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CMP Work Weekend: May 13-15, 2005
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The majority of our 15 volunteers arrived on Friday.
The CMPI Committee had a meeting on the grounds before starting.
Plans were discussed, dimensions staked and marked. Metal detecting
was completed over the grounds.
The work for the weekend began by Linwood O’Neal
delivering the steel re-enforced concrete drain pipe. The new entrance
way and corners of the preliminary parking lot were constructed.
For the entrance drainage pipe, a trench was manually dug by our
crew. A delivery of red Maryland Crushed Run Gravel was spread
throughout the entrance way.
That evening, Wade played his guitar and was the
center of entertainment as he sang our Pt. Lookout songs and other
old time favorites.
Sleeping in tents and vehicles wasn’t comfortable,
but our ancestors never had one night’s comfort when they
were there. Atleast, early mornings afforded a beautiful pink sky
that had a battle flag in the center for us to gaze upon and
give us strength, not to mention the beautiful sunsets behind our
flag.
Saturday’s lunch was prepared (grilled cheeseburgers & hot
dogs) by Nikkie, Joyce and Patricia for the working crew.
Thanks to Grace Pratt for lending her lawn mower
w/pull cart and for baking/delivering one of her fabulous chocolate
cakes to the site! Thanks to Betty Mann for having a porta potty
delivered to the work site! A special thanks to Bob Harris for
the use of his tractor and to Aggregate Industries, Premier
Enterprises, Inc. and the Mechanicsville Farmers Market for their
donations
to the work weekend.
A hearty thank-you to each and every person who
came out to help. We appreciate every task, no matter how great
or how small...it’ll all come together when CMP becomes a
reality!
Those who showed up and started major construction
on our first work weekend were: Jim Dunbar, Dan Kesler, Billy Buck,
Steve DeFreytas, Bob Harris, Charles Harris, Wade
Harris, Linwood O'Neal, Nikkie Harris, Joyce Bennett, Grace Pratt,
and Patricia Buck!
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CMP Work Weekend:
May 25-29, 2006
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Ground was excavated, graded, raked, shoveled & compacted
for the entire parking lot, as well as the walkway to the statue
circle . Brush was burned. Millings was delivered and spread over
the filter fabric cloth we had previously set in place. BankRun
Gravel was spread for the parking lot. The monument circle has
been excavated & fill material graded . Pt. Lookout mementoes
will be made at Harmony Farm, from pine logs off the site, to be
used as a fundraiser.
A special thanks to Mr. Bubby Knott of Great Mills Trading Post
for the donation of his backhoe and milling;Jim Dunbar, for the
use of his dump truck, and for the sweat & toiled labor of
Jim Dunbar (MD) and Dan Kesler (PA).
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{Photos courtesy of Dan Kesler}
And the Work
Continues ...
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{Photos courtesy of Steve DeFreytas}
2007
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