ID:	5	Reunion Information?:False
Author:	Scott Bushnell
Date Entered:	7/26/2007
News Item Title::	2003 News Letter
News Item Text::	Bushnell Geneology Newsletter 2003 issue {Use your Browser's Back Button to go to Site Main Page) BUSHNELL 2003 Table of Contents In Memory and News (Immediately below) History Cemetery News Couple of the Year & Family Recipe In Memory Of: Wilbur Bushnell 1904-2002 Audrey Dodes 1913-2002 Dorothy Bushnell 1925-2002 BUSHNELL NEWS Greetings to all Bushnells, Thank-you to all for sending us Bushnell history. We have really enjoyed sharing it with other Bushnells. And thanks to all who have sent donations for postage & ink. This has helped a lot to get this newsletter out to Bushnells. Thank-you!! We will be putting this newsletter on hold for a while, to be able to send you news of the upcoming 2007 reunion at Bushnell Park, Hartford, CT. If you would like to help with reunion preparations, please contact us at: *Susan Troub, troub7@aol.com, 3818 N. 78th Drive, Phoenix AZ 85033-3602, (623) 849-5165. *Martha L. Beyersdorf, tweedrvr@aol.com, PO Box 772, Pittsfield, VT 05762, (802) 746-8051. The big 2007 Bushnell reunion will soon be upon us. We need everyone's help to find more Bushnells. We don't want anyone to miss the reunion. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------- For the 2007 reunion we will be making heirloom quilts. We should be able to make several quilts before the reunion. One quilt will be of historic places, another quilt will be of loved ones who have touched our lives. We also need more people to help with assembling the quilts. Donations are needed to help with costs of materials to start the quilts. Please send your quilt panels, donations, or offers of help to: *Susan Troub, troub7@aol.com, 3818 N. 78th Drive, Phoenix AZ 85033-3602, (623) 849-5165. *Martha L. Beyersdorf, tweedrvr@aol.com, PO Box 772, Pittsfield, VT 05762, (802) 746-8051. ------------------------------------------------------- We encourage all Bushnells to obtain for their genealogy collection the 1945 Bushnell Genealogy Book by George E. Bushnell. It dates back to the 1400s and contains lots of history! This big book can be purchased through: Higginson Book Company, 148 Washington Street, P.O. Box 778, Salem Massachusetts 01970 (978)745-7170 The price is softcover: $41.50 or hardcover $52.50 in either case plus $4.75 for shipping. http://www.higginsonbooks.com, mailto://higginsn@cove.com ------------------------------------------------------- The 1945 Bushnell Genealogy Book by George E. Bushnell is also available on CD. Go to http://www.digital-editions.com; and have your credit card handy. The price for this searchable CD (which also includes additional Bushnell information not in the original book) is $50 plus $15 shipping. The CD is published by Richard Bingham, 40 Senaca Place, Oceanport, N.J. 07757 mailto://bigham@monmouth.com ------------------------------------------------------- For all Bushnells who want to chat on-line, there is a list set up for us at: Bushnell-L@rootsweb.com http://archives.rootsweb.com/th/index/BUSHNELL ------------------------------------------------------- Help us keep costs down. If you have received a paper copy of this newsletter through the US Postal Service, then we don't have your e-mail address. Please send your e-mail address to Troub7@aol.com. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------- Quote: We respect our ancestors' achievements by standing on their shoulders and seeing farther, not by crouching in their shadows and seeing less. Let's do something to inspire our own grandchildren. That's what the ancestors did. -Donald Creighton (Sep. 27, 1999) Bushnell History Lewis & Clark Centennial Seal 1903 - designed by Grant Bushnell Grant C. Bushnell, who designed the official seal for the Lewis and Clark Centennial, was a draftsman in the engineering department of the O. R. & N. Co. at Portland. He was in Ohio in 1867, and came to Portland in 1889, entering the service of the O. R. & N. Co. in the auditing department, from which he was transferred a year later to the engineering department. Mr. Bushnell inherited artistic talent, and when quite young displayed marked ability in that direction, but from lack of guidance made no attempt to develop it until he received a short course of study from the well-known artist W. E. Rollins, but aside from this has relied on his own ability. Originality of conception proving his strong point, he had for some time confined his efforts to the study and production of original advertising designs. Mr. Bushnell had produced several very striking designs along these lines, and was awarded the prize offered by the Oregon T. P. A. for the most original design for a souvenir badge to be worm by delegates to the T. P. A. convention. The seal, a cut of which is herewith shown, is a very artistic and suggestive design, which reflects great credit on the clever artist who produced it. Lewis and Clark still intrigue 200 years after epic journey - New York Times, 1-18-03 Charlottesville, Va. - All this week the smell of buffalo hide and wool has permeated the home of Thomas Jefferson, a man who never ventured farther west than the Shenandoah Valley but dreamed of filling in the blanks on the map still labeled Parts Unknown. In asking a nation of 5 million people to send an expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to the edge, Jefferson launched a journey that would be ridiculed, puzzled over, even forgotten. But this weekend, the 200th anniversary of Jefferson's request to Congress for money that would pay for a cross-continental odyssey by two Virginians, a Black slave, a teenage Indian and her baby, a motley crew and a dog named Seaman, Lewis and Clark have never been more popular. Every new nugget about the trek is devoured by enough citizen scholars to fill a stadium. Over the next four years, more than 30 million people are expected to retrace some part of the 8,000-mile journey, state and federal officials say. They will likely walk on hard prairie ground where Lewis cut his feet on cactus, paddle over the river where Sacagawea salvaged precious cargo when a pirogue nearly went under, and stare out at the Pacific surf that prompted Clark's poorly spelled but stirring "Ocian in view! O! the joy." Perhaps not since the bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence 27 years ago, officials say, have so many Americans been moved to connect to a part of their past. "Willa Cather said there are really only two stories, and we all tell versions of them over and over," said James P. Ronda, who will be giving the keynote speech at Monticello on Saturday "One ... is the story of the journey." The Monticello gathering, the first of 15 Lewis and Clark commemorative events from here to the Pacific over the next four years, has drawn nearly 5,000 people, including representatives from 130 tribes, scholars, the Sierra Club and the Army Corps of Engineers, and hundreds of otherwise average people who live to dress in buckskin and eat pickled ham. This renaissance for all things Lewis and Clark is a rare feat for icons of the West, where heroes have been hammered by revisionism. Lewis-Clark bicentennial salute begins - Associated Press, 1-19-03 Charlottesville, Va. - The three-year celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition formally opened Saturday at the home of Thomas Jefferson, the president who set the exploratory mission in motion. The event at Monticello marked the 200th anniversary of Jefferson's letter, written at the estate outside Charlottesville, asking Congress to appropriate $2,500 to fund the expedition to explore the recently acquired Louisiana Purchase. "This is where it all started, in the mind of Thomas Jefferson," said author and filmmaker Dayton Duncan, co-producer with Ken Burns on The West and Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, the PBS series. "This was mission control." About 3,000 people attended the event. Speakers lauded Jefferson's foresight and noted that the expedition's success depended on the help of American Indian tribes who lived in the areas that Lewis and Clark explored. Amy Mossett, co-chair of the Circle of Tribal Advisors to the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial and a member of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara nation, paid tribute to Sacagawea, the Mandan woman who served as guide and interpreter to the expedition. Interior Secretary Gale Norton said the bicentennial gives Americans "a chance to think like Thomas Jefferson ... to envision what America can become in the future." Opinions - AZ Republic, 1-26-03 - submitted by Delbert Earle, Surprise AZ Regarding the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial article on Monday: Sacagawea was not of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Indian Nation. She was a Shoshone from central Idaho, near today's town of Salmon. Her brother was one of the local Shoshone chiefs who helped Lewis and Clark obtain horses and guides. Sacagawea and her sister as teenagers had been captured by a Hidatsa raiding party in Montana. Her "husband," Toussaent Charbonneau, a French Canadian trapper and member of the Lewis and Clark party, had won her in a bet from the warriors who had captured her. This information is from Undaunted Courage by Stephan E. Ambrose, plus local historical markers near Salmon, Idaho. Congress approves plan to alter nickel's design -AZ Republic, 4-17-03 Washington - The design of the nickel likely will change for the first time since 1938 in honor of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition, under legislation passed in Congress last week. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States, will remain on the nickel's obverse, or front side. But the legislation allows the replacement of the familiar ponytailed profile of Jefferson with a likeness that recognizes his role in the Louisiana Purchase and the exploration of that territory by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. The purchase and expedition took place during Jefferson's presidency. HUMOR - It seemed a little odd when the local cemetery raised the prices of its burial lots and blamed it on the cost of living Thanksgiving and the Mayflower: A lot of Bushnells have direct family ties to at least one of the 102 Pilgrims who sailed to the New World on the Mayflower and landed at Plymouth Rock 383 years ago. Through the centuries, the children of those first colonists have mixed with a continuous flow of newcomers, enriching the nation's gene pool and helping to define our diversity. And it all started -- at least symbolically -- on the very first Thanksgiving. The original Pilgrims established strong ties to the Indians they found living here. If Indian guide Squanto had not taught them how to plant corn, the settlers probably would have died of starvation during the first harsh winter in Massachusetts. And to recognize that act of generosity, the 50 or so colonists who survived until the harvest season invited 90 men from the Wampanoag tribe to join them in the first Thanksgiving celebration. Mayflower Facts: 1620 - The year the Pilgrims came to what is now the United States aboard a small cargo ship, the Mayflower. 102 - The number of passengers known to have been aboard the Mayflower. 32 - The number of children and other young people among the passengers. 2 - The number of passengers who died on the voyage across the Atlantic. 2 - The number of live children born on the ship before it reached Plymouth. (One baby was born at sea, the other while the Mayflower was anchored briefly in Cape Cod harbor. A third baby was stillborn.). 0 - The number of passenger cabins. In those days, merchant ships were not set up for the comfort of passengers. - They would have slept in hammocks or paid the ship's carpenter to build cabins or bunks for them. 65 - The number of days it took for the Mayflower to sail from England to America. 41 - The number of men who signed the Mayflower Compact, establishing laws in the New World. 50 - Approximate number of Pilgrims who died of the "great sickness" and harsh conditions during the first winter in the new land. 1621 - The year Samoset, an Abnaki Indian from Maine, walked into the Pilgrims' village shouting, "Welcome, Englishmen!" 3 - The number of days the first feast of Thanksgiving lasted in October 1621. - Wampanoags and colonists shared venison, duck, turkey, clams, shellfish, corn pudding, pumpkin, dried berries and other local edibles. 9 - The number of women and teenage girls who prepared that three-day Thanksgiving feast for 140 hungry people. 35 million - The number of Americans today who are direct descendants of the first Mayflower Pilgrims. That's 12% of our population. Ethnic Bushnells: Some Bushnells received their names from the New Iberia, Louisiana Bushnells who were plantation and slave owners. At the time of the emancipation proclamation they gave their freed slaves the right to adopt the Bushnell name, as otherwise they had no known last name. Thus the origin of the black Bushnells in America. “Families are joined by marriage & adoption and never parted by death or divorce.” Turtle To Swim Again - Harbor News, CT, Jan. 23, 2003 -by Becky Coffey OLD SAYBROOK -- The year was 1776. With English warships in New York Harbor, the revolutionaries launched a new secret weapon against the British--The Turtle. The Turtle, invented by David Bushnell of Connecticut, was a one-man submarine designed to move through the water, submerge, and then drill a screw into the keel of a British warship. Attached to this screw by a short line was an explosive mine. The Turtle worked as designed in its first foray against a ship in New York Harbor, but unfortunately the pilot, Sergeant Ezra Lee, had great difficulty drilling the screw into the hull of the ship. The submarine had succeeded as a boat but failed as a weapon. No blueprints of the submarine's design were ever found, but strikingly similar accounts of its design appear in letters of those who observed the craft in the original pilot's written accounts and in a letter sent by David Bushnell in 1787 to Thomas Jefferson in Paris. It is these written accounts that will guide the vocational education students at Old Saybrook High School as they develop blueprints for their own full-scale working Turtle. Under the leadership of their teacher, Fred Frese, the students will build a full-size working Turtle by the end of fall 2003 that should be ready for field testing in the waters of the Connecticut River in the Spring of 2004. "The biggest challenge will be focusing the students on reading and using the descriptive information in David Bushnell's 1789 letter to arrive at the design," said Frese. Frese, a professional boat builder, designed and built the only other working full-scale replica of the Turtle, a replica that now sits in the Connecticut River Museum in Essex. Historian, writer, and film producer Joe Leary was the test pilot of that Turtle replica that they built together 25 years ago. This time around, former Navy SEALs associated with the Navy Undersea Warfare Center are vying for the privilege to pilot the Turtle on its first voyage. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center plans to equip the Turtle with special sensors and teledata devices to monitor the test voyages and mock battles. The Center also hopes to learn more about the potential to use these sensors and devices in defense of the nation's ports. The entire design and construction process of the Turtle and its field tests will all be filmed in real-time using web-cams. The National Maritime Historical Society plans to have the video information and weekly lesson plans available through its website for access by students and their teachers all over America via Internet connections. "Our goal with this project is to teach students about the history of this area during the Revolutionary War and to try to solve the mystery of why the Turtle was a great submarine but a bad weapon," said David Allen. Jim Lipscomb, an Emmy Award-winning producer and director of documentary films working with The History Channel, was scheduled to visit Old Saybrook High School last week to begin his work to develop a documentary on the Turtle project. The History Channel has also agreed as part of this project to provide Old Saybrook High School's audio-visual department with technical assistance to produce their own video documentation of the process. In the spring of 2004, the student-built vessel will be field tested in the New York Harbor against the hulls of tall ships including the H.M.S. Bounty and the H.M.S. Rose. The Turtle project was organized by David Allen, director of education for the National Maritime Historical Society, to help students to understand an important milestone in America's maritime history and its historical context. The Turtle project has benefited from generous assistance and sponsorship from The History Channel, the Navy Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, Rhode Island, and Leighton Lee III, who has contributed $10,000 towards this effort. For more information, visit the National Maritime Historical Society website at www.seahistory.org. Cemetery News Military Veterans burying more of their own ---- Associated Press 11-10-02 Bushnell, Fla. - Three gray-haired men point their military rifles skyward and squeeze off shots that echo through the soaring oak trees of the Withlacoochee State Forest. Two other members of the volunteer honor guard ceremoniously fold an American flag and snap to a salute during taps. They stand by as the casket bearing yet another military veteran is wheeled off for burial in the vast Florida National Cemetery. At six special shelters on the cemetery grounds full military funerals often are happening simultaneously, all day long. They are conducted at a rate of about 30 every weekday. On Tuesday, the day after Veterans Day, more than 40 are scheduled. More often than ever, the caskets hold World War II veterans, who are now dying at the rate of nearly 1,000 a day in America, according to federal estimates. "Sometimes it gets to you," said Al Williams, 74, a veteran of World War II and the Korean War whose honor guard does as many as five funerals a day. "I've lost a lot of friends." The constant activity at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs cemetery is a grim reminder of just how fast an entire generation is disappearing. "It's sad that a lot of history is not going to be here in the next 15 or 20 years," said John Heufel, chaplain of the Dade City Veterans of Foreign Wars post. The Bushnell cemetery, opened in 1988, has become the final resting place for more than 58,000 veterans and family members. It's now among the most active in the country. Funerals for veterans of the Korean War, fought from 1950-53, also are occurring more often. The VA estimates that most World War II and Korean War vets will be gone after 2008. Registry honors WWII stalwarts ----- Associated Press, July 4, 2003 Washington - Americans who served in World War II or supported the war effort at home can now add their names to an online registry. Organized by the American Battle Monuments Commission, the Web-based list is an effort to extend recognition to as many as 16 million Americans who served in uniform during the war. It is being launched almost a year before the dedication of the first national monument to World War II veterans, slated for May 29, 2004 - next Memorial Day weekend - on the National Mall. The registry is open not only to veterans but also to "any American that served in the armed forces or contributed to the war effort on the home front, whether in factories and shipyards or farms and neighborhoods," the commission said in a news release. The registry is accessible on the National World War II Memorial Web site, www.WWIImemorial.com, or by calling the commission toll-free at 1-800-639-4WW2. Anyone can submit names and registration is free. Previous efforts to gather names for the registry "barely scratched the surface," collecting only 1.3 million names over the past several years, said spokesman Mike Conley. Of those, nearly 700,000 names were submitted by the public. The rest were culled from public records, including casualties listed by the National Archives and Records Administration and the commission's own lists Couple of the Year Bob & Nan Bushnell, MI For providing the Bushnells with a great website - Bushnell.homestead.com. Bob, our “Detroit Guy”, has helped many cousins unite. Thank-you Bob & Nan! To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root. -Chinese proverb Family Recipe Recipe of a Doer: The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer . - Nolan Bushnell *We are putting together a family recipe book for the 2007 reunion. Please send your favorite family recipes to: Susan Troub, Troub7@aol.com, 3818 N. 78th Drive, Phoenix AZ 85033-3602. Quote: People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. -Edmund Burke (1790) Humor: Jacob, age 92, and Rebecca, age 89, are all excited about their decision to get married. They go for a stroll to discuss the wedding and on the way they pass a drugstore. Jacob suggests they go in. Jacob addresses the man behind the counter: "Are you the owner?" The pharmacist answers "Yes". Jacob: "We're about to get married. Do you sell heart medication?" Pharmacist: "Of course we do." Jacob: "How about medicine for circulation?" Pharmacist: "All kinds." Jacob: "Medicine for rheumatism, scoliosis?" Pharmacist: "Definitely." Jacob: "How about Viagra?" Pharmacist: "Of course." Jacob: "Medicine for memory problems, arthritis, Jaundice?" Pharmacist: "Yes, a large variety. The works." Jacob: "What about vitamins, sleeping pills, Geritol, antidotes for Parkinson's disease?" Pharmacist: "Absolutely." Jacob: "You sell wheelchairs and walkers?" Pharmacist: "All speeds and sizes." Jacob: "Ok then! We'd like to register here for our wedding gifts." Thought for today: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by moments that take our breath away. Go Back to Top of Newsletter