Memorial Day In The Old Folks’ Home — All Series On Hold

The day was pretty nice – a good temperature in a sunny day.  That made it a nice day  for those heading to the cemetery to pay their respects individually.  Some people had other ideas, like family get togethers and the likes of cookouts.  The old folks’ home is full of people with difficulty in getting around, so all such were in play.  However, over a dozen small size flags were on display along the traffic island in the parking lot in front of the building ringing what landscaping is usually on display there.  Apparently a food event was scheduled in the ground floor community room, but enough residents were other places, like sitting out front, to suggest many were not in a party mood. 

As was fitting somehow, the fire alarm went off in the late afternoon.  Evidently a fire of some sort did exist if the number of firefighters in gear in the main lobby then were an indication.  At least one lady who said she was going to the event was there amid the firefighters, and three pieces of equipment (including the ladder truck) were out in front of the place.  Otherwise, the feeling of the place was more or less like a Sunday, only there was no sense of any church-going in the air.  Such places, naturally, are unique according to the residents.  In the building underfoot a number of the permanent folks are veterans leading to a sense of specialness about the day. 

Personally speaking, it was necessary to be doing a few things in regard to setting up the new apartment acquired this past Tuesday especially since someone to help did not have to go to work.  The usual quiet pause for a little while became secondary in favor of getting the refrigerator restocked as in the moving things were just rather dumped in bags and shoved in the new one in a haste to get out of the old place.  Moving was only from one apartment to another and the building management needed the old place in a hurry for some construction work.  In the beginning the intention had been a two-day move out instead of a one-day move. 

They say good days come eventually. 

Aviation Trail – Part 7

Aviation Trail – Part 2 (below) has mentioned the travel leaflet.  And, also mentioned in various places are two pertinent books and that there are National Landmarks among a lot of all of this matter.  While someone looking into it can find information, it is fitting to include a few lists of things in this little part of the world as well.  It is not all there is, but it’s a possible start for some.  Overall, it can be very confusing.  To begin with, Aviation Trail can provided at least four other leaflets at this time (May 2014).  In addition to that travel leaflet, there’s a guide for a bicycle trail connecting some pertinent sites, a teddy bear project, parachute museum information and a nice historic type item. 

The current places that are local aviation related U. S. National Landmarks (that is, the places under the administration of the U.S. National Park service in the immediate area of Dayton that are related only to aviation, not all the Landmarks in the area and not all of the aviation related historic sites in the area) are the following:  that Wright Brothers’ bicycle shop near Third & Williams, Paul L. Dunbar home, the airplane at Carillon park (not the entire park), Huffman prairie at the air base, all of which are listed in the travel brochure, and Hawthorn Hill, Orville Wright’s home.  Hawthorn Hill is open only under special circumstances and the Dunbar house is not always listed individually.

The travel leaflet (brochure) lists these places as points of possible interest:  1.  Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center and Aviation Trail Visitor Center (start out)  2.  Aviation Trail Parachute Museum (nearby)  3.  The Wright Cycle Company   4.  Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum  5.  Carillon Historical Park  6.  Wright "B" Flyer  7. Historic WACO Field & WACO Airplane Museum  8.  National Museum of the United States Air Force 9. The  National Aviation Hall of Fame 10. Wright State University (papers) 11. Wright Brothers Memorial  12. Huffman Prairie Flying Field Interpretive Center  13. The Huffman Prairie Flying Field.  They are in different areas of town. 

There are times to look around home.