We started off at the Gloucester History Museum. The building was originally a tavern, then a B&B, the office buildings, and finally the museum. It's cute, very small, but lots and lots crammed into it. Most of the items have been donated from the community. My favorite item was a doll that was over 100 years old. Someone found it in between the walls of a house while doing renovations to it.
Lots of sketching going on. Once, I thought Jackson was sketching the milk crate, but instead he was drawing the phone jack on the floor.
We then walked into the courthouse circle and looked at the old buildings. There was a Confederate monument. There was a picture from 1893 of Confederate Veterans in front of it. In the background of the picture was the building that now houses the museum. The kids thought it was really cool to see what it looked like in 1983. Honestly, I thought it was really cool too.
We went into the old courthouse. (which is used for modern county meetings). There was no one there so we were discussing what was modern and what was older. I let the kids sit in the county seats with the gavel. They kept giggling like we were doing something wrong. :)
Sam was the only one who scared me, he looked like he was really about to bang the gavel! :)
We then went into the visitor's center and talked to another gentleman for a bit, about the other buildings in the circle. The gift shop now has steel doors because of fire. They lost records, not once, but twice. We were also told the story of the brick wall around the circle. It was just a fence to keep out livestock. Then they added the brick wall. It humored the kids to think of cows and chickens wandering down Main St. and into the circle. :) Also there were lots of 1920's pictures of the town. It was so much fun to point out the buildings to them.
2 comments:
Is this the first one, here? I don't see any link to "older blogs". Also, Sam does seem like the most likely judicial candidate, to me.
This is the first one, well done!
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