I took over 350 photos of our trip, but the following were particularly interesting to people who love McKinley or Canton history! So here you go...........highlights from DC!
These things were in McKinley's pockets when he was shot in Buffalo!
Smithsonian Museum of American History
This was a handwritten note about a plot to assassinate McKinley a few years before it actually happened -- it wasn't the same plot that killed him.
Smithsonian Museum of American History
The 1909 Wright Military flyer that the Wright brothers used to teach Frank P Lahm how to fly! I wrote about Lahm in Canton's Pioneers in Flight, so it was SUPER COOL to see this plane in person!
National Air & Space Museum
I also wrote about Bernetta Miller in both Canton's Pioneers in Flight and Canton's West Lawn Cemetery. She was the 5th woman in the United States to earn her pilot's license. It was 1912. She was way ahead of her time.
National Air & Space Museum
This is the Gordon Bennett Cup, the trophy given to the winner of the first international balloon race! Most people wouldn't even know what that is, probably, but I wrote about it in Canton's Pioneers in Flight because Frank P Lahm won it in 1906!
National Air & Space Museum
The mast of the USS Maine, which exploded in 1898 and was the catalyst of the Spanish-American War during McKinley's first term as President. Very powerful.
Arlington National Cemetery
The base of the mast.
Arlington National Cemetery
A cute little chipmunk running around the bottom of the USS Maine mast!
Arlington National Cemetery
Frank P Lahm learned to fly at College Park.
College Park Aviation Museum
Frank P Lahm artifacts.
College Park Aviation Museum
Bernetta Miller demonstrated the monoplane for the US government at College Park in 1912.
College Park Aviation Museum
THIS is the runway where all of it happened. Lahm and Miller both flew here. I swear as we stared out at the airstrip, we could actually SEE it happening. History coming alive...
College Park Aviation Museum
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