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The celebration was noticed as follows:
Celebration of the Life of Edwin A. Battison (1915-2009)
Historian, Machinist, and Vermonter
Horological and Small Machinery Curator at the Smithsonian Institution
Founding Director of the American Precision Museum
and
Franklin Museum of Nature and the Human Spirit
Collector of Finest Examples of Evolving Technologies
Useful Tools to Put Them Back Together
Books and Ephemera to Understand It All
Saturday August 29, 2009
Remembrance at 1 PM Celebration and Display from 2 to 4 PM
Informal Gathering Under a Tent
at the
Franklin Museum of Nature and the Human Spirit, Inc.
55 Ascutney Street, Windsor, Vermont 05089
On Site Parking
Display to include Steam Cars
Locomobile Serial No.1 and Stanley No.134 (chain drive) – Unassembled
His “Everyday” Cars
A 1910 Stanley Roadster and 1955 Volkswagen Single Cab Truck
Watches and Clocks:
Howard, Davis & Dennison Movements Serial Nos. 2 and 17
Goddard No. 4 in original Pair Case Rare Reverse Fusee Tourbillon
J.C. Brown with Pomeroy Movement Sanford’s Pull-up Shelf Clock
Early Hassam Tower Clock 18th Century Black Forest Cuckoo
Vermontonia and More
For more information go to www.FranklinMuseumInVermont.org
Or Call the Franklin Museum 802-674-2093
Jay Boeri 802-436-2521
Joan Combie 803-815-0630 Barbara Rhoad 802-674- 2326
I've just returned from this and--though I arrived late and into the remembrances of Battison, found the event and the place just as full of thught as could be. I knew, or knew of, a few of the fifty or so people there, and introduced myself to a large handful more. I introduced myself to 'Joe in NH,' who was, so far as I know, the only other person who corresponds here, who attended. Joe has already relayed some good Battison stories and I can tell you they are manifold, because Battison was such an interesting person in a number of different ways.
I--who knew people 'like' him, missed my chance of knowing him, largely because I often travel as an outsider and--when I knew he was making the American Precision Museum--could easily have found plenty to discuss with him but found it then easier to stay away. I think that's a kind of a lesson, and was a wrong step on my part. I would be shocked, however, if Battison didn't talk with a relative of mine, my wife's Aunt Bet (died in 2000 she was just a couple of years older than Battison), who had lived nearby Windsor (in Hartland Four Corners), from about 1946 till about 1972 and who, extremely interestingly and quite oddly, liked various old things and old machinery and knew everybody over there with similar interests. Herbert Ogden (a state senator from Hartland who ran a water powered cider mill) was mentioned a few times in relation to Battison today and I know Bet knew him for years. Ogden was stated to be so old fashioned conservative by another state senator, John Howland (who was a Windsor native and an elementary school chum of Battison's), that he seemed liberal to the more modern conservatives.
Battison, too, was sui generis.
The folks that knew him and are keeping his example--and some of his stuff--in front of us have their work cut out and they deserve a great deal of thanks for what they've done thus far.
Nice to meet you, Joe.
Celebration of the Life of Edwin A. Battison (1915-2009)
Historian, Machinist, and Vermonter
Horological and Small Machinery Curator at the Smithsonian Institution
Founding Director of the American Precision Museum
and
Franklin Museum of Nature and the Human Spirit
Collector of Finest Examples of Evolving Technologies
Useful Tools to Put Them Back Together
Books and Ephemera to Understand It All
Saturday August 29, 2009
Remembrance at 1 PM Celebration and Display from 2 to 4 PM
Informal Gathering Under a Tent
at the
Franklin Museum of Nature and the Human Spirit, Inc.
55 Ascutney Street, Windsor, Vermont 05089
On Site Parking
Display to include Steam Cars
Locomobile Serial No.1 and Stanley No.134 (chain drive) – Unassembled
His “Everyday” Cars
A 1910 Stanley Roadster and 1955 Volkswagen Single Cab Truck
Watches and Clocks:
Howard, Davis & Dennison Movements Serial Nos. 2 and 17
Goddard No. 4 in original Pair Case Rare Reverse Fusee Tourbillon
J.C. Brown with Pomeroy Movement Sanford’s Pull-up Shelf Clock
Early Hassam Tower Clock 18th Century Black Forest Cuckoo
Vermontonia and More
For more information go to www.FranklinMuseumInVermont.org
Or Call the Franklin Museum 802-674-2093
Jay Boeri 802-436-2521
Joan Combie 803-815-0630 Barbara Rhoad 802-674- 2326
I've just returned from this and--though I arrived late and into the remembrances of Battison, found the event and the place just as full of thught as could be. I knew, or knew of, a few of the fifty or so people there, and introduced myself to a large handful more. I introduced myself to 'Joe in NH,' who was, so far as I know, the only other person who corresponds here, who attended. Joe has already relayed some good Battison stories and I can tell you they are manifold, because Battison was such an interesting person in a number of different ways.
I--who knew people 'like' him, missed my chance of knowing him, largely because I often travel as an outsider and--when I knew he was making the American Precision Museum--could easily have found plenty to discuss with him but found it then easier to stay away. I think that's a kind of a lesson, and was a wrong step on my part. I would be shocked, however, if Battison didn't talk with a relative of mine, my wife's Aunt Bet (died in 2000 she was just a couple of years older than Battison), who had lived nearby Windsor (in Hartland Four Corners), from about 1946 till about 1972 and who, extremely interestingly and quite oddly, liked various old things and old machinery and knew everybody over there with similar interests. Herbert Ogden (a state senator from Hartland who ran a water powered cider mill) was mentioned a few times in relation to Battison today and I know Bet knew him for years. Ogden was stated to be so old fashioned conservative by another state senator, John Howland (who was a Windsor native and an elementary school chum of Battison's), that he seemed liberal to the more modern conservatives.
Battison, too, was sui generis.
The folks that knew him and are keeping his example--and some of his stuff--in front of us have their work cut out and they deserve a great deal of thanks for what they've done thus far.
Nice to meet you, Joe.