Friday, November 28, 2008

history, reopened

I have been happy that both daughters live in places that are full of history. The kind that belongs to the past and the kind that is very current.


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Late this afternoon, we stood in line to enter the newly reopened Smithsonian Museum of American History.


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We walked through the American Communities and the American Wars exhibits. There was a lot of history to take in before they threw us out (past closing time). Not all of the presentation was, in fact, uncontroversial.


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Ah well. History is tough to take on an empty stomach. We quickly remedied this by eating a wonderful fried chicken dinner at Central.