Sunday was a beautiful day so we set off to the Lake District of New Hampshire, specifically to visit a museum recommended to Dan. We were not sure what we would find there because the website didn't do justice to what was on exhibit. We were pleasantly surprised and spent a good two hours exploring the exhibits.
This was the first thing we saw out front and we were expecting more of the same inside.
Inside was this Clubmobile.
You'll have to enlarge the next photo to read it. Fascinating stuff I never knew.
We watched a movie in a theatre then entered the Home Front Gallery. This was the major emphasis of this museum: what was happening in the US during WWII. I captured just a minute part of what was on exhibit.
Here are some great cartoons of the time.
I never remember my mother talking about these times. She would have had ration books. My oldest brother was born in January 1942 and my oldest sister in November of 1944. My Dad enlisted as a chaplain before my sister was born and served in Hawaii, Fiji Islands, and New Caledonia.
From the Home Front Gallery we entered a year by year gallery. What I captured here primarily was the year by year prices.
Then in a very large area we have the machines of war.
With a gallery above on the various services.
It is quite a museum worth visiting if you're in the area.
Wolfeboro was a busy place on Sunday. I think rentals must turn over then. We lucked out and found a Mexican restaurant off the main drag, with parking across the street where we ate lunch before we visited the museum.
A day well spent!
And around the world we still go to war, routinely and daily. In Europe we are once again obliterating cities and slaughtering and displacing people. We get worse, not better, and we keep inventing weapons to inflict every greater destruction. What an enlightened species we are!
ReplyDelete...the Clubmobile is new me and it sure is neat.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great museum. I too would have spent hours there. My parents bought their first house in 1942, the year I was born. At one point they had all the siding removed so it could be insulated (this was in Dallas TX). The rationing was never mentioned by my parents. My father was a bookkeeper at an airplane plant.
ReplyDeleteinteresting place to visit
ReplyDeleteThat's a nice museum. My WW2 Army Dad went to college and med school on the GI Bill. I took his pilfered Nazi helmet and flag to my elementary school once for "show and tell". I wouldn't be able to do that these days. One of his 2 Army trucks has been repainted and passed down to several grandkids as they went to college. Made a great a coffee table in the middle of small dorm rooms. Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteFascinating! I love the kitchen! And how sad that it takes a world war to really bring out the best in us as a nation.
ReplyDeleteAnother great book about women as doughnut and coffee makers is from WWI, The War Romance of the Salvation Army, by Grace Livingston Hill. Thank you for your post on this fascinating museum. I wish we still lived in New Hampshire - I would go see it!
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