Charlie and Adam were here today, and we celebrated with our End of the Summer Adventure. We ended up going into Charlotte to check out a museum we’d never been to before. I felt kind of bad, because we’d been planning on going hiking. With Charlie’s broken arm, though, I didn’t want to be doing anything where there was any possibility that he would fall – and the heat makes his arm itch like crazy, so we wanted to stay inside. So I picked this new place to check out sort of on the fly. I’m sure it wasn’t that great for them, but I absolutely loved it. It told the story of Charlotte and this area since the Civil War, and it really was SO well done. I really want to go back when I can spend more time checking it out. Lots of history of the textile mills in the area, which, since they are part of my family history, I always enjoy hearing about. 
There was sort of a mockup of downtown Charlotte during maybe the 1930’s, and a replica of a church. Big display about Billy Graham inside there, of course, but one of my favorite displays was this one of church funeral home fans. Talk about something out of my childhood. Loved it.