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Cruising Through Tight Spaces
Wednesday, August 28, 2024 @ 11:15 am - 1:00 pm
PROGRAM
The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
Take a trip through the 40 years it took to conceive of and build the Panama Canal. Most countries wanted this highway of water to be built in Central America, but Panama was not the first choice. To oversee the project even the United States was not the first choice.
This program will reveal the immense challenges faced in the jungle during the building stage. These trials came with considerable human sacrifice.
You will be amazed at the story of the engineering phenomenon we call the Panama Canal. You will also learn the ins and outs of taking a full trip cruising through the entire 51 miles of the canal from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Also you’ll have an inside look as you view photos taken from the cruise ship balcony.
SPEAKER
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Carolyn Tucker Myers is originally from Memphis, Tennessee. Her family moved to a suburb of Detroit, Michigan where her father worked with General Motors. After five years of snow and ice, he moved the family to Houston. In 1951, her parents opened a hardware store in Pasadena. Carolyn graduated from Pasadena High School in 1955 and the University of Texas, Austin, in 1959, and married shortly thereafter. The couple were stationed in Morocco where her husband spent two years in the Air Force. They returned to Coleman in central West Texas where she taught elementary school for six years. In 1977, she moved back to Pasadena and joined the family business where she worked for 34 years. After 60 years in business, Tucker Hardware was closed in 2011. A previous member and international secretary of Epsilon Sigma Alpha Sorority, Carolyn also served as president of Soroptimist International of Pasadena, a service organization. She was recognized as a Woman of Excellence at the 2000 Federation of Houston Professional Women Gala. She feels honored to be recently accepted into the DAR, Daughters of the American Revolution, Lady Washington Houston chapter. Carolyn became interested in presidential libraries when she attended the annual hardware market in Atlanta, Georgia with her mother. They toured the library of President James E. “Jimmy” Carter. Thus began her mother’s collection of presidential plates, which Carolyn now proudly possesses. The other presidential libraries she has visited include: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush and found each different and intriguing. |
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