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• Sicily Island, Louisiana is not a tropical island, or surrounded by an ocean, sea or lake. It is surrounded by Deer Creek on the north, Bayou Macon and Tensas River swamp on the east, Bayou Louah and Lake Lovelace on the south and the Ouachita River to the west.

• Three exploring brothers, Richard, Thomas and George Lovelace, settled in the area in the 1760’s. They loved the beautiful scenery and lay of the land and named the area for the Mediterranean Island of Sicily.

• Popular Catahoula Curs were developed as a canine breed at Sicily Island. The dogs were bred from the Lovelace brothers’ Dalmations and Indian dogs in the area. They were named for Catahoula Parish.

• Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the most famous military leaders in history, is credited with the Louisiana Purchase. Due to its French heritage, Louisiana has parishes instead of counties. Napoleon was exiled twice: to Elba Island in the Mediterranean and later to St. Helena Island in the southern Atlantic. turn the page for more!

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UNUSUAL ISLANDS (continued): • Staten Island, a borough of New York City, is home to what was once the world’s largest landfill. Freshkills Landfill was established by the City of New York in 1948. The area was mainly coastal marshland and tidal creeks before it was filled in with garbage. At the peak of use, in 1986-87, the landfill had 680 employees and received up to 29,000 tons (26 million+ kg) of trash per day!

• Freshkills Landfill received its last garbage on March 22, 2001 and its transformation into a city park started in 2009. Freshkills Park will be about three times the size of Central Park, with 2,200 acres (890 ha). As the development of the park continues in phases over the next 30 years, future generations will know Staten Island as a beautiful place to play and relax rather than as a place for trash.

• A popular television series that ran for seven seasons on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network was Fantasy Island. From 1978 to 1984, Mr. Roarke (Ricardo Montalban), the handsome, debonair host greeted guests to the island and fulfilled requests for their fantasies. The very popular “little person,” (the acceptable term used by the Little People of America organization), Herve Villechaize, known as “Tattoo” on the show, would rush up the tower of the main cottage to ring the bell when guests arrived. His call, “De plane, De plane!” was heard at the beginning of each show for six seasons. After a salary dispute he left the show and a butler took his place for the final season.

• Fantasy Island was not filmed on an island but in various locations in California and Hawaii. The cottage where Tattoo rang the bell is at the Los Angeles Arboretum and Botanical Garden in Arcadia, California.

UNUSUAL ISLANDS (continued): • Another place named “Island,” is Island Park, Idaho. Called the “Longest Main Street in America,” the community extends from the Snake River north of Ashton, Idaho, to the Montana border. Island Park is popular for fishing, hunting, water sports and snowmobiling.

The average snowfall of 9 feet (2.74 m) makes the area a winter wonderland, while famous trout fishing is the biggest draw in warm weather.

• Hegura Island, Japan, is known for its female “free divers” (divers who deep sea dive without breathing equipment) known as “Ama.” For years the families involved in the business of Ama have rejoiced over the births of baby girls. Females are the ones who learn to dive somewhat miraculously as much as 82 feet (25 m) to harvest abalone. Through the years they started using goggles, flippers and wet suits but have never used oxygen tanks.

Their “tools” are “visual acuity, lung capacity and hunter instinct.”

• Hereditary rights determine who can be a part of the Ama business. Historical records show the claim to dive for abalone was bestowed on “female ancestors by Lord Maeda during the feudal Tokugawa era” in Japan from 1603-1867. An Ama interviewed on CBS Sunday Morning on February 9, 2014, was still diving at age 80!

• The fishing region of Thousand Islands, that stretches along the St. Lawrence River region of New York and Canada is where Thousand Island salad dressing was created.

Clayton, New York is considered the birthplace of the dressing, home of the Thousand Islands Inn. • The origin of the salad dressing has two stories passed down through history, both involving fishing guides in the region. Read about the salad dressing and the Thousand Islands area at www.visit1000islands.com.

• In the far northern part of Canada there is a chain of islands known as the Arctic Archipelago. There are 94 islands with Ellesmere Island being the farthest north and the tenth largest island in the world.

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UNUSUAL ISLANDS (Continued): • Ellesmere Island is only 497 miles (800 km) from the North Pole and 15 miles (25 km) from Greenland. It is a polar desert with an average annual precipitation of only 2 ¾ inches (70 mm), making it drier than the Sahara Desert!

• On the southern coast of Ellesmere Island, Grise Fiord is the northernmost permanent community in Canada with a hardy but small population of 148.

• An island with a population at the other end of the population spectrum is Java, Indonesia. It is the thirteenth largest island in the world and is home to 136 million people.

• Known for its millions of peppers instead of people is Avery Island, Louisiana. The island is one of five salt domes that rise out of the marshes of the Louisiana Gulf Coast.

This island is only 163 feet (49.68 m) above sea level.

• The McIlhenny Company and their acres of hot peppers and facilities for producing the famous TABASCO® products occupy most of Avery Island. The family-owned hot sauce company has been at the site since its founding in 1868.

• An island not known for hot peppers, but for beautiful flowers, red soil, shorelines, and a famous novel is Prince Edward Island (PEI). Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908

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For Advertising Call (307) 655-5095 RAYMOND BURR Raymond William Stacy Burr was born on May 21, 1917 in the small community of New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. He starred in many films and television shows but is most widely known for the roles of Perry Mason and Ironside in a long television career.

• Quite the story-teller, Burr apparently told many untruths about his own personal life. He claimed to have been married three times and that he had a son who died young.

By all accounts at least two of the marriages and the son were fabricated relationships.

• What is known as truth about Burr is that he could pretend to be a lawyer and a detective and proved that well in two long-running television shows.

• One of the earliest appearances that Burr is known for was in Alfred Hitchcock’s film, “Rear Window.”

• He is most widely known for his starring role as the heavy-weight burly attorney, Perry Mason, in the show by the same name that was broadcast nine seasons from 1957-66.

• The Perry Mason television show was based on the fictional writings of Erle Stanley Gardner, who was a practicing attorney for about 20 years. Gardner created the main character as well as Mason’s secretary, played by Della Street, and the private detective and investigator who made up the main cast of characters for the television series.

Gardner wrote the first Perry Mason stories in 1933. The last Perry Mason mystery was published three years after Gardner’s death in 1973.

• A year after the original Perry Mason series ended Burr returned to television as Ironside.

That series was about a police detective who became confined to a wheelchair in the first episode. It was on the air from 1967-75.

• It is sometimes reported (inaccurately) that Perry Mason never lost a case. However, Perry Mason did lose two cases: The Case of the Terrified Typist and The Case of the Deadly Verdict.

• Canada honored Raymond Burr, aka Perry Mason, with a postage stamp in 2008. He was one of four Canadians the postal service chose to honor for their achievements in Hollywood.

• The U.S. Postal Service also had a Perry Mason stamp. It was part of a series of stamps called “Early TV Memories,” issued on August 11, 2009.

• Collectors of Raymond Burr memorabilia seek out the stamps for their collections but also look for vintage copies of TV Guide. He was on the cover 14 times!

• Burr starred in numerous reprisals of his role as Perry Mason after the original series ended. There was The New Perry Mason series in 1973; a television movie, Perry Mason Returns in 1985; and more than 25 other Perry Mason appearances for Burr. The movie in the 1985-86 season was the second-highest rated television movie that year. One of the funniest appearances by Raymond Burr was in a spoof of his Perry Mason role on Airplane II, the Sequel in 1982.

• Burr had a great interest in two horticultural beauties: orchids and his favorite wine grape, Cabernet Sauvignon. One of his last ventures was the establishment of the Raymond Burr Vineyards in Sonoma County, California.

• Burr died on September 12, 1993 at his home in Sonoma, California after a battle with cancer.

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PENCILS Before pencils, ancient Romans used a writing instrument called a stylus to make light marks on papyrus, an early form of paper.

When graphite was discovered in Borrowdale, England in 1564, darker marks were made possible leading to what is still called a pencil.

• The term “lead” pencil has been used throughout history but was actually never accurate. Lead has never been used as the marking material inside pencils. However, lead was used in the exterior paint of pencils and caused health problems when pencils were chewed or put in the mouth.

• In the early discovery years, pencils were not covered with wood. People would use cloth or some other covering to hold the graphite to write. When just held by hand, graphite turns hands and fingers black.

• The birthplace of mass-produced pencils was Nuremberg, Germany. One of the earliest known makers of pencils was Kaspar Faber, a cabinetmaker in Nuremberg, in 1761.

He glued narrow sticks of graphite between small, smooth pieces of wood. He started the Faber-Castell Company.

• Faber’s grandson, Lothar, used water and then steam power to increase production and consistency in making pencils. He created standards for pencil size and hardness grades in 1839. Lothar is credited with the invention of hexagonal pencils and the first brand-name writing instruments, marked A.W. Faber. The Faber-Casteel Group is, still today, the world’s largest pencil manufacturer, producing approximately 1.8 billion wood-cased pencils annually.

• The first factory that produced pencils was in Keswick, Cumberland, United Kingdom in 1832. The Pencil Museum in Keswick is the home of the “world’s first pencil.”

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• When the United States entered World War I, the company could no longer send wood to Germany. At that time, Musgrave started the Musgrave Pencil Company. His success led to other pencil companies opening in the area. In the 1950s, Tennessee Governor Buford Ellington named Shelbyville, “Pencil City, USA.” • Some extra pencil trivia: Two common derogatory uses of the word pencil found their way into the English language years ago: pencil-pusher means “office worker;” and pencil-neck means “weak person.” The first term came about in 1881, while the second was first recorded in 1973.

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