Saturday, June 27, 2009

Huntsville, Texas tourist


We decided to load up the family and play the tourist today in Huntsville. First stop was the statue of Sam Houston located on the south side of the city. It is the worlds tallest statue of an American Hero at 67 feet tall on a 10 foot sunset granite base.

From the visitor center we moved to the Sam Houston Museum located on the campus of Sam Houston University. First stop was to watch a 15 minute video on the life of Sam Houston in the Education Building. There were several quilt hanging on the walls that were interesting.

The Exhibit Hall held guns, indian artifacts, tools for building houses, cotton gin and tartans of Scottish - TEXAN imigrants. The Woodland House was a typical dog-run log cabin. The Streamboat house was more interesting by comparison. In fact, I believe it was consider an eye-sore.
The little pond on the site was more interesting to the twins instead of the exhibits. Turtles, fishs, ducks, geese, oh my. Thankfully we had the fore thought to bring crackers and bread.

The main museum was nice. There was plenty of Houston's personal effects and enough guns and swords to keep two eight-year boys entertain for a small period.

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