Friday, July 16, 2010

A Day with our 35th President

Our destination today was the JFK Presidential Library and Museum.

  Our plan...

Catch the Green Line T at Riverside travel to Park Street, pick up the Red Line T, and then take the free shuttle to the museum...but, somewhere between the campground and T, we decided to be brave and drive!

So, we passed up the

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subway, reprogrammed the GPS on my Droid, and

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along with everyone else, we headed into the city.

We passed

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under where we had walked just yesterday and

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with the help of the GPS, we soon found ourselves on

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on our way through Boston.

We arrived at

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Dorchester Bay, home of the University of Massachusetts and the

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JFK Library.

We started our self guided tour with a short movie that took us from his boyhood to his acceptance speech at the

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Democratic Convention.  The exhibits that followed took us right to the

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It was reported that he didn't even know he had been elected until he woke on the morning after the election.

We were reminded of those famous words from his

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inaugural address.

We saw the bill that was passed to establish

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the Peace Crops and our first efforts towards

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travel in space and our quest to reach the moon.

Then there was his

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his beautiful Jackie,

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his brother, Robert, who he was very close to, and

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South Pacific in WWII on the PT109.

After a walk through the

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oval office, we then

took a moment to remember

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this date in history.

As I posted this blurry photo, I don't know about you, but there is no blur in my memory about that day.  And, I remember staying glued to the TV for the days that followed.

We concluded our tour in this

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beautiful room.

Before leaving, we took a walk outside to view

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Boston across the bay.

Back on the road, we programmed in our next stop...

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the JFK birthplace in Brookline.  The Kennedy family lived here from 1914 to 1920.  With a growing family, they moved to

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this house, just a few blocks away.  They lived here until 1927.

Two great tours today to remember

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our 35th president.

3 comments:

  1. Great tour of the JFK Presidental Library. Great pics!! :)
    I also remember exactly where I was when the news came on that November day. Sad day!

    Mike & Gerri (happytrails)
    http://freedom2roll.blogspot.com

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  2. Thanks for the tour, as most everyone I can remember where I was when I heard and the disbelief that was felt even in an elementary school far away in Western Canada.

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  3. Great tour. Thanks for taking us along. Tell Mark hi.

    Blessings
    Bev

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