Our 2nd Anniversary

September 1, 2013

Part 1

Written December 23, 2013, edited January 30, 2014

To my readers, I hope you are staying warm and safe this very cold January.  It has been a busy 5 months, between volunteering, housework, and new dog Toby.  I have not had time to update the blog.  However, I am back now in 2014.

Last September during Labor Day weekend husband and I spent some time celebrating 2^nd anniversary.  How did we choose to celebrate?  We spent some time in beautiful D.C. and historic Alexandria.

The first place we visited was the Smithsonian museum of American history.  The exhibit about the Golden books was very interesting. Unfortunately, the exhibit already closed on January 12, 2014 and had been taken down already.  I enjoyed it very much…reminiscing about when my parents read to me.  Life had been simpler when I was a little girl, now time goes so quickly.  Even though it had been short, one learned a lot about the beloved Golden books.  (E.g., they started around World War 2 to increase literacy to more people, not the rich.)  It was also a very effective marketing tool especially for tissues and Band-Aids.  There are three complaints that I did not like about the exhibit.  It had too much writing and too little artifacts to view, and too little interaction.  You are still able to view the online exhibit, so if interested, please click the link.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/documentsgallery/exhibitions/goldenbooks/

Afterwards, we decided to see a second exhibit titled “Change in America: Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 & March on Washington, 1963.”  I found it very interesting because it talked about how African slaves were freed.  The exhibit linked two important events, Emancipation Proclamation and March on Washington.  Right after the Proclamation thousands of slaves gathered in “tent cities.”  In 1963, the March on Washington was unexpected and there were hundreds to thousands of people.  Marchers were demonstrating for freedom and jobs.  If anyone is interested, you had better hurry because it closes in seven months on September 7, 2014. Please check out the following link of the online exhibit.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/changing-america-emancipation-proclamation-1863-and-march-washington-1963

The picture is a preview of what I will write about next.

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