Thanks for the images and good on you for being a docent.
I volunteered at the Smithsonian Museum of Am. History and got to meet some interesting staff and see behind/help with some exhibits.
Very rewarding for you I am sure.
David Graves
Small world! When I was a high school kid I also volunteered there summers when it was still called the "National Museum of History and Technology". Three days a week I was a tour guide, while twice a week I worked in various behind-the scenes departments. It was my first exposure to what I call "Tourist Glaze Gaze", that sort of daft fog which tourists subjected to too much novel visual stimulus plod through, where their cerebral cortex just sort of goes "Tilt!" and ramps down processing, giving them a strange unfocused or even cross-eyed demeanor. For example, waiting to take out tours every half hour, I would sit at an info desk directly underneath the Star Spangled Banner ("made in 1813 out of English wool bunting by Mrs. Mary Pickersgill.."), back before they covered it with a retracting screen that nowadays rolls up every hour on the hour for a quick peek of the flag for conservation purposes. On the desk, directly below, there was a sign which read, "Bathrooms located behind and to the right of the flag". At least a hundred times a day dazed-looking visitors would roll up to the desk, directly under the four storey high Star Spangled Banner, arguably THE flag, struggle to read the sign, blink sub-moronically a few times, and ask, "Where's the flag?"
As an aftereffect of these Summer experiences at the Smithsonian, to this day, because of its "Hall of First Ladies", I believe that while I could probably name all the First Ladies, I might struggle to name all the Presidents.
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