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Lacking the modern equipment available today, the effort required a tremendous amount of paid physical labor and planning, as the construction had to take place seasonally adobe bricks could not be left out in the rain, as they would have melted to mud.
Over the course of describing the reconstruction of the fort, in several installments, I hope to convey to the reader just what it takes to make and lay the bricks and gather the other materials required for fenestration and the roof structure.
The task was formidable, and Goicoechea was able to carry it out effectively with a cooperative labor force that included a mix of soldiers and local Chumash Indians. I came across only one hostile incident in the records, when a soldier disobeyed a Goicoechea order, was pulled down from a wall, arrested and sentenced to jail time.
The Grand Rapids Public Library is honoring its sesquicentennial in 2021. Author: 13 ON YOUR SIDE Staff Published: 2:05 PM EST January 14, 2021 Updated: 2:05 PM EST January 14, 2021
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan Since 1871, the Grand Rapids Public Library has provided the city with outstanding service, innovative programs, and expansive collections.
The 150th anniversary will be a year-long celebration, culminating in a birthday celebration on Dec. 21, 2021.
The 150 will kick off with My Library Story. Public libraries have a special place in people’s hearts. From childhood memories to transformational experiences, each story is unique. GRPL’s Grand Rapids History and Special Collections Department is collecting the community’s stories about the library.
Our Polluted Planet
Environmental contamination claims 9 million lives a year, and it’s going to get much worse. So BC has hired the acclaimed epidemiologist and public health champion Philip Landrigan ’63 to launch a new program and take on this global killer.
By Shannon Fischer
In 1948, 20 people in Donora, Pennsylvania, died from a toxic smog that enveloped the mill town for five long days. Twenty-one years later, Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River, glutted with factory waste, burst into flame and not for the first time, either. That was how it used to be in the United States: the city air was thick and acrid, asbestos lined our buildings, Lake Erie was a “cesspool,” according to