Check out this Liberty Bell photo! Doesn't it look like the bell is walking? There were hoards of folks wanting to be photographed in
front of the bell, so I got what I could. This was a cool piece of history. Did you know that the crack was made wider - like you see today- so that it would sound better? With the original crack the metal vibrated against itself and the tone was apparently awful, so they drilled it out to what you see today.
Everything we saw including the grave site of Benjamin Franklin shown below, was really neat to see, but our little 200 years of history does not compare with the 2,000 years of history we just saw in Israel!
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