Carl Henning

On the site of the Battle of New Market sits the Virginia Museum of the Civil War. It’s administered by the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) which had a real connection to the battle. There is information about the battle plus a chronological history of the war.

Our journey was mainly about visiting family and friends with some sightseeing thrown in, but this visit combined the two. Cowpens National Battlefield preserves the battlefield and some artifacts from this American Revolution battle.

Second stop on our East Coast journey was recommended by Claude, Soulé Steam Museum, also called the Mississippi Industrial Heritage Museum. Also, a brief tale of car trouble.

Exquisitely detailed dioramas are the main feature of the Louisiana Exhibit Museum although there are more typical museum artifacts too. The museum is housed in a circular, stately building. The building and dioramas were constructed beginning in the late 1930’s as part of the Roosevelt administration’s programs to get the unemployed to work.

Why “goodbye Nacogdoches”? And what’s a “Nacogdoches? Nacogdoches is the oldest town in Texas. And home to Stephen F. Austin State University from which our oldest Texas grandson just graduated. Which is why we bid a fond adieu to the city, the university, and the baseball field. But, we took this last opportunity to visit some sights.

A quarter-ton Giant Armadillo would have had a better chance against Texas drivers. And Mastodon beats human.

My Facebook feed bombarded me with ads for the Terracotta Warriors at the Houston Natural Science Museum. Since it is unlikely that I’ll get to China to see them in situ, the museum was the logical choice. The exhibit included a…

This game at Oglethorpe University was unique. Hermance Stadium looks like a Roman amphitheater. It was dedicated three days before the stock market crash of 1929. No further work was done on this football stadium. Oglethorpe eventually discontinued their football program. So these are now the seats for baseball.

The main purpose of this trip was to see a grandson commissioned as an officer in the Air Force. We found some interesting sights on Maxwell Air Force Base.

Google maps recommended the lighthouse in Biloxi. Discovered on the waterfront a statue; didn’t know who it was until I read the plaque. I thought it was a diver given the helmet, but no, an astronaut.