The official banner
The official banner
Many of the group, picture taken at the Art Musuem.
Night before the official start; some people are already in town, including Mother.
Glen & Anne, Roger, and Alan paralleled the group on Monday's excursion to the
Great Lakes Science Center. This is the an exhibit moved here from NASA Glenn.
Roger is taking a turn trying to land the space shuttle.
heat shield on the capsule; you can see that it took a beating.
creating a thin soap film
We brought in Domino's pizza for our family and Margie's group for dinner that night.
the traditional jigsaw puzzle
hospitality suite
On Tuesday, Alan and Anne joined the group on the bus tour. We started at the Art Museum.
The Hubbell connection for the Art Museum is that a Hubbell was the original architect of the
building over 100 years ago.
Amazingly, the staff got out the old blueprints and actually allowed us to look and handle them.
Then on to view some of the artwork.
Alan liked this one.
The museum also has a collection of medieval armor and weaponry.
Anne was fascinated with Maximillian's armor.
Box lunches in a private dining room.
Alan particularly wanted to revisit these paintings after lunch. We had
about 20 minutes while most of the group went to the gift shop.
Anne found these faces from 2000 years ago compelling.
Next stop: The Crawford Auto and Aviation Museum.
The Hubbell connection here is the display of Charles Hubbell's aviation paintings.
These, too, are the work of Charles Hubbell.
The 'auto' part of the museum.
And then there was the historical home portion of the museum with beautiful ceilings...
... and period fashions. They also had a collection of consumer ads from the mid-1900's,
and political memorabilia. And a carousel!
Next stop: the Botanical Gardens.
Prairie Mallow
Love this wall next to a fountain.
John A. Hubbell and Barbara Kruse.
Back to the hotel and the hospitality suite. We inveigled cousins into trying
Apples-to-Apples.
If you are the attributes you win in this game, Kitty is disgusted with Margie's collection.
Anne and Mother enjoy lunch together on Thursday.
Thursday night's banquet.
Margie accepts the gavel from Pete Hansen as the new President of THFHS.
Aunt Mary Kimmel.