MrCC
04-30-2005, 04:43 PM
Here's a web page I found today. Jewel has been honored by the US federal government for being a famous decendent of a homesteader.
Musician, Author, Actress Jewel Honored as a "Homestead Legacy"
Jewel, the singer, author and actress whose current hit song is "Intuition," has been honored as a "Homestead Legacy" by Homestead National Monument of America, a unit of the National Park Service. Jewel spent much of her youth on the Homer, Alaska homestead of her grandfather. Since 2000, the monument has memorialized famous homesteaders or homesteader descendants on large banners that hang outside its Beatrice, Nebraska visitor center. A banner featuring a photo of Jewel performing in the foreground and another of her grandfather's homesteader cabin covered in snow in the background now hangs among the collection. "Homestead National Monument of America is pleased to feature Jewel on a Homestead Legacies banner," said monument Superintendent Mark Engler. "She is a very popular artist, and her personal connection to the Homestead Act demonstrates how far-reaching and important the Act truly was. The Homestead Act touched many lives, and Jewel is an excellent example of that. People from all walks of life and in many different careers have homesteader history in their backgrounds."
Homestead National Monument of America commemorates the lives and accomplishments of all pioneers, and changes to land and people that the Homestead Act of 1862 brought about. Under this law, more than 270 million acres, 10 percent of the land in the United States, were claimed by individuals. Lands could be claimed until 1976 in the lower 48 states and until 1986 in Alaska.
Other well-known Americans featured on "Homestead Legacies" banners include: authors Willa Cather and Laura Ingalls Wilder; inventor/educator George Washington Carver; frontier law officer Virgil Earp; former New York Giants football coach Steve Owen; theme park innovator Walter Knott (Knott's Berry Farm); former 3M Company head William McKnight; congresswoman and peace advocate Jeanette Rankin; and others.
Additional banners are planned for the future. Homestead National Monument of America is located four miles west of Beatrice, Nebraska on State Highway 4. Admission to all events, exhibits and displays is free of charge. For additional information, please call 402-223-3514.
Source:National Park Service (http://www.nps.gov/home/Jewel%20Banner.htm)
Musician, Author, Actress Jewel Honored as a "Homestead Legacy"
Jewel, the singer, author and actress whose current hit song is "Intuition," has been honored as a "Homestead Legacy" by Homestead National Monument of America, a unit of the National Park Service. Jewel spent much of her youth on the Homer, Alaska homestead of her grandfather. Since 2000, the monument has memorialized famous homesteaders or homesteader descendants on large banners that hang outside its Beatrice, Nebraska visitor center. A banner featuring a photo of Jewel performing in the foreground and another of her grandfather's homesteader cabin covered in snow in the background now hangs among the collection. "Homestead National Monument of America is pleased to feature Jewel on a Homestead Legacies banner," said monument Superintendent Mark Engler. "She is a very popular artist, and her personal connection to the Homestead Act demonstrates how far-reaching and important the Act truly was. The Homestead Act touched many lives, and Jewel is an excellent example of that. People from all walks of life and in many different careers have homesteader history in their backgrounds."
Homestead National Monument of America commemorates the lives and accomplishments of all pioneers, and changes to land and people that the Homestead Act of 1862 brought about. Under this law, more than 270 million acres, 10 percent of the land in the United States, were claimed by individuals. Lands could be claimed until 1976 in the lower 48 states and until 1986 in Alaska.
Other well-known Americans featured on "Homestead Legacies" banners include: authors Willa Cather and Laura Ingalls Wilder; inventor/educator George Washington Carver; frontier law officer Virgil Earp; former New York Giants football coach Steve Owen; theme park innovator Walter Knott (Knott's Berry Farm); former 3M Company head William McKnight; congresswoman and peace advocate Jeanette Rankin; and others.
Additional banners are planned for the future. Homestead National Monument of America is located four miles west of Beatrice, Nebraska on State Highway 4. Admission to all events, exhibits and displays is free of charge. For additional information, please call 402-223-3514.
Source:National Park Service (http://www.nps.gov/home/Jewel%20Banner.htm)