Mary Jean at the National Corvette Museum!The museum has some cool displays with older Corvettes in vintage scenes. The white Corvette on the right is from the very first year, 1953.Service station scene1958 Covertte, serial number 00002!Showroom sceneGarage sceneReal #3 driven by Dale EarnhardtHer dream car! 2020 Stingray!This is a cool picture of a Corvette, composed of small Corvette pictures…This dark circle is the headlight on the driver’s side.There are 7 generations of Corvette design. This is the first generation, represented by a 1962 model.1967 model from the second generation1977 model, 3rd generation1986 model, 4th generation2004 model, 5th generation2007 model, 6th generation2019 model, 7th generationIn 2014, the museum suffered a sink hole collapse that swallowed over $1 million worth of valuable Corvettes!These are some of the valuable Corvettes ruined by the sink hole collapse.Looking down 30 feet to the bottom of the sink holeThe red tape is the outline of the sinkhole.The Skydome today.This was the 1 millionth Corvette ever produced, and it hung on during the collapse and suffered very little damage. Miraculously, several Corvettes survived or were able to be restored.The museum conducts a raffle for a new Corvette every month. Each winner comes to the museum for the “Presentation”. Here, the winner of this blue Corvette is being taught about his new car.We watched as the winner of this Corvette drove away!The Bowling Green plant is the only plant in the world that assembles Corvettes.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN BIRTHPLACE NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK, HODGENVILLE KY
President Abraham Lincoln was born here on February 12, 1809. This was the first Lincoln Memorial! There are 56 steps up to the memorial building, representing one step for each year of Lincoln’s life. He was only 56 years old when he was assassinated in 1865.A replica of Lincoln’s birthplace house is inside the memorial.President Theodore Roosevelt (in top hat) laid the cornerstone on February 12, 1909, the 100th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth.This is Sinking Spring, which was the spring that provided water for the Lincoln farm.Sculpture of the Lincoln family in the Visitor Center. Abraham is the baby in his mother’s arms. The girl is his sister Sarah holding their father’s hand.Abraham Lincoln’s parents, Thomas and Nancy LincolnAbe certainly looked like his mother!Lincoln family BibleReplica of Knob Creek house, where young Abe lived as a boy. This is about 10 miles from the Sinking Spring farm.This field would have been farmland tended by the Lincolns.Statue of President Lincoln in the town center of Hodgenville KYYoung Lincoln reading, facing the Lincoln statue.Bucolic scene near Hodgenville
