KRnuts, For the few of you that are old enough to remember the last century, I made a discovery this weekend while searching through the basement for old photographs. A while back someone had asked about Don Beachum's retract system. I knew that I had taken some shots of his plane at a KR Gathering in a previous century. Over the holiday break I got the machine from my dad to convert film to digital images and went hunting for the photos of Don's plane. I haven't found those photos yet but I did run across photos from the 1986 Tulsa, OK KR Gathering, the 1988 and 1989 Covington TN KR Gatherings, the 1990 Rough River State Park KY KR Gathering, and the 2001 Pine Bluff AK KR Gatherings. These photos have been uploaded to krgathering.org. They have been added to the links at the bottom of the home page. You can scroll down to the bottom to find them.
You will see that there is a note asterisked (*) to these links stating: "Photo quality for these Gatherings (1986 through 2001) are not too good. I found the photos in a box in the basement in 2010 and converted them to digital images from the original film. It might be good enough to jog the memory of some of us old timers about Gatherings gone by." Just in case some of you are wondering, there are only 250 days till the 2011 KR Gathering in Mount Vernon, IL on September 9-10, 2011! Regards, Bob Lee N52BL KR2 Suwanee, GA USA 92% done only 67% to go!
