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Adventrue In March of 2008 our family of four (plus 1 dog) hit the road for a yearlong tour of the United States focusing on American History. This website is our journal from start to finish. Here we have passed along how we homeschooled on the road and specifically what we learned about American history. We've also provided some lesson plans and activity suggestions so that you can learn too!  Continue...
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20081209_6144.jpg Atlanta.  There is so much to do.  We stayed for a week and barely scratched the surface.  For starters, we stayed at the Stone Mountain park campground during the Stone Mountain Christmas celebration.  We had lots of fun watching live Christmas shows, the 4-D Polar Express Movie, drinking hot chocolate and riding the Christmas Carol Train.  Later, we visited Centennial Olympic Park for some ice skating.  It was the first time the boys had ever been, and they came away with a few bruises, but smiles on their faces.  For dinner we sampled a burger from the Varsity and heard the famous "What'll you have?". 

Along with the fun and games we hit a few history highlights.  First, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site.  We toured the museum and Dr. King's boyhood home, then the boys completed the Jr. Ranger program.  The next day we visited the Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum.  In the Cyclorama is the largest painting in the world, depicting the Battle of Atlanta.  It was painted by German artists in 1885-86, covers more than 15,000 square feet and weighs more than 10,000 pounds!  There was a 3-dimensional foreground added to the painting in 1936 that really brings it to life.  To view the painting, you sit on a rotating platform that slowly turns you around.  It's really stunning, and the story told by the tour guide as you make the journey really adds to the painting.  If you look closely you'll find a soldier that looks like Clark Gable and amazingly only one African American.  It's very unique and definitely worth seeing.
 
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