Robert McKanna.Among his fellow Rotarians Robert McKanna is known as "the Palatine Palatine, hill, Rome Palatine, hill: see Rome before Augustus and Roman Empire under Rome. Palatine, village, United States Palatine (păl`ətīn), village (1990 pop. organ man." Over his 30-year hobby, the superintendent in Palatine, Ill., has restored 15 of the instruments, some dating back to the late 19th century, with another 10 awaiting restoration. He is shown here with a newer model that accompanies him to school fairs where kids can crank up crank 1 n. 1. A device for transmitting rotary motion, consisting of a handle or arm attached at right angles to a shaft. 2. A clever turn of speech; a verbal conceit: quips and cranks. the music. His collection included a pump organ with a player piano-like feature, a coin-operated nickelodeon and a mammoth mammoth, name for several large prehistoric elephants of the extinct genus Mammuthus, which ranged over Eurasia and North America in the Pleistocene epoch. merry-go-round organ that required McKanna to build a circus wagon wagon: see carriage. wagon Four-wheeled vehicle designed to be drawn by draft animals. Wagons have been used from the 1st century BC; early examples used spoked wheels with metal rims, pivoted front axles, and linchpins to secure the wheels. to carry it to parades. |
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