One Thing Led To Another

Last night I planned to go to the genealogy museum today but in the morning I changed my mind and went to the Frontier Museum. I learned about the Oregon Trail, the Santa Fe Trail, and the Mormon pioneers seeking religious freedom.

I learned Merriweather Lewis was an alcoholic.

90 % of the Oregon Trail pioneers made it to their destination.. This is a awesome museum.

Two blocks away is the house where Harry S. Truman lived from the day of his marriage until his death. I was disappointed to read I couldn't take a tour today. Then I walked down to the NPS Visitor Center where I learned I could take a tour today. I must have read that wrong. Yesterday I bought new reading glasses at the Dollar Store because I lost mine. They came in a purple bag. When I left the Visitor Center I couldn't find the purple bag. The ranger promised to call the Truman house if he found them. The tour was great. I loved seeing the sea foam green kitchen walls that Harry painted. We weren't allowed to take any photos inside the house. He had crates of stuff from the White House and he used that wood to make book shelves in the library. Thrifty guy. I like him because he is an accountable, stand-up guy. At one time he had the highest popularity rate of any President. By the end of his term he had the lowest popularity rate. Harry had to put this fence around the house because people kept taking souvenirs from the house and yard. When a woman stole his wife's white tulips, that was the straw that broke the camel's back. I did not know that during his Presidency he did not have a Vice President. There was no plan for that. As President he added an amendment to change that. When I came out of the house a park ranger told me they found my purple glass case.

Across the street is the Nolan house we watched a video of Margaret Truman, a correspondent for CBS, interview her parents in their house. Margaret was an opera singer and an author too. She had four sons.

Another five blocks away is Truman's boyhood home. The lady out front is raking leaves because the leaves covered the steps and she was afraid someone would fall. She said she gets 300 trick or treaters! Wow!

I walked back to pick up my glass case and on my way back to the car I saw the Truman Court House. Truman was a Judge. But he never finished High School. How can that be? He may have been uneducated but he was smart. How odd that he never wanted to be President. FDR asked him 3 times to be his VP and he said no. FDR found a way to persuade him.

I saw a long line of people waiting in line. I asked why they were waiting. They were waiting to vote early. Good for them I said.