Henry Ford Museum

Pictures:

Ron with really big train; of course, a mustang; really big wrenches; Sandy with locomotive (How would you like to depend on this one to get you where you are going?)

Today we attempted to see everything in the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit, Michigan. You noticed I said "attempted". The museum is in a building that covers 12 acres. It is packed with exhibits of everything you can think of. They had everything from clock collections, trains, excellent historical exhibits, huge and I repeat huge machinery, farm implements, furniture, and of course a car or two. If you can imagine walking through a catalogue of everything anyone could possibly want - it was there. They finally turned the lights off and ran Ron out. I was beginning to think I was going to have to send the search and rescure after him. We were there from 9:30 to 5:00 with one 15 minute snack stop for lunch at 3:00.

Ron had to put it into fast gear at that time because we had just seen about 1/2 of the exhibits and had less than 2 hours to go. It is hard for him to pass up anything without reading "the whole thing".

One of my favorite parts was the special exhibit "Discovering the Civil War". This was a traveling exhibit from the National Archives. They had taken actual documents from their archives and showed how they fit into the history of the war. With my interest in genealogy research I was fascianted how they could link one document with another and tell a story from it.

Tomorrow we go back to see the next part of the museum - The Village. I am not sure what will be there but if it is anything like what we saw today, we are in for a treat.

We know we are so very fortunate that God has blessed us so that we can take trips like this.