Greetings all! My apologies for the book length post last week. Since then, our classes have gone back to normal. Our history class is over but that does not mean that we have learned all about Scottish history that there is to learn. This week for our field trip we did not visit a Covenanter site but a more commonly visited site. One of the elders in the church, Sam, took the four of us to the Glasgow Museum. Here we were greeted by an array of faces. In the first main displays that you go through inside there are faces, each with a different expression, hanging from the ceiling above the busts of more recognizable faces (the Queen Mother being among them). As in every museum, on display are things of both national importance as well as international renowned. Featured were works of Rembrandt, mementos of Queen Mary of Scots, and a Spitfire plane from World War II. Oddly enough, there were also different icons of America about the Museum. I happened upon statues of President F D Roosevelt and Elvis. We were fortunate enough to be able to see Salvador Dali's "Christ of St. John on the Cross". It would be unfair to say that I saw all that there was to see there in my short visit or that I could relate everything that I did see. Museums are among the few places that the history buff and tourist could visit together and both enjoy.
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