July 2nd with Ben

On Thursday, July 2nd, I went to the Oklahoma History Center with Nancy to hear Ben Franklin speak. He gave a good talk and told some interesting stories.





The quality of the pictures is not good. I was using my new cell phone which takes pictures of over 2 megabytes but I don't know how to save them to the card and when they save to the phone they resize them down to a few kilobytes. I guess I need to read the manual. The soldier in this photo with Ben is Ben Clark, the curator of the museum. He may be Mom's cousin!








This was held in the new Oklahoma History Center which was moved and renamed from the building south of the capitol which had the replica of the Liberty Bell in front of it. I haven't actually toured this new museum yet, but it looks very nice. This is the floor in the center as you enter.

Looking up from the inlaid wooden floor you see this plane,

and as you look out through the floor-to-ceiling windows you get a nice view of the state capitol building. It had been domeless, but a few years ago a dome was added with a statue of an Indian on the top.

I found this picture online of the Indian on the dome. I took it from someone's picture album who was from Russia! I translated a few comments and they liked this statue. But I also looked at a few other pictures and on one of downtown Okc they commented about Americans using cars to go everywhere. And something about the city streets being dead on the weekends. That is true.

http://kati-s.moifoto.ru/29073/f1586594 and then you can go to google to translate it.

http://translate.google.com/ This is a very handy site if you need something translated.