Anniversary
Kathy
Today is another sad memory day. Kathy Pearson, who we lost late last year, got her first paycheck from Easterday Construction Co., Inc. 40 years ago today. Her influence is still felt and will continue to be missed.
She would have liked my lunchtime comic. Check back for it!
Kathy’s First Check
Kenney History Article
Jeff Kenney did a history article on Easterday Construction for the Culver Citizen a few years ago. I ran across it on the Plymouth Pilot site here when I was looking for something else. I thought it would be good to reprint it here for posterity. Jeff did a nice job, but I did go back and make a couple of edits where he must have misheard things. Ha!
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*In nearly 90 years’ total existence, company has helped build major structures of Culver, beyond*
Sixty years ago this month, Culver’s longest lived construction company — and one which not only built some of the most prominent structures in this and surrounding communities, but had been connected to prestigious and notable buildings around the country — officially came into its own.
The Easterday Construction Company on Slate Street had already existed for some 30 years under the auspices of the James I. Barnes Construction Company, which was started by former Logansport mayor James Barnes in 1924.
Rotating Homes Follow the Sun
Portuguese Architects have designed rotating homes that follow the sun in much the way Sunflowers do. Not only do they rotate to maximize the time their solar panels are 90 degrees to the sun, but they also can reconfigure themselves internally to optimize the space for maximum solar gain. The Architects claim the homes can produce five times as much energy as they consume. Read the entire article here on the Hexapolis site.
