American History Museum reopens

[javasaurus]

For those of you who want a new excuse to visit the mall in DC, the Smithsonian Museum of American History has reopened.

Details available at WTOPnews.com

In particular, they will have costumed historical characters every weekend, and weekedays too during the summer.

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"Sarah Pickering" will be there pretty frequently... and she'll have an activity for people to help her with.

*g* If you're interested in the Highlights Tour, please avoid mine... heck, I have a hard enough time talking in front of all those strangers... put people I *know* in the audience and I get into bigger tongue-tied trouble (ok, not if they're lines written for me... but in this case, they're half written by me, half made up on the fly... and it's been *just* long enough ... ok... almost 12 years... more than long enough that I don't feel so confident in that tour right now... and yeah, I looked at the old tour... there's nearly nothing that's the same anymore!)


Oh! And we get to play (and let others play with) with the cotton gin, a printing press, a stereoscope, and a repro. of one of Jefferson's polygraph machines (not his invention, but owned by)... depending on time/day/person/something.... now...

I know it looks *really* neat in there... even though I haven't actually seen it *finished*... I could imagine well, and what I saw was very good, if not downright cool :-) (though I'll probably only dare the new main staircase once... maybe once.. my tours will *not* be using it!... too scary for me, even if pretty)