In the footsteps of Laura Bush...

Trip Start May 05, 2009
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Trip End May 09, 2009


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Friday, May 8, 2009

Well!  Today I managed to be fully operative by 9 AM and we were off to Dallas again, immeasurably aided by Mapquest (so much nicer than the Bossy Tart GPS).  Found our way via many freeways to Southern Methodist University, alma mater of LB, and better yet, site of a small but wonderful museum called the Meadows Museum, right on campus.  Which is very leafy (campus, not museum).  Wandered around the campus in the heat, post-museum, and found a plaque dedicating a walkway to LB, present from husband George W. in recognition of her work on literacy (J. found this ironic, given GB's lack of).  A smallish college (11,000), with young women with thousand dollar Louis Vuitton totes/purses.  You get the picture.

Then more labyrinth of freeway, more ample thanks to the God of Mapquest, and we reached Fair Park, site of the 1936 World's Fair, many art deco buildings remaining, mostly museums.  An absolutely wonderful Women's Museum (in Dallas!), inspirational, video intro by Ann Richards, all kinds of women who have excelled in every field you can think of.  A girls' school from Austin was there on a field trip, very studiously writing up a photography exhibit of ranch women (one of whom was from Inverness, for God's sake!).

Souvenir of the day (stay with me here): a fan of the type my mother had to leave notices to the milkman in the old days, with several vertical markers, each the size of a book mark,  indicating whether you wanted whole milk or cottage cheese or whatever.  This particular fan had a vertical marker for every modern first lady, including Michelle O. !!! Bought it on the spot.  Saleswoman looked a little surprised.  I don't think they're big sellers. Laura Bush had been at the museum the night before for a ceremony and there were (expensive) and exotic flower arrangements all over the place.

Then to the Dallas Holocaust Memorial Museum, small but well done; they're raising money for a much bigger one. ANd now to dinner with David and Michele.  Still hotter than hell.  Still feels like a steam bath outside.  All the lawns are coarse, green-green grass; seems as though they should be withering.

Officially had it with Dallas.  Seen enough.  Wish the Women's Museum were in SF.  Imaginative design and so much to say.
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