My wife, Robin Vierbuchen Sproul, inherited many miscellaneous items once belonging to extraordinary inventor and visionary Charles Francis Jenkins.
Robin grew up in this Washington, DC area and I've lived here ever since we married in 1982. I spent my whole adult working life on the engineering staff at WMAL, the final 15 years or so as chief engineer. Robin was the ABC News Washington Bureau Chief for 21 years. Jenkins was her great uncle.
We've especially enjoyed defending the Jenkins legacy over the years, since he lived nearby on 16th Street NW, had his corporate office downtown on Connecticut Avenue NW and his experimental transmitter site was over in Wheaton, Maryland. The transmitter house still stands, protected for its historic significance.
The items coming your way are two clumps of documents. The smaller one is a tattered binder with an assortment of loose documents. The larger, sturdier notebook appears to be the Jenkins scrapbook where he taped all manner of things he found interesting.
