The sudden ideas always turn out to be the best ones when it comes to field trips. Our friends threw out the option of heading to a nearby town to check out the Lincoln Memorial. I had seen this small building many times over the years but never thought to venture inside. So, on a summer day, last year, we finally got to see what the inside of this place looked like. It was amazing at how much Civil War History was in this rather small museum. We spent almost two hours and were ready to go back again and again. One of the highlights to the younger group was an actual piece of hardtack from the Civil War. Seems to me that any food substance that can last that long, cannot have tasted all that great to begin with!
Afterwards, we visited the library and gardens. What mother can resist posing the brood in a set of arch ways? Oh, and the studious group on the garden bench . . . posed!
Anyone who lives in the Redlands, California area should definitely check out the Lincoln Memorial there. Oh, as the group picture with Lincoln, Mr. Lincoln is not a ghost but cardboard. The soldier, however, was a real person but not of an age to be from the Civil War Era!
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