Class Trip

Last Friday I went with Gabrielle's 6th grade team to the Winston Churchill Museum and Memorial on the campus of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. In the morning we toured the museum. The kids had a scavenger hunt to find the answers to questions about Churchill's life and legacy. It was actually at Westminster College where he gave his famous "Iron Curtain" speech being introduced by President Harry Truman. We ate lunch in the college's dining hall (one kid said it was like eating at Hogwarts. I don't know about that, but it did have a nice ceiling and it was much better food than I had in college). In the afternoon, we got to see the outdoor sculpture Breakthrough. One year after the November 9, 1989, fall of the Berlin Wall, President Ronald Reagan dedicated Breakthrough, an 11-foot-high by 32-foot-long structure sculpted from 8 sections of the Berlin Wall by artist Edwina Sandys, granddaughter of Winston Churchill, as the centerpiece of the Cold War Memorial on the Westminster campus. Following that presentation we toured the beautiful chapel. Twice destroyed by fire, the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury uses the phoenix as it's symbol. Dating from the 12th century, it was redesigned by Sir Christopher Wren in 1677 after the Great Fire of London. Left in ruins by World War II, the architectural masterpiece was saved from demolition by the bold idea to move it to the Westminster campus where it was reconstructed and restored. Here are a few pictures from our visit to this amazing historic memorial.