Saturday, September 12, 2009

PA #2: Independence Hall

Just call me your Philadelphia tour guide. I'll walk you through the tour of Independence Hall...

Here's the room that used to be the British court room (I have no idea what the room is actually called, because Katie was making the floorboards squeak and I was a little distracted.)


Across the hall is the Assembly Room where the Declaration of Independence was signed. I was highly intrigued by the green curtains...




And here's George...and my husband who likes to think he is George...


and that's it. Just a really long line, two rooms and a couple of statues.
It was actually really cool though. So many courageous acts happened in and around this one building - acts that we completely take for granted.


A little snippet about Independence Hall from wikipedia:

"From 1775 to 1783, Independence Hall served as the principal meeting place of the Second Continental Congress, a body of representatives from each of the thirteen British North American colonies. The United States Declaration of Independence was approved there on July 4, 1776, and the Declaration was read aloud to the public in the area now known as Independence Square. "

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