Visiting the Air and
Space Museum in Hampton (Virginia) by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
Laurent
did not have to work on his birthday and wanted to visit a museum. We headed out to the Air and Space Museum in
Hampton for a day at the Museum and a light lunch afterwards.
There
were several kinds of exhibits there with hi-tech and bio-tech displays among
the exhibits. We all liked the exhibit
showing how raptor-vultures, falcons, and owls fly.
Florence
and I listened to a neat computer program that showed the different kinds of
owls and listened to the different hooting sounds they made.
One
of the exhibits showed a naval airman with his yellow jacket, orange pointers,
and gray ear protection on the deck of an aircraft carrier.
“That’s
the same stuff I wear on the ship,” Laurent told Florence, who became
immediately interested.
We
all liked the Apollo 12 Space Module. I
remembered what one astronaut said about this Module, “I am entrusting my life
to an object made by the lowest bidder.”
Another
exhibit I liked was about the African-American Tuskegee fliers in World War
II. They were the first “black” fighter
pilots. Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit
was one of them. (I grew up in Detroit,
so I shared with Florence why that exhibit was very important.)
After
the museum, we went to Pizza Hut and loved the air-conditioning.
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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