Some Of My "Projects"

	click here to read my research concerning Private Samuel Mardis Company B Fifteenth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry and his participation in the Battle of Shiloh during the Civil War.
	click here to read about the Conway Park sign project.
	click here to read about Japan's use of balloon bombs in WWII

Some Of My "White Papers":

• The airlines servicing Des Moines are not entirely to blame for the high cost of airline tickets here.......the airport administration should clean up it's act and stop wasting money.
• Building a "white elephant" airport to accomodate a "flat" airline passenger activity .
• Samuel Mardis and the Civil War. The story of one Iowan who left his young wife and several children to enlist in the United States Army, fight in the battle at Shilo and die of mumps on a hospital ship soon thereafter. And, what happened to the family he left behind.
• A look into the inner workings of Charitable Foundations in Iowa
• Why the Des Moines Airport should be owned and managed by a regional airport authority.
• Family history concerning the founding and operation of a coal mine between Colfax and Prairie City , Iowa.in the 1920s.
• Research into the history surrounding the 1843 Indian Line running through Painted Rocks Development on Lake Red Rock (north of Knoxville and south of Monroe) which came into being when the federal government conducted an engineering survey to pinpoint the location of the line dividing Iowa into "White Territory" on the east and "Indian Territory" on the west.
• 40 Page Booklet, History and Background, Prairie City Coal Company (Located between Colfax and Prairie City, Iowa) Organized, incorporated, operated and Shaft sunk using Spring Pole method By CHARLES CONWAY, Jr In 1924-1926-1926 

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