How to Carve a Shingle into a Wooden Rocket

By Robert Birkby
Published on March 1, 1980
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The process of carving a wooden rocket.
The process of carving a wooden rocket.
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Steps for launching a wooden shingle rocket.
Steps for launching a wooden shingle rocket.

Back in the days when
the Iowa plains were covered with prairie grass rather than corn,
pioneer children used to fling wooden rockets into the sky and
then run screaming around the countryside … waitin’ for the
missiles to come a-whizzin’ back down and stick in the footprints
they’d just vacated. 

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