Possibly my favorite thing in the entire museum was the Wright Brothers plane. The actual First in Flight plane. How is that even possible? The museum had replaced the fabric, although the original fabric was on display in a case there in the exhibit, and one of the propellers had broken on a subsequent flight, so it had been replaced – again, the original was still there in the exhibit. Just very, very cool.
We could only take pictures in one room in the Archives, so when Lindee texted that she hoped we had pictures of the Mallory and Charlie in their costumes, we went tearing up there to get pictures made before the final program of the evening began. Here are our Clara Barton and our young George Washington. It really was just a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Wow.