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MICHIGAN LIBRARYSEEDS

Started by Swamp Thing, March 31, 2012, 08:56:48 PM

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Swamp Thing

March 31, 2012, 08:56:48 PM Last Edit: April 02, 2012, 08:35:15 AM by Swamp Thing
Fred has personally challenged Michigan to crank up the Libraryseeds.

Instructors, please post up about your efforts.

Others, please tell us about opportunities to bring the history and heritage portion of Appleseed to a library, school, church, or anywhere else near you.

Thanks,

ST

yellowhousejake

#1
March 31, 2012, 10:06:28 PM
How about a Hoosier going first? We have been given an opportunity to get into a 5th grade public school classroom in Elhart, and no instructor in Indiana can get the day off on short notice. A quick heads up to ITB and it looks like Mac66 will be able to run with it.

So maybe MI's first Libraryseed will be in IN?

YHJ
I have removed my email from my profile to stop the mod reports. If you need a Libertyseed scheduled you will now have to contact me on the Libertyseed forum.

YHJ

mac66

#2
March 31, 2012, 10:09:51 PM Last Edit: April 01, 2012, 07:55:48 PM by mac66
Actually I already did a library seed and have a couple more planned but the Elkhart school will be the first seed in a public school for us. Looking forward to cracking that nut.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Ronald Reagan

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience."  Patrick Henry, 1765

Motivation?...The best solution to morale problems is to kill all the unhappy people  Ghenghis Khan

mac66

#3
April 12, 2012, 05:41:04 PM
2 Seeds scheduled next week...

Lapeer Library on April 18th

Pinewood Elementary April 19th.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Ronald Reagan

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience."  Patrick Henry, 1765

Motivation?...The best solution to morale problems is to kill all the unhappy people  Ghenghis Khan

MI-copperhead

#4
April 12, 2012, 06:18:25 PM
Quote from: mac66 on April 12, 2012, 05:41:04 PM
2 Seeds scheduled next week...

Lapeer Library on April 18th

Pinewood Elementary April 19th.

This is fantastic considering the date! The children at Pinewood are in for a real history lesson from the "Godzilla of Liberty" !
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Thomas Jefferson
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mac66

#5
April 18, 2012, 05:52:14 PM
Lapeer Libraryseed is done. 38 people showed thanks to Earthmom who set the whole thing up. She will be writing the IAAR soon.  All I had to do is set up my props and yack for an hour and a half.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Ronald Reagan

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience."  Patrick Henry, 1765

Motivation?...The best solution to morale problems is to kill all the unhappy people  Ghenghis Khan

Pitmaster

#6
April 18, 2012, 06:07:03 PM
38 people is quite a showing.
Pitmaster

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SteelThunder

#7
April 18, 2012, 07:11:26 PM
Hey mac...you have a "promotions packet" for the groups that you been using to sell the idea?  Or have you been using your charm and good looks to make the connection?

We have a DAR chapter here, a Heritage Museum, a Boy Scout troop and a Library that constantly hosts speakers that may be candidates.  I haven't mentioned it to them yet, but we're friends with the Principals of our elementary and middle school...they would likely be game.

Steel
NRA Patron Member, SAF Life Member
NRA Certified Rifle Instructor, RSO
Warlord of the West

Ultima vox civis
"Learning occurs only after repetitive, demoralizing failures." - Pat Rogers
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart." - Tecumseh
"Never attribute to treachery, that which can adequately be explained by incompetence" - Bonaparte, Hanlon, et al

mac66

#8
April 18, 2012, 08:10:17 PM
Actually there was 39 people who attended. I would like to say that it was my intriguing press release and flyer that got 39 people to attend but it was Earthmom who got 38 of them through her home schooling network.

I did manage to get the 39th person by dragging some homeless guy off the street into the library to get warm.  He is now my best friend because his uncle has a gun just like mine.

Best to ask Earthmom what she sent out.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Ronald Reagan

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience."  Patrick Henry, 1765

Motivation?...The best solution to morale problems is to kill all the unhappy people  Ghenghis Khan

Superheat

#9
April 18, 2012, 08:31:04 PM
Quote from: mac66 on April 18, 2012, 08:10:17 PM
I did manage to get the 39th person by dragging some homeless guy off the street into the library to get warm.  He is now my best friend because his uncle has a gun just like mine.

Yet another special friend for Mac.  Awwwww. 

Any pics Mac?

mac66

#10
April 18, 2012, 08:39:05 PM
Quote from: Superheat on April 18, 2012, 08:31:04 PM
Quote from: mac66 on April 18, 2012, 08:10:17 PM
I did manage to get the 39th person by dragging some homeless guy off the street into the library to get warm.  He is now my best friend because his uncle has a gun just like mine.

Yet another special friend for Mac.  Awwwww. 

Any pics Mac?


Earthmom took some. I was busy. Her IAAR is now up. Hopefully she will post them.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Ronald Reagan

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience."  Patrick Henry, 1765

Motivation?...The best solution to morale problems is to kill all the unhappy people  Ghenghis Khan

Edheler

#11
April 18, 2012, 08:46:58 PM
Wow, thats just awesome! 39 people at a Libraryseed!

Congrats Mac!

mac66

#12
April 18, 2012, 10:35:30 PM
Pics are up on the IAAR

again, the credit for this goes to Earthmom, she did all the work, I just opened my big mouth.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Ronald Reagan

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience."  Patrick Henry, 1765

Motivation?...The best solution to morale problems is to kill all the unhappy people  Ghenghis Khan

mac66

#13
February 27, 2013, 10:24:51 AM Last Edit: February 27, 2013, 07:54:20 PM by mac66
The new LibertySeed  2013 schedule of events and thread is up here....

http://appleseedinfo.org/smf/index.php?topic=34264.msg253254#msg253254
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Ronald Reagan

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience."  Patrick Henry, 1765

Motivation?...The best solution to morale problems is to kill all the unhappy people  Ghenghis Khan

Pain Killer

#14
March 26, 2013, 11:29:57 AM
Just a clarification, as per Fred History given at a Libertyseed for IIT3-4 promotion does count toward your promotion. It needs to be done in the presence of a Red Hat and the they must sign off on it on your PC form with the date and the History that was presented.

PK
"We have staked the whole of all our political Institutions upon the capacity of mankind for Self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to The Ten Commandments of God." - James Madison

Superheat

#15
March 26, 2013, 12:03:24 PM
Quote from: Pain Killer on March 26, 2013, 11:29:57 AM
Just a clarification, as per Fred History given at a Libertyseed for IIT3-4 promotion does count toward your promotion. It needs to be done in the presence of a Red Hat and the they must sign off on it on your PC form with the date and the History that was presented.

PK
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Whippet

#16
March 26, 2013, 02:32:27 PM
Now would be a great time for all the IITs to setup a Libertyseed to help the program AND help themselves. Setup a location that is local (comfortable) for you and let the rest of us know what help you need. There are PowerPoint and Prezi presentations, photos, musket balls, bayonets and some muskets available for props.

THE FOLLOWING IS FOR SECRET SQUIRREL ORANGE HATS ONLY...NO CHRISTMAS HATS ALLOWED!

:sb:
Sermon to fellow Orange Hats. Orange Hats Unite! Why are so many of us being secret agents in our own communities? Make yourself known and book something. Counting Libertyseed History towards PC4 should be the final push to get all of us our PC4 and (more importantly) help YOUR local community. It is great that we are all bailing like out lives depend upon it (they do), but getting even a few people in your local community can make a HUGE change that shows up quickly. If enough of us fix our local communities, the County will be saved as a result. End of sermon

Long live the Republic,

Whippet
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2. Keep 'em there while you squeeze the trigger.
3. Repeat

Choose wisely and do your best at whatever you find yourself doing. (Whippet, 1997)

SteelThunder

#17
March 26, 2013, 02:34:16 PM
^
What he said

:bow:
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NRA Certified Rifle Instructor, RSO
Warlord of the West

Ultima vox civis
"Learning occurs only after repetitive, demoralizing failures." - Pat Rogers
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart." - Tecumseh
"Never attribute to treachery, that which can adequately be explained by incompetence" - Bonaparte, Hanlon, et al

Pain Killer

#18
March 26, 2013, 02:35:45 PM
I am on a committee for Libertyseeds and it was in a PM from myself to Fred. I hope the following will be sufficient, I have also posted to the Libertyseed 2013 post.

http://appleseedinfo.org/smf/index.php?topic=33982.0

Quote from: Fred on March 26, 2013, 11:03:54 AM
Quote from: Pain Killer on March 26, 2013, 10:37:35 AM
Fred,

I have been asked a couple times this week whether Libetyseed history presentations count toward a PC 3-4. I would assume if there is a red hat present and they observe it and sign off on it the answer would be yes, correct?

PK

    I don't see why not.
"We have staked the whole of all our political Institutions upon the capacity of mankind for Self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to The Ten Commandments of God." - James Madison

Pain Killer

#19
March 26, 2013, 02:38:15 PM
Well said Whippet!!
"We have staked the whole of all our political Institutions upon the capacity of mankind for Self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to The Ten Commandments of God." - James Madison

mac66

#20
March 26, 2013, 05:50:21 PM
Just so happens Whippet is doing his Second Strike tonight at a libertyseed.  Unless he passes out in the first minute I expect to pass him on it...which is probably why he asked. ;D
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Ronald Reagan

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience."  Patrick Henry, 1765

Motivation?...The best solution to morale problems is to kill all the unhappy people  Ghenghis Khan
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