The Mariners Museum

When we visited Virginia recently, Ma took us to see the Mariners Museum. This place was fantastic! The Civil War history inside these walls is amazing. One entire section of the museum is devoted to the Ironclads, and particularly the Monitor. We didn't make it through the entire wing. I told Ma we must go back there...there was so much to see, and we only had two hours to see it in before they closed. We'll plan it better next time.

Wee Swashbucklers:

We happened to hit the museum on the Wee Swashbucklers weekend. When you first entered the museum, they had a game board set up for the kids to play.

Ian won a wooden nickel.

This anchor belonged to the Monitor, which was raised in August, 2002. The Monitor's claim to fame, or at least part of it's claim to fame, was that it had the world's first armored revolving gun turret.

They also had parrots there for the wee swashbucklers to admire. This guy was called "Rainbow", and he really can talk!

"Hey! Look at Me!"

This gorgeous model was in the museum lobby. Dad would get a kick out of it. I think he'd get a kick out of the entire experience, actually.

Michael said...
>Dad would get a kick out of it...Funny, when I was in Buffalo for the service, he passed a comment, while I was visiting him, that he would never build another model. It was with a fair amount of emotion, too, something like, "I'll never waste time on another one of those again..." I should have asked what was behind it.

Serena said...

Sadness. His hands have started to shake as he has gotten older. He has regrets...when he was able to make them, he got too busy (pioneering), and now that he has time, he is unable.