After today, I REALLY wish I had paid more attention to my high school history as well as what I was teaching my 5th graders. Seeing Independence Hall and where the Constitution of the United States was written, debated, re-written, and signed was amazing. The only remaining real piece of furniture is the chair that Gen. George Washington sat in. The other pieces are from the time period and match what is seen in historical paintings. Notice the gray paint? They have stripped the paint down to its original color (15 layers)!
The outside of the building is going through general maintenance and restoration, so we had to look around a good deal of scaffolding. What was kind of cool was that the covering over the scaffolding was imprinted with a picture of what the outside looked like. But what a bummer to come all this way not to see Independence Hall or the Reflecting Pond in Washington D.C. I doubt I will be back, so that was kind of sad.
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