There was no Spalding Foundation. Spalding's novels are fictional according to his biographer.
Is there a link or something of the sort where we can read this and not just take your word for it? What you're stating goes against 6 volumes of work from Spalding attesting to these expeditions being legitimate and accurate. His publisher, DeVorss, also corroborates his studies, along with everyone else on the expedition. Some of us seek to find the answers to these things and not be shut down immediately by unfounded skepticism that doesn't seem to have a source. Please advise.
Albert Spalding was a famous violinist from the early 1900's. He was born and raised by parents, Marie Boardman and James Walter Spalding.
Although the American Board for Foreign Missions sent the first American missionaries to the PNW (the Whitmans and the Spaldings), the first missionary to the PNW was in fact Spokane Garry, who left eastern Washington in 1825 for the Red River Mission in Canada and returned in 1829 as a converted Christian who independently taught his tribe from the Bible.
fad for demolishing houses and replacing with very ordinary looking brick double story residential "flats" begins the degradation of residential quality in the regionestablishment of Big Sam's supermarket in St Albans and introduction of Friday night shopping impacts on local traders in Sunshine, who by early 1980's were in considerable trouble competing with the massive Highpoint shopping centre in Maribyrnong, which lead to redevelopment of Hampshire Rd shopping centre in attempt to lure local shoppers back.competition with imported manufactured goods leads to closure of many local industries which had commenced in 1920's including Spaldings, Nettlefolds, Massey Ferguson (previously H.V.McKay), ARC, John Darling & Sons as well as the large govt ammunitions factories in Maribyrnongreform of the State Education system results in amalgamation of High Schools with Technical Schools to form colleges, with resultant closure of Sunshine High School and redevelopment of Sunshine Technical College and closure of its Trades Building.immigrants from the Vietnam War arrive in migrant hostels in Maribyrnong and later settle in Footscray & Sunshine in particular as the younger European generations move out of those areas into new suburbs on the fringes or to more affluent suburbs.suburbs of Kealba and Keilor Downs commences in mid-1970's after the Green Gully municipal tip was filled inthe more up-market suburb of Taylors Lakes commences 1981 with sub-division of Overnewton Estate lands which had been sold to the Walton family (a retailer which was bought out by Myer in mid-1970's), initially the land east of Sunshine Avenue was subdivided and then in late 1980's, the land to the west of Sunshine Avenue was subdivided