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Statue of the Kingfish treats visitors to some down-home speechifyin'. Displays about Long's assassination, including the gun of the guy who (supposedly) killed him.
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Old State Capitol
- Address:
- 100 North Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA
- Directions:
- Old State Capitol. I-110 exit onto North Blvd, then east to the river. About a mile south of the current Capitol building. On the first floor.
- Hours:
- T-Sa 9-4 (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Phone:
- 225-342-0500
- Admission:
- Free
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
- Dorchester, Massachusetts - John F. Kennedy Museum
The place to go to see President Kennedy memorabilia not associated with his 1963 assassination, including a phonetic index card, "Ish bin ein Bearleener."
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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
- Address:
- 200 Morrissey Blvd, Dorchester, MA
- Directions:
- I-93/Hwy 3 to exits 14 or 15. Merge onto Morrissey Blvd and follow igns to the JFK Library and Museum and the University of Massachusetts.
- Hours:
- Daily 9-5 (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Phone:
- 617-514-1600
- Admission:
- Adults $12.00
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
The JK Lilly III Automobile Gallery is part of the Heritage Museums and Gardens in Sandwich, Massachusetts. It encompasses several separate exhibit halls and gardens. It is designed in the Shaker style and houses two floors of antique autos, including William Howard Taft's official Presidential Car.
[Ron Dwan, 12/30/2020]Taft's Steam Car:- Address:
- 67 Grove St., Sandwich, MA
- Directions:
- One of several museum at the Heritage Museums and Gardens.
- Hours:
- April-Oct. daily 10 am - 5 pm. (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Phone:
- 508-888-3300
- Admission:
- Adults $18.
- Annapolis, Maryland - Presidential Pet Museum
According to a local TV station website, the Presidential Pet Museum in Annapolis has closed its doors! No worries though, all of the museum's collection is moving to Presidents Park in Williamsburg, Virginia where it they will be displayed along with the park's 43 huge presidential busts. They hope to have all of the collection on display by Presidents Day 2008.
[Patrick Callahan, 01/03/2008]Presidential Pet Museum:- Hours:
- Gone
- Status:
- Gone
Barney Bush In Bronze At Prez Pet Museum
No one can say that Claire McLean isn't trying. The 73-year-old grandmother has opened her Presidential Pet Museum for the third time in eight years. It's now in a storefront in the Annapolis historic district, barely a block from the Maryland State House. The move from Claire's renovated barn in Lothian, Maryland, to a boutique-lined Annapolis avenue has significantly reduced the Pet Museum's exhibit space. Claire's goal, however, is to get exposure, and especially to draw attention from backers with deep pockets.
"We are a very small, humble museum," Claire told us, "but if we can go into the hands of a big corporation, like Del Monte" -- which has a large pet food division -- "they'll be able to invest millions of dollars into it."
We hope that Claire succeeds, because the only options for presidential pet tourists at the moment is the grave of Checkers, Richard Nixon's dog, and whatever small (perhaps temporary) tribute is deemed appropriate at each pet-friendly Presidential Library.
The White House has been home to over 400 pets, including a bobcat, an elephant, and an alligator. Woodrow Wilson had a tobacco-eating goat; Calvin Coolidge kept a pygmy hippo, and walked raccoons on the White House grounds. Claire's collection is sadly devoid of exhibits from the exotic animals, although she does have a portrait of Miss Beazley Bush made from the dog's hair; a portrait of Lucky Reagan made from that dog's hair (and crafted by Claire's mom), and a cowbell from Pauline Wayne Taft, the last cow to graze the White House Lawn.
"Whatever belongs to the pet," Claire notes apologetically, "usually ends up in the MASTER's museum."
On April 3, the mayor of Annapolis will visit the Pet Museum to unveil a life-size bronze of Barney Bush, a Scottish terrier. It's only the third statue of a presidential pet, according to Claire, joining a bronze Fala (another Scottie) at the FDR memorial in Washington, DC, and a copper statue of Laddie-Boy, Warren Harding's airedale, in the Smithsonian. "Newsboys saved their pennies to make the statue of Laddie," Claire told us. "He was more popular than Harding, just like Barney is more popular than Bush."
[04/01/2007]
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The steam-powered 1909 car was one of the few at the time big enough to haul around America's heaviest President.