[Pollinator] Today begins the Langstroth Bicentennial

[MRH]

Merry Christmas!  Today, Dec. 25 2009,  is the 199th birthday of
Lorenzo Langstroth (1810-1895), inventor of the modern beehive.  This
begins the beginning of his Bicentennial Celebration.  Many of us are
planning events during the next year to commemorate his life and work.
Please join in by organizing celebrations in your area.  Your local
beekeeping, gardening, farming, scientific, academic, and
environmental communities all have a reason to celebrate.

Marc Hoffman
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Send your ideas and plans to lorenzolangstroth at gmail.com.

For more information and inspiration here are a few sites to visit:

Announcement of organizing meeting on January 21 in Philadelphia.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/blog/index.php?/archives/467-Welcome-to-the-200th-Year-Lets-Talk-Science!.html

Google Group devoted to the Bicentennial Celebration
http://groups.google.com/group/lll200?hl=en

“Bee Man,” a one-man play about LLL’s life and works.
http://www.LorenzoLangstroth.com

Kim Flottum’s Catch the Buzz about the Langstroth stamp initiative.
http://home.ezezine.com/1636/1636-2009.12.22.09.43.archive.html

Hive and the Honeybee Collection, Mann Library, Cornell University.
Online version of Langstroth on the Hive and the Honeybee, 1853
edition.  19th century journal articles, searchable, by and about LLL.

Patent 9300 available from the US Patent and Trademark Office, also on
Google Patents.  The movable frame beehive.

Call to action by Carl Flatow:
http://lll200.googlegroups.com/web/Open-letter.pdf?hl=en&gda=3Q5skkIAAACbRhgp4_wF3RG6gtDbeZpHT0NL_O1dc5H2kWQe3ZREkig9aiIH6PvGS1GZcIk7KNJV4u3aa4iAIyYQIqbG9naPgh6o8ccLBvP6Chud5KMzIQ

Short Biography of Langstroth by Ophia Smith in the Ohio Historical
Society Journal:
http://search.ohiohistory.org/texis/search/context.html?query=pg&pr=public&prox=page&rorder=500&rprox=500&rdfreq=500&rwfreq=500&rlead=500&sufs=0&order=r&cq=&cmd=context&id=4aaab1a417

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