|
I love museums, and although this museum in Parkersburg, West Virginia is designated as the Oil & Gas Museum, it is so much more. 
2 Comments
Utilizing the blue-highway system, we arrived in Amesville, Ohio, population about 168 souls, down from a high of around 200.  The nice thing about being retired is that Friday seemed like a good day to take a drive, so we did.  If you've been reading our blog for a while, you know that I like to quilt in the North Carolina mountains in late September.  Carpenter’s Hall, located in Independence National Park, Philadelphia is the official Birthplace of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  The tiny simple hut in the left foreground housed six freezing, starving soldiers of the Continental Army.  We were at a museum in northwest Virginia for a few days last week, and I was surprised by what drew my attention the most: a "Contemporary Embroidery" exhibit.  In case you wanted to keep track, this is the fourth presidential library and museum we have visited and blogged about. Not that we like museums . . .  Mark and I visited two extraordinary places in San Francisco last year, places that we will re-visit every time we return.  If you travel the very Northern portion of California's Highway 101, you get used to seeing the Benbow Inn, and thinking "One day I'll find out more about that, or stay there," just before you get to Garberville.  Over time I have come to realize that Mark and I see - and blog about - the places that we visit very differently.  I had been looking at exhibits for several hours here before the first group of students arrived on a field trip.  The Virginia Quilt Museum has relocated to a former barn in the Silver Lake Historic District, near Harrisonburg, Virginia.   The Greer Heritage Museum - "We Make History Awesome" - is on Main Street, right next door to the police department.  Mark, his father, and I were driving back from Fredericksburg, Texas when the alternator on the car went out.  (Image Credit: Mark Young)
A couple of years ago Mark and I stayed at a hotel near Market Square in Knoxville, Tennessee.  |
