We saw some amazing historical sites while visiting the South. I could write many pages of information detailing all we saw and learned, but alas, I won't. When we travel we like to do a couple of things in the cities/states we visit. If we are in a capitol city, we like to visit the state capitol building. We visited the state capitols of Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas and Texas. Most state capitol buildings are beautifully constructed and they contain a lot of information inside about the history of that state. We also like to visit
Presidential Libraries and on this trip we were fortunate enough to visit the Presidential Libraries of President Jimmy Carter and President Lyndon Johnson. We were young teenagers during the time that Johnson was President and we were newly weds during the era of Jimmy Carter's administration. Visiting their libraries is like going into a time machine. The library takes you back to the period of time that they served our country. There was
A LOT going on in this country during the administration of Lyndon Johnson (watch the video to get some idea of what I'm referring to.) We remember a lot of the civil upheaval of the Vietnam war, the civil rights movement (and a bunch of other movements at the time) and great advancements in space exploration. We've been fortunate to visit the libraries of Presidents Nixon, Reagan, Kennedy and now Johnson and Carter. We hope to visit more someday.
We also had the chance to visit the
National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis and learn more about the assassination of Martin Luther King. We went to the home of Medgar Evers and learned about his murder and the work he did for civil rights. If you haven't seen the movie
Mississippi Burning, it would be a good one to rent to learn more about this time period and the need for civil rights for all Americans.
We visited the plantation of our 7th president Andrew Jackson call
The Hermitage outside of Nashville, TN. It was so interesting to visit this restored plantation and to travel back to the 1830s. We learned so much about life on a plantation and about the time period when Andrew Jackson was president. Which home would you rather live in? The President's home or slave quarters?
While we were in Atlanta we spend half a day visiting the
Atlanta History Museum were we learned more about the civil war and slave and plantation life during the civil war. We were mesmerized by the displays and information presented in the time period of 1861-1865 in the South. Our perspectives were broadened and we had several paradigm shifts as we learned more about the history of the south and how that history impacts us still today.
We saw some amazing historical sites while visiting the South. I could write many pages of information detailing all we saw and learned, but alas, I won't. When we travel we like to do a couple of things in the cities/states we visit. If we are in a capitol city, we like to visit the state capitol building. We visited the state capitols of Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas and Texas. Most state capitol buildings are beautifully constructed and they contain a lot of information inside about the history of that state. We also like to visit Presidential Libraries and on this trip we were fortunate enough to visit the Presidential Libraries of President Jimmy Carter and President Lyndon Johnson. We were young teenagers during the time that Johnson was President and we were newly weds during the era of Jimmy Carter's administration. Visiting their libraries is like going into a time machine. The library takes you back to the period of time that they served our country. There was A LOT going on in this country during the administration of Lyndon Johnson (watch the video to get some idea of what I'm referring to.) We remember a lot of the civil upheaval of the Vietnam war, the civil rights movement (and a bunch of other movements at the time) and great advancements in space exploration. We've been fortunate to visit the libraries of Presidents Nixon, Reagan, Kennedy and now Johnson and Carter. We hope to visit more someday.
We also had the chance to visit the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis and learn more about the assassination of Martin Luther King. We went to the home of Medgar Evers and learned about his murder and the work he did for civil rights. If you haven't seen the movie Mississippi Burning, it would be a good one to rent to learn more about this time period and the need for civil rights for all Americans.
We visited the plantation of our 7th president Andrew Jackson call The Hermitage outside of Nashville, TN. It was so interesting to visit this restored plantation and to travel back to the 1830s. We learned so much about life on a plantation and about the time period when Andrew Jackson was president. Which home would you rather live in? The President's home or slave quarters?
While we were in Atlanta we spend half a day visiting the Atlanta History Museum were we learned more about the civil war and slave and plantation life during the civil war. We were mesmerized by the displays and information presented in the time period of 1861-1865 in the South. Our perspectives were broadened and we had several paradigm shifts as we learned more about the history of the south and how that history impacts us still today.
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Oh how wonderful it would be to live on a big plantation. I think it's so cool that you visit the capital buildings when traveling... what a good idea!
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