April Fool’s day came a day late when our Magical Mystery Tour plans were a bit altered, but not cancelled. Some outside stops, though listed here, where not made and the cemetery tour was a drive-through, although we were briefly convinced that the gate we had driven through was locked behind us.
Craig takes a ride in the propane exhibit.
Duncan checks out the big machines at NMIH.
- Benchwarmer’s Coffee, West Reading
- Hoover-Mason Trestle
- Visitor Center at Steel Stacks
- Millenium Folk Arch and Art Enclave – snow cancelled
- National Museum of Industrial History – our primary destination where we also witnessed the moving of a Linotype for a new exhibit there in May.
- Nisky Hill Cemetery – link shows a few interesting markers we found just driving around.
- Fegley’s Brew Works
- Moravian Book Shop
After taking Uke 2 to Massachusetts for the Thoreau Gathering I decided I needed something that could be knocked about more to travel, but I definitely wanted one to travel. There’s a Music & Arts store in Vernon, outside Hartford Connecticut where I found this little soprano Kohala cheap that sounded pretty good. It was difficult to keep from playing a new uke, so the next stop at a roadside rest provided some opportunity. Replaced later by a plastic uke for traveling, it now finds a permanent home at my training center for breaktime when I’m working there alone… not during classes.
My second ukulele was bought at 
We departed from our usual Monday tour and went on a Tuesday in order to visit the Museum on Industry in Baltimore and see the Linotype there. It was, in fact, a relatively normal tour, normal in the way that it was NOT like our usual… unusual spots tours. It was non-the-less a great day pretty much spent in two museums that are very much worth the visit. It was especially good visiting the B&O with Craig in tow, who has become a walking database of train history and who was able to answer our questions and point out unusual aspects of the collection even better than the local docents there.
