Geek Squad took Grammar Queen, Fire Shot, Laser Boy and me to the Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site which is only 20 minutes away from the house.
(Note, Grammar Queen is holding up the "W" which was loose and crooked, which of course bothered her so much. It wasn't a grammar issue, but it needed editing.)
Here we are outside the birthplace next to the well.
We're inside the interpretive center watching a short film about the life of Walt Whitman. Geek Squad and I found the narrator's voice particularly soothing and we both took short little naps during the video. Fortunately, the video was short. In the interpretive center they had a wonderful hands-on display of children's games from the era. We played tic-tac-toe, they had a Jacob's ladder, we tried our hands at the "cup in ball" where the ball is on a short string and you try to catch it in the cup. My favorite was Jacks. Neither Fire Short nor Laser Boy had ever played Jacks before! We had a lot of fun trying it out. Geek Squad even bought two sets of Jacks in the gift shop so we could play some more when we got back home.
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