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“From Agassiz Correctional Camp: Camp Puppeteers entertain youngsters,”  THE CHILLIWACK PROGRESS, Wednesday, November 3, 1971. 3A. ---- The Camp Puppeteers were activated at the Agassiz Correctional Work Camp during July of this year. 

The Camp Superintendent, W. A. Hall, asked Cliff Sherlock, a former professional puppeteer and now a staff member at the camp, to form the group as a a therapeutic activity for the men. Since that time the club performed weekly shows for the Easter Seal Camp for crippled children at Chehalis during the summer months, the Agassiz Raspberry Social, the Chilliwack fall fair, and at several schools and community functions. 

On Sunday, they performed at the Kiwanis Halloween Party at the Chilliwack Armories before more than 400 youngsters. Because of the large crowd it was was necessary to put on two shows. 

The club consists of 15 men who are accompanied by three musicians from the camp when required. At present they have a repertoire of four plays with a further two plays in the process of being prepared for the Christmas season.

Several bookings have been accepted by the club within the upper Fraser Valley area tion. between now and Christmas, but they are still open for more engagements from any interested group or organization.

The men gladly donate their talents to any community social or charitable function but are also seeking private commercial engagements. 

Any person, business, community group or charitable organization wishing to contact The Camp Ruppeteers may do so by telephoning Superintendent Hall at Agassiz 796-2712 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday to Friday. 

CAMP PUPPETEERS entertain children Sunday with a Halloween skit at Chilliwack Armory at a children's' party sponsored by Chilliwack Kiwanis Club. Puppet show was staged by inmates from Agassiz Correctional Camp. Some 450 youngsters attended the affair,

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Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. From Terra: The Member's Magazine of The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Volume 22, No. 6. July/August 1984.

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Screech Owl (1902) by Louis Agassiz Fuertes.

New York Fish and Game Commission.

University of Washington

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Feathursday Pheasants!

This week we bring you a few Pheasants from around the world as published in the 1936 publication Pheasants Their Lives and Homes by the eminent zoologist and explorer William Beebe, published in Garden City, N.Y. by Doubleday, Duran & Company under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society, where Beebe was director of the Department of Tropical Research.

In 1910, Beebe led a major, 17-month, worldwide expedition for the New York Zoological Society to document the world's pheasants. "The urgency of this journey sprang from the fact that the members of this most beautiful and remarkable group of birds are rapidly becoming extinct, so that the record of their habits and surroundings, which is important to understanding their structure and evolution, will soon be lost forever."

The resulting publication was the 4-volume A Monograph of the Pheasants, published in London by H. F. Witherby for the New York Zoological Society, 1918-1922. The abridged version, Pheasants Their Lives and Homes, first came out in 1926. This is the 1936 edition. The images shown here are by naturalist artists Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Henrik Grønvold, Henry Jones, Charles R. Knight, and George Edward Lodge.

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More for #LoveHornbillsDay:

"Crested Hornbill" now known as the Silvery-Cheeked Hornbill (Bycanistes brevis)

painted in 1926 by Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927), reproduced in Album of Abyssinian Birds and Mammals (1930) by the Field Museum. Via BHL.

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Louis Agassiz Fuertes - The Raven and Skulls. Final page in 'The Cornellian' (magazine) of 1896.

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Bahama Duck, Galapagos Island Duck, African Red-Billed Duck (1922-1926) | Louis Agassiz Fuertes | A natural history of the ducks v.2

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Pine Grosbeak. Fuertes.  This is an early Fuertes and I think if you remember that at the time he would have painted it, presumably sometime within the first decade of so of the 20th century, there was really on artist doing realistic paintings of birds in North America, you can understand the support he quickly had from the ornithological community.  And unlike Brooks, Fuertes was well positioned geographically, being located near Cornell University, and close to the epicentre of natural history science of that era.  It’s a translucent watercolour, very “field-guide-ish” with neutral lighting and simplified environment.

art by louis agassiz fuertes

text by barry kent mackay

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Gadwall

(Anas Strepera) Adult male in breeding plumage; female mottled brown

Found throughout United States and Canada, as far north as Lesser Slave Lake, and in Europe and Asia, but most abundant in western United States. Also called Gray Duck. The white spot on the wing, conspicuous in flight, is a good identification mark in any plumage.

No. 3 Fuertes Waterfowl and Game Birds. copyright 1963 by Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology. Reproduced from original, unpublished painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Courtesy of Church and Dwight Co. Litho in U.S.A. by Niagara Litho, Buffalo.

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"Fraser Valley Milk Producers To Picnic at Cultus Lake Saturday," Chilliwack Progress. July 12, 1934. Page 1. ---- Saturday next is the date and Cultus Lake Park the place of the annual picnic held by members of the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association comprising nearly 4000 members. Commenting on the forthcoming picnic, "Butter-Fat," the official publication of the F.V M. P. A, says there is a popular song, the theme of which is that more happiness is possible in this world through frequently mixing with our fellow beings, thus "The More We Get Together the Happier We'll Be." Again quoting from "Butter-Fat" the following is the program of events:

12 a.m. - A good old-fashioned basket picnic (bring your own), milk and hot water provided free.

1 p.m. Speeches from the band stand and music amplified by loud speakers. Exhibition of Scottish dancing and the picnic will be graced by the attendance of the Queen of the Cherry Carnival. Mins Ella Marcy (the F.V.M.P.A. candidate at the recent festival together with her newly elected princesses.

2 p.m. Tug-o-war championship, pull-off between several powerful teams, including the present title holders of Ladner, also Matsqui, Langley and other teams. Children's sports under the direction of A. R. R. Craig, of Agassiz.

2:30 p.m. - Dancing in pavilion.

3 p.m. - Softball game between F.V.M.P.A. Utility Plant and Associated Dairies teams. Boating and bathing.

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JEAN AGASSIZ Geological Sketches (1870)

The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive the light, there must have been light to enter it.

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Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (pseudonym, Actaea; December 5, 1822 – June 27, 1907) was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was an author and illustrator of natural history texts as well as a co-author of natural history texts with her husband, Louis Agassiz, and her stepson Alexander Agassiz.

Agassiz accompanied her husband on his journey to Brazil in 1865-6 and on the Hassler expedition in 1871–2; of the second, she wrote an account for the Atlantic Monthly. She published A First Lesson in Natural History (Boston, 1859) and edited Geological Sketches (1866).

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Day 30 of A Video A Day For August 2024

Driving west down Highway 7 through a little bit of fog and emerging out the other side. That's Mount Woodside in the distance.

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Illustration by Louis Agassiz Fuertes of greyhounds taken from ‘The Book of Dogs’ (1919).

The National Geographic Society.

Smithsonian Libraries.

Wikimedia.