Well done, W0HXS!!!
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Ensor volunteer then manager Larry Woodworth gets his due. "Road Warrior" Once Traveled Route 66
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While the amateur radio community knows Marshall Ensor, W9BSP, as a pioneer in the field who was instrumental in introducing many to a hobby that ultimately enabled them to acquire marketable skills, he was first and foremost a teacher and, specifically, an instructor in the manual arts.
In the 1920s, '30s and '40s, if a teacher in the Midwest was going to get away for a vacation of any length, he or she had to take that much-desired "California trip" during the summer months when school wasn't in session.
"Farm Girl" Ham was Stuck on Stamps
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"Loretta never married and didn't renew her 1972 license but remained a farm girl until 1991." - from the 2015 Ensor Park and Museum promotional video written and narrated by Larry Woodworth, W0HXS
After becoming associated with the operation of Ensor Park and Museum in Olathe in the early 2000s, museum manager and Santa Fe Trail Amateur Radio Club member Larry Woodworth discovered that Loretta Ensor, 9UA/W9UA, who never left the family farm where she and her older brother Marshall, 9BSP/W9BSP, were raised, was a stamp collector. A philatelist, if you will.
Larry happened to share that 'tidbit' with me several weeks ago when I was out at the eight-acre complex one afternoon to have a look around, then, largely blaming himself, he went on to lament the lack of attention Loretta had received overall in the latest color brochure that had been produced to let the general public know about Ensor Park and Museum and what visitors can expect to see there upon their arrival at the place.