Quonset Air Museum
Air Museum Site
Last thrusday the ladies and I went to see the Quonset air museum, I had never been but have always heard amazing things. There is a little back ground on the museum.
"The birthplace of the US Navy, Quonset Point goes
back to the Revolutionary War, when a guard was placed there to watch
for British warships that might sail up Narragansett Bay to raid coastal
Rhode Island cities.
By the late 19th Century, Quonset Point had become the State
Camp Ground for the Rhode Island Militia and, later, the Rhode Island
National Guard. During the Spanish American War, the conflict in Mexico
and World War I, troops trained at Quonset Point.
During World War II, NAS Quonset Point served on
the front lines of the war against the U-boats. Numerous land-based and
carrier-based anti-submarine squadrons trained and shipped out from
Quonset and these accounted for many U-boats sunk and many merchant
ships saved. During the war, the base was also on the cutting edge of
research in airborne radar and electronics systems. "
The bluiding itself is amazing, all the weathering on the outside and on the inside too from all those years! Oh it was so cool to see all those huge air crafts and missiles!
We had to have spent about two and a half hours there just going back to some of the planes and reading every little detail we could! I felt so small next to all the planes! It was a great trip and all the gentlemen working there that morning were great! Oh how they had us laughing!
URI - Botanical Gardens
The website must have been down because for some reason it wasn't loading for me ... hmm well the garden blog is really cool! What a great idea for others to track the progress of the plants!
Can you tell I really really like taking photos of flowers? I loved this visit it was wonderful and the perfect weather for it too here in RI it had just cooled off for a bit.
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Last stop we went blueberry picking! It was so yummy!
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