The Woodrow Wilson Library

Thursday, July 30 

Had to wait for the guy to come repair the step, so I took a nice walk up through the regular camp sites.  We are parked in the cinder lot near the entrance, as we made late arrangements, and I was curious what else was available.  The sites up there are so pleasant!  The walk up took me through heavy wooded area where there are tent sites, and cabins, up to pull throughs, some with decks, and some with really nice big cement patios and grills!  The sites along the lake get a lovely breeze….would be very pleasant.  

The step could not be repaired, so is wired up, and we will use the old tech way of a folding bench to get in and out!  But he came in good time, and we set off for our day's excursion.  

 Or sixth Presidential Library to visit, The Woodrow Wilson home and Library tour was interesting, but surprising, in that he only lived there from birth to 18 months!  While we learned some interesting things about the times, the tour was really about his parents, rather than him as a man and our president.  Not even much about him as a child!  We needed Professor Watson at FAU!  The museum was really not much, and gave us little insight into his term in office other than a brief mention of various accomplishments, and little or no backup information.  It would have been interesting to go more into Child Labor and Suffrage, and I am not sure why they didn't do that.  They do own the second largest collection of his records and papers....one would think more would be made of their contents.   

Recreation of bunkers, which some criticized for being so neat and clean, and nothing like the actual thing during war. 

We walked downtown, to find the supposed charming stores, and found little of interest other than the gelato store, which of course we had to sample!  It was very good , and cooled and refreshed us on a hot humid day!  

Because of the heat, we skipped the Cultural Museum, an outdoor recreation/reenactment of the farms of the settlers, and headed to the pet store and grocery store to restock our larders!  Dinner in the coach in the AC, with a rotisserie chicken and fresh corn on the cob and veggies…..I am now awaiting dessert of….finally….a whoopee pie!!  I kept resisting buying them in PA for some reason, though they were plentiful, but we fell prey tonight!  I will go take a walk while Clem cleans the cat box…naturally he does not want to walk with me…..and then we will relax and have dessert!  Leave tomorrow for NC to visit the cousins and Uncle Frank.