Day 5: June 3, 2022
A Presentation Day
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Of course we milled around quite a bit, but only until JHA President Roger Bell began his opening remarks. Then Russell Rein explained the post office cancellation program he had arranged and the special post cards he was donating.
First up was Linda Knoll who spoke about "The Amazon Army" that was noted on that sign we saw yesterday at the Miners Hall Museum. The "army" was a group of women who marched to, among other things, block mine entrances while the miners were on strike in 1923. Roger Bell then returned to talk about "Postcards of the Jefferson Highway".

A break following Roger's presentation allowed everyone to get their postcards canceled with the special stamp after purchasing and applying postage. I mailed one of the two cards and kept the other one. Dr. Nick Gerlich's "Putting the Jefferson Highway on the Map", with some ideas on advancing awarness of the highway, finished out the morning

Lunch was across the street at The Lord's Diner which now occupies the former Jefferson Highway Garage. The meal included an edible "Pine to Palm" centerpiece on each table.
A few of us used some free time following lunch to visit the Veterans Memorial at Pittsburg State University. The memorial includes a half size replica of the Vietnam Memorial Wall that was once one of the "Moving Walls" but is now installed permanently at the university.
The last afternoon activity was a visit to Special Collections at the Pittsburg State University Library. Jefferson Highway Association Archives are stored there. Everything there was pretty cool but nothing -- for me personally -- was as cool as seeing one of my books in a real library for the first time.
The awards banquet filled the evening and I had a great seat for seeing and hearing but not for photographing. Once I'd sat through the first couple of awards without clicking a shutter, I decided to let the entire thing slip away with no attempt on my part to document anything. The only thing I took a picture of was something that had nothing to do with the banquet directly. It is an original Jefferson Highway sign that was found in a collection of trash. It was apparently made in Cincinnati but most of company name has been chipped away. I'm going to see if I can learn anything about it.
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