Ansel Adams Trivia

I just read this in Astronomy Beat #15, a publication of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific,

One of the most active leaders of the [Astronomical Society of the Pacific] was Charles H. Adams, an insurance broker and businessman, who had an amateur interest in astronomy.  After joining the ASP Board in 1923, he soon became the Board’s Secretary-Treasurer, a post he held for 25 years.  During this time, Society business was often conducted from his home and records were kept there.  his son later remembered speding time at the kitchen table attaching mailing labels to issues of the ASP’s journal.  Charles’ fascination with the skies rubbed off on his son, Answel Adams, who became a nature photographer of international renown and later charied the first Annual Fund of the ASP in his father’s honor.

So get outside and give your children some inspiration.  There’s no telling where it might lead.