Weather Observations for Cannelton, Indiana

Winter Observations

DATE	Temperature	Sunrise	Sunset
2/25	52° F	7:18 AM	6:39 PM
2/26	39° F	7:17 AM	6:40 PM
2/27	34° F	7:16 AM	6:41 PM
2/28	38° F	7:15 AM	6:42 PM
3/1	46° F	7:14 AM	6:43 PM

Spring Observations

	High Temp	Low Temp
4/15	82° F.	62° F.
4/16	84° F.	63° F.
4/17	86° F.	65° F.
4/18	87° F.	64° F.
4/19	82° F.	58° F.

Click on the flower for Spring photographs   
New! Spring Drawings!

 

  Winter Photographs

The bark of our moon tree

Observations About Our Tree

The tree is the moon tree. It was grown from a seed taken to the moon and back on Apollo 14. Astronaut Stuart Roosa is the one who took it. It was with many other seeds. In 1976 NASA gave out two seeds to every state. Also, those who wanted one could write a nice letter to NASA about how they were going to plant the tree for the Bicentennial. So, our Girl Scout camp in Cannelton wrote a letter and received this seedling. It is a sycamore tree. Our school made a nice report on this tree. You can see the report by clicking here. (http://www.zip.com.au/~elanora/tusmoon.html)

When it was dedicated to the camp, Norman Grissom, the brother of Apollo 1 Astronaut Gus Grissom who perished when Apollo 1 caught fire, came and dedicated the tree. :-)

Stuart Roosa loved trees - he was a smoke jumper before he was an astronaut. His son saw our moon tree report on the Internet ans wrote to us. His name is Jack Roosa. He is a fighter pilot and trains other pilots. He still writes to our school today.

 

 

For student artwork, click here.