Yesterday (I’m writing this early in the morning Friday, April 6th), we went to two places:

Mississippi Armed Forces Museum - Camp Shelby

Landrum’s Homestead and Village

The first was a very nice museum of showing ALL of the armed forces, Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard. The base was a Joint Services base federalized in 2004 for training for Afghanistan and Iraq. It had over 15,000 artifacts and was VERY well done. I took pictures of everyone outside in front of one of the helicopters there on display. There is also a panorama of 5 photos showing all the tanks. After the museum, we went to Landrum’s. I thought it was going to be dull and boring but I was surprised. You should have seen Mike, Steve, and myself with our piles of dirt as we “panned” them for treasures. We had so much fun, we “panned” twice. We then set the ladies up and had them go to the Mystery House. The whole house is completed tilted on both sides to the back corner. We watched them walk through the house and laughed as they bounced off the walls. We finished off the day with ice cream and shakes.

The photos for the day are here.

One really neat thing about having a wife who’s parents live in Topsham, Maine, is that we are only a mile from where Joshua Chamberlain’s house is located in Brunswick, Maine, just across the Brunswick-Topsham Bridge. The church, First Parish Church, where his father preached and Joshua attended is located there as well. His house is also located just across the street from Bowdoin College where he was a professor. His house is now a museum. Further down from the college is Pine Grove Cemetary where Joshua Chamberlain and some of his family are buried. To see pictures of the home, church, college, and gravesite, please visit my flickr website to see the images.