Across the street from the park, there are numerous places to eat but once Joyce spotted Toby Keith's, the decision was made for lunch.
Toby Keith's "I Love This Bar & Grill" was our lunch stop.
The Bombing Memorial was about five blocks away and it was hot and humid. It took us about a half hour to get there from the river-walk.
The building located behind what was the building destroyed, is now a Museum for the memorial. One of the rooms within this building was blown in and full of rubble. This room was preserved as it was after the bombing. Whereas the room was located in the building behind the building bombed, it was totally destroyed. It is amazing what 4000 pounds of explosives can do. A total of 16 buildings were destroyed from the blast. The museum was very informative, but very sad to walk through.
This is a section of the fence that was erected around the Bomb site during the clean-up. After the building was demolished and the memorial completed, the fence was lifted by survivors and family members of the dead and moved to outside of the memorial area.
This tree is located in what was the parking lot behind the building. The car that were parked around and under the tree were totally destroyed and burnt from the heat of the blast. Although the tree was badly burnt, it survived the blast and fires, because of this the tree has been named the "Survivor Tree".
Walking back to the parking lot five blocks away, we spot another Buffalo. These Buffalo statures are scattered around the city.
1 comment:
Hi ....Becky A. and Pam say hi !! Bridge kids from D-R moved back to Seekonk ! Becky is doing fantastic--much like my old Becky!! Love to look at all your travels and photos!! I only wish .....maybe in my next life I can do something like you guys are. You go guys ...explore and have a blast!! Pam
Post a Comment