Word: audubon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down the Ohio River floated a skiff manned by two Negroes, carrying a young couple and their baby to a new home farther west. The long-haired young man, whose weathered face belied his trade, was a storekeeper with a passion for painting birds. His name was John James Audubon. Passing an island, Audubon saw the cross-eyed, hook-nosed face of a horned owl. Up came his fowling piece; he shot, leaped overboard to retrieve the bird. As he waded through the shallows he began sinking in quicksand. The Negroes, cautioning him not to move, braced themselves with oars...
...prey are protected." This is not strictly accurate: Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is the only sanctuary in the world primarily for the birds of prey, but these birds are protected together with other species of wild life in the National Parks and certain other sanctuaries. Particularly the National Association of Audubon Societies is to be congratulated on the reversal of its policy regarding the birds of prey. The Association formerly recommended the trapping of hawks, but it now urges that they be rigidly protected; and such protection is given on all Audubon sanctuaries...
...National Association of Audubon Societies has established another hawk sanctuary at Cape May, N. J. All hawks, save the bird-eating sharp-shinned, Cooper's and goshawk, are rather beneficial than harmful and are protected in 15 States...
From Harvard's collections of original drawings by Audubon, there are shown colored portraits of the passenger pigeon, now extinct, and that of the American widgeon, ivory billed woodpecker, red owl, frog eater, chuck will's widow, yellow billed cuckoo, whip-poor-will, and others. Audubon's early work as a young man of twenty-three along the Ohio river is shown in drawings of the belted kingfisher, red-winged blackbird, and cat bird...
...display also contains an original letter written by Audubon to Daniel Webster in Washington, D.C. in 1841 urging that the government found a "Natural History Institute to advance our knowledge of Natural Science, and place me at the head of it." Audubon was in financial difficulties at the time, but refused a government sinecure under Webster, saying, "I fear anything but Natural History, in which I am an authority, would be hard for me to attend...