No, animatronic William and Ida McKinley think YOU’RE the creepy one.

Seven days, nine museums. I’ve been counting Presidential burial sites from the beginning, but I hadn’t done the math on how many museums or museum-esque structures we visited on this trip till just now. In all that’s counting:

• the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums at Spiegel Grove
• the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House
• the Museum of Art at the Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute
• the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum
• the National Constitution Center
• the Betsy Ross House, which in my book has enough artifacts to qualify
• the Museum of the American Revolution
• the Heinz History Museum

…and the subject of our next chapter. It wasn’t a primary objective, but it was next door to one, and we had a little money left in the budget for their ticket prices. We figured why not add one more to the roster.

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