsa July 23, 2013 Inside: 2013 Schedule North Park Lounge Club House • Rte 8 of Events - p.2 1/4 mile north of the Butler PA Turnpike Exit Never forget Dinner at 6:30 Meeting at 7:30 09-11-01 PAGE 2 THE VAIR STREET JOURNAL MAY/JUNE 2013 May 28, 2013 Board Meeting Minutes Officers Present: Jim Heatherington informed the Steve Puskas discussed plans for Jim Steigerwaldt, President members of a car show to be held on the Meadowcroft trip on June 22nd. Jim Heatherington, Treasurer Sunday, June 1st in Mars put on by the He will get details to the editor for Pat Greenwald, Secretary North Hills Historic Club. forwarding to members. Jim also reported on the tour that Steve also distributed information Board Members Present: he ran for the Vintage Chevy Club about the August 24th Butler County Don Baker earlier in May. Backroads Heritage Rally. That Don Cekus Jim Steigerwaldt started the information will be in the next journal. Bob Hieber discussion about the Clark’s ad printed Jim announced that the dates for Jim Madden in the journal. this year’s Idlewild event are July 8 -12. Steve Puskas Charles Lucas talked to Clarks and Don Baker distributed information Charles Lucas, Newsletter Editor they are waiting for us to give them a about the Vintage Grand Prix. The meeting was called to order by price. Don Cekus does not yet have a President Jim Steigerwaldt. It was moved, voted on, and date for the Victory Hill Car Show. The minutes of the March 26th passed that we will ask $125.00 for the Jack Bachman will talk to Tim meeting were approved as printed. ad to appear in five journal printings. Desmond about the blueberry trip. Jim Heatherington’s treasurer’s Charles will contact them with the Bob Hieber will plan the report showed a balance of $2,335.56 price. September 14th trip to the Johnny with another $500 to be returned to Charles also discussed an email Appleseed Festival in Lisbon, Ohio. the account when the money comes that he received from Kurt Foltz. Kurt Jim Madden will be working out in from the Dayton trip. The president would like the club to focus more on details for the September wine tour. asked how many would be attending. tech issues with the car more than Respectively submitted, He was assured that there would be social events. Charles will print a more than enough to cover the $500 request for members to send him tips deposit. that he will print in the Journal. Pat Greenwald 2013 Events Schedule Jul 7-14 ........... Vintage Grand Prix 16-20 ......... CORSA National Convention ........ Kalamazoo, MI 23 .............. Member Meeting .......................... North Park Club House 27 ............. Blueberry Trip ...................................................................................................................Tim Desmond Aug 3 ................ Victory Hill Car Show 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. .......................................................................Don Cekus 24 .............. Butler County Backroads Heritage Rally ............................................................................. Steve Puskas ? ................ Picnic Sep 14 .............. Johnny Appleseed Festival ............. Lisbon, OH .....................................................................Bob Hieber 24 .............. Member Meeting .......................... King’s in Harmarville 28-29 ......... Wine Tour .................................... Erie, PA or NY ...............................................................Jim Madden Oct. 4-6 ............. Air Force Museum ......................... Dayton, Ohio .................................................................... Al Friend Nov. 26 .............. Member Meeting ......................... North Park Club House Jan. 12, 2014 .... Holiday Party ................................ Grant’s Bar ...................................................................Jim Madden MAY/JUNE 2013 THE VAIR STREET JOURNAL PAGE 3 Meadowcroft Village & Rockshelter Story by Suzanne Heatherington/Group photo by Les Walter County so Jim Steigerwald (former state policeman and navigator extraordinaire) took the lead. We arrived at Meadowcroft at lunchtime and before going to the Visitor’s Center, we ate our picnic lunches under the park’s shade trees. The Center showed a film depicting the “people-ization” of the United States part of North America. The earliest people here were nomadic, traveling around as family units to find food and shelter throughout the year. As they traveled, they left evidence behind at their campsites. Enjoying their picnic lunch at Measowcroft are l to R: Don Cekus, Suzanne Heather- Up at the Rockshelter, a docent ington, Stephen Puskas, Jim Heatherington (along with additional films) told us and Jim Steigerwaldt. Les Walter is behind that this important site reveals the the lens. earliest evidence of human habitation archaeologist’s labels, and the actual in North America. It dates back 16,000 INTERNET IMAGE places where fire-pits had been years pre-dating the Clovis period Saturday June 22m 2013 established during various “ages” for (dating back 11,500 years) which had both warmth and food preparation. lanned and led by Stephen long been considered the earliest Some of these historical periods were Puskas, this was a wonderful evidence of people on this continent. represented by layers so thin they destination for our club. The Property owner Albert Miller P were excavated using razor blades in drive south into Washington County first discovered prehistoric artifacts procedures both exacting and mind- took us through the beautiful rolling here in 1955 in a groundhog burrow. numbing. In fact, the excavation hills that Pennsylvania is famous for. He realized the importance of these protocols used at Meadowcroft are Meadowcroft Village and the artifacts and instead of bragging still considered state-of-the-art and Meadowcroft Rockshelter are now around town about them, he carefully the site is widely regarded as one of under the auspices of the Heinz covered them over and searched the most carefully excavated sites in History Museum. The Village for a professional archaeologist to North America. has attracted tourists since its excavate the site. It took him 16 As Steve and Jim S. had recently establishment on the former Miller years to inspire professional interest visited here, the only ones in our farm. It consists of various buildings but because of his patience and group to climb the 60+ steps up to depicting activities associated with our caution, the site and its secrets the Rockshelter were Don Cekus and colonial heritage like blacksmithing, were kept safe from both looters Suzanne Heatherington. Both were spinning/weaving, etc. As it was and careless hobbyists. In 1973, Dr. very glad they had done it, as the quite hot, we didn’t plan to visit the James Adovasio from the University presentation there was both excellent Village; Steve’s goal was to show us of Pittsburgh came to the site and and fascinating. the Rockshelter archaeological site. agreed with Miller that this place had It was a beautiful drive and Meadowcroft Rockshelter is a natural the potential to provide information perhaps when the weather isn’t quite geological formation high above Cross about human habitation going back so hot/humid, we can return and Creek with a southern exposure and many thousands of years. (Even he, browse around the museum’s village excellent, almost cave-like, protection though, was astonished at the depth buildings. A big thank-you to Steve from the elements. of the site and the many thousands of Puskas for taking us to this interesting We started at King’s in Wexford; artifacts so far discovered.) place! our group included Don Cekus, Recent renovations to the Jim & Suzanne Heatherington, Jim Rockshelter’s enclosure mean that Many thanks to Suzanne Heatheington Steigerwald and Les Walter. Steve’s visitors can climb up to the site and Les Walter for their contributions navigational skills gave him some itself and view the excavation, to this article. trouble after we entered Washington ed. PAGE 4 THE VAIR STREET JOURNAL MAY/JUNE 2013 Wright Patterson-Dayton, Ohio Trip Update General Curtis LeMay and the B-52 Superfortress Source: “ BUF Bulletin” Newsletter of the B-52 Stratofortress Association - LeMay, by Barrett Tillman -- AACA Newsletter, June 2013 f any image represented the toward specific aircraft during his three cold war, it was the Boeing B-52 decades in uniform. However, Boeing I“Stratofortress.” No other aircraft so built everything significant to him thoroughly defined the era. Similarly, during that period: from the B-17 to the other than the B-29, it is also the B-29, B-47, B-52 and KC135. aircraft most closely identified with Lemay’s assessment of the B-52 Curtis LeMay. placed it far ahead of its predecessors. The Stratofortress began life The B-52 model cruised faster than immediately after World War II when the B-47 and twice as fast as the B-36, the army air forces requested proposals slightly exceeding the Peacemaker’s for an intercontinental bomber. The combat radius and easily out-distancing Convair B-36 was already contracted, the B-47. With in-flight refueling but revolutionary advances in aviation the B-52 achieved unlimited range technology clearly meant that the possibilities –– a true intercontinental “Peacemaker” would be surpassed bomber –– with a six man crew to The B-52 became operational
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