Thanks for your recent messages on the OA '52' site. Also sending along a photo of handsome guys Hal & Ed with the graduate fellow in charge of the Ames Shovel Museum at Stonehill College. The are standing in front of a cabinet of silver painted shovels. It is huge & fantastic. Many old memories for all of us - for example the engine turntable near North Easton RR station and the tracks that led right to the shovel shop.
From the internet- "Above is the Ames Centennial display of 19 silver-plated shovels as prepared for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Amusingly, they’re displayed in the original display case. Inside the vault with the rest of the collection, Galer proudly points out not only the typical shovels we’re familiar with, but shovels designed for working coffee beans, 10-foot-long shovels used to dig telegraph pole holes, and tiny trenching shovels used by US troops in WWI and WWII."