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Our foil ball display
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Dot with the giant foil ball
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Giant foil ball - respect
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Foil ball close up
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American Girl, Molly, and her friends grew up during World War II
(1941-1945). Thousands of American soldiers were fighting in faraway
lands. Their families were fighting, too, on America's home front.
Everyone was encouraged to save old metal and rubber--families collected bottle
caps, metal cans, old tires, and foil wrappers and donated them to scrap
drives. The materials were then used to make war equipment.
As part of the exhibit, "War and Remembering: Cecil County in
WWII" and film history series "From Rosie to Roosevelt," the
Cecil County Public Library collected scraps in an effort to create foilballs
and exhibit them at the Elkton and Rising Sun branches. Everyone was
invited to bring any sized piece of clean, used aluminum foil to any branch.
Every time someone added to the foil ball, they entered their name in a prize
drawing!
Our contest ended March 17, 2001; Dot, one of our library
volunteers, took the foil to be recycled at the end of the contest.
It weighed in at four and a half pounds, and was 46 inches round!
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