Again we stopped because it looked interesting. This time it’s the Rocky Mount State Historic Site. When we walked through the door of the main house we stepped back in time to 1791 as costumed interpreters welcomed us to experience life in the earliest days of the United States. George Washington was president, tea was a precious commodity and carefully guarded, important papers were bound in red ribbon, linen was raised, processed, spun, and woven on site, and each individual owned only one set of clothes at a time. It’s amazing how much life has changed in 218 years and yet how much it’s the same.
Imperial War Museum
London’s Imperial War Museum in Southwark founded even as the First World War raged offers insights into the myriad costs of the wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries. It was a most disquieting but valuable reminder of the myriad costs of war.
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