You’ll find Fulkerson Street in:
- Abingdon, Virginia
- Cambridge, Massachusetts (at right)
- Drumright, Oklahoma
- Jefferson City, Missouri
- Roswell, New Mexico
- * Where Fulkerson Street in Abingdon, VA, intersects Colonial Drive you’ll find the
- 1789 mansion once occupied by Samuel Vance Fulkerson and Catherine Elizabeth Fulkerson.
- * Battershell – a critically acclaimed punk rock band “with more drive and push than a can
- of Cheese Whiz” – featured Tammy Lynn Fulkerson on lead guitar and vocals.
- * The University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, offers you the Etheleen L. Fulkerson Scholarship if you’re in their B.A. program with a major or minor in Music.
- * After you graduate, you can perform at the Fulkerson Recital Hall at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California.
- * Or you could just knock around at the Fulkerson Pool Hall in Smithfield, Utah. Back in the 1920s, that was.
- * Time to take you higher. Set your GPS to N 47.595762 and W -115.859886. You’ll find yourself in Shoshone County, Idaho, at an altitude of 5,525 feet…on top of Fulkerson Peak. The mountain was named in honor of Marshall Fulkerson, an Idaho surveyor, in 1983. The peak is about 20 miles/40 minutes from Interstate 90 at Wallace, Idaho. Click here to view the peak in summer.
And higher than 20,000 feet over Nazi-occupied Europe on 13 July 1944, in a badly damaged B-24 Liberator. On its return from a bombing mission over Saarbrucken, Germany, the plane’s four engines are failing one by one. It reaches the English coast with only one engine running. A minimum of two engines are required for a safe landing. The plane drops to 15,000 feet and the pilot orders the crew to bail out. The copilot bails out at 10,000 feet. Then the pilot feathers the remaining engine and jumps. The entire crew survived, including the Flight Engineer, Staff Sergeant Ralph R. Fulkerson.
Bob Fulkerson of Grass Valley, California, celebrated his 80th birthday in 2009 by making his first sky dive. Two of his grandsons jumped with him.
He’s flanked by grandsons Brandon Lindsen (L) and Robert Taylor Lindsen (R) who joined him in the jump. Step one: flying up to 9,000 feet.  Step two: falling 9,000 feet.  The standard Superman pose.  Smiling all the way down.  |
| Comments “Poppa is awesome” – Katelyn“Not this Fulkerson, LOL””Wow! Good for you! I hope to be that adventurous in 50 years! I can’t even muster up the courage to do that now, even in my 20’s. You’re very brave””Whew! No way that this Fulkerson will ever jump out of a perfectly good airplane!””CRAZY but have to admire the courage! I cant even go on a rollercoaster!””The way I look at it, even if the chute didn’t open, it’s better than being in a nursing home with bedsores. Stopping smoking, eating healthy, don’t drink, don’t do dangerous activities…why? So they can wheel me in my wheelchair to the doctor and get me home before I poop in my diaper? Nope, still lots to see and do! That jump was pure class!!!!” – Stan in Illinois |
- * Fulkerson Landing is in Jersey County, Illinois.
- * John F. Fulkerson of Hugoton, Kansas, holds the record for landing in public office more
- years in succession than any other public official in state history – fifty years,
- from 1924 to 1974.
- * If your vehicle landed at the bottom of Fulkerson Ditch in Blackford County, Indiana, you
- can call Fulkerson Towing (of St. Augustine, Florida – so you may have a bit of a wait).
- * As if one were not enough, you’ll also find a Fulkerson Ditch in Daviess County, Kentucky.
- * Public performances in Kansas nowadays feature Kyle Fulkerson as bassist for Kansas City’s “melodic dysfunctional alternative hard rock” ensemble Hollow Space.