When I was growing up, my family was
a member of the Smithsonian. Though we
lived in CT, every few years we would take a trip to DC and visit the
museums. I mostly remember three things
about those trips – eating in the fancy red brick building, no food trucks, and
having to park miles away and my dad and I invariably being sent off to
retrieve the car to pick up my mom and sisters.
Unfortunately, my memories of the museums themselves are bit more vague.
What I also remember is that every month we would get the
Smithsonian Magazine. I could sit on my
bed and travel the world just by turning its pages.
In this modern age, the Smithsonian footprint has expanded
to include so much more including a blog titled Past
Imperfect. I first found out about this blog via a post
titled The Civil War: 8 Strange and Obscure Facts You Didn’t Know.
This is a great blog to feed the inner historian that
resides in all genealogists!
What other history
blogs do you like to read?
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