This week's thread

The past few days I have been doing some digital grunt work; scanning a couple hundred pages (and assorted inserted documents) from the 1917-1934 Afton Board of Education minutes. It is a nicely disciplined task ... for posterity.

There is an enterprising stretch in there when an ACS building project added a gym, auditorium, and plumbing (1927), and then the consolidation of over a dozen one-room school house into the central school along with the purchase of the first fleet of four buses (1932). Difficult not to stop an read the entries while trying move through them.

Then last night, my brother links me to a video about the construction of Hoover Dam (1931-1936) where the word enterprising finds its ultimate example; the sheer vision, moxy, and brawn of American know-how and industry carving out an icon to modernity.

And I guess I'm wondering if Afton's own modest climb into the 1930s wasn't just another reflection of a country and a time coming into its own.