Trip to Kentucky History Center 3/20/10: Part 1

On March 20th we went to the Kentucky History Center in Frankfort, KY. It is actually a group of three neighboring museums, all run by the Kentucky Historical Society. The museums include the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History, the Old State Capitol and the Kentucky Military History Museum. In the next few posts, we are going to share the highlights of our trip through some of the pictures I took while we were there.

This is a picture of Princess before we went into the museum. Doesn't she look excited?!

These three pictures are pictures of Princess posing as some different soldiers in front of the "Military Treasures" exhibit in the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History.

The first exhibit we saw was called "A Kentucky Journey". It is the main exhibit at the museum and if you follow the path of the exhibit from beginning to end, it tells the story of Kentucky's history from prehistoric times until now.

This is a replica of a family in Kentucky who lived in the Prehistoric Age of Kentucky (prior to 1750 AD) before European settlers started to come there and it shows examples of the types of things they would have worn during this time and some of the tools they would have used as they went about the activities of their daily lives. In the near future, we will begin a chronological study of Kentucky history. When we go back to the museum in April, we will study this time period more closely, then we will take a field trip or two to other places in Kentucky that pertain to this time period.

This is a model of a commercial flatboat and a mural of a river port in Limestone, KY (now Maysville) during the Frontier Age (1750 - 1800 AD) of Kentucky.

This is a recreation of a Frontier Age log cabin home, similar to those poor families would have lived in during this time.

Back From a Long Break ...

Hello again, everyone! How long has it been since my last post? A year? Maybe longer? I had taken some time off to focus more on school with my dd, who is now six, and will be seven in June. We are still pursuing a classical model of education, but I have recently decided to relax some and enjoy school more, and take the time to treasure the opportunities we have to be together. I want my dd to have an excellent and challenging education, but at the same time, one of the main reasons I decided to homeschool was to have a close and influential relationship with my dd. That is something that is all too easy to lose sight of in the midst of the pursuit of academic excellence, especially when you combine that with working a full-time job. Therefore, I have been trying to streamline our formal academic time as much as possible and cover the rest in a more natural and relational way. One major change I have made is that I am trying to take more field trips with dd. My goal is to take at least one field trip each week. I made this change about three weeks ago, and so far we have been successful. I am hoping to keep a record of these trips on this blog, but past experience with said blog has taught me not to make any promises. I am going to try to include dd in the creation of these posts as much as possible, to increase her interest in writing and also as another relationship-building activity. We have three trips to post on so far (with pictures!) so we intend to get at least the first one up this week, but we'll see how it goes. Here's hoping for a more blog-filled future.