Visited: Saturday, May 26th, 2012
Now this surprised me...
This is the house where JFK was born, and it's - very... normal. The first and second floors are set up as they were when the Kennedys lived there, through 1920. And the basement is 1/2 gift shop, 1/2 video presentation. On the whole, it's a very modest museum, particularly as compared to the LBJ site. Though I did find it very interesting to compare the openness of the LBJ site - noting both his successes and failures, strengths and weakness, in good balance. The JFK video, in contrast, focused on the positive, and excused the failures - and then ended very suddenly with Kennedy's death.
On the whole, it wasn't what I expected, but was rather enjoyable, and _much_ easier to find parking than I expected.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
48) Lowell National Historical Park
Visited: Saturday, May 26th, 2012
After not getting to an NPS site this winter, it was nice to start to get back into the swing with our first visit to the Lowell National Historical Park. And it's an interesting park - the visitor center isn't particularly important, though - if you have limited time, the Boott Cotton Mill. The earplugs aren't really optional - they run the looms, and it gets _loud_. But it's impressive - and the boys were fascinated to hear about the jobs children would typically do in the factory.
In addition, they had a DIckens display - I hadn't realized that Dickens had traveled extensively through the United States. And I only vaguely remembered than Kerouac was from Lowell; since I do need to read On The Road, I picked it up. But nothing really topped the working looms; at the gift store, they sell dish cloths made at the mill there.
After not getting to an NPS site this winter, it was nice to start to get back into the swing with our first visit to the Lowell National Historical Park. And it's an interesting park - the visitor center isn't particularly important, though - if you have limited time, the Boott Cotton Mill. The earplugs aren't really optional - they run the looms, and it gets _loud_. But it's impressive - and the boys were fascinated to hear about the jobs children would typically do in the factory.
In addition, they had a DIckens display - I hadn't realized that Dickens had traveled extensively through the United States. And I only vaguely remembered than Kerouac was from Lowell; since I do need to read On The Road, I picked it up. But nothing really topped the working looms; at the gift store, they sell dish cloths made at the mill there.
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