EoT Painting and Adventure Club part III

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last week we had to go to Anniston to price out a paint job. we decided to make a day of it and go to the Berman World History Museum (or Berman Museum of World History, i don’t know what they call it). if i had to descibe the Berman Museum in one word it would be: guns.

they had things other than guns as well. museum-y things like:


suits of armor. i thought the middle one looked like he had to wazz.


no museum must be without a life-size diorama of some sort. i think it’s in the bylaws of museumship.

also at the Berman there were quite a lot of Remingtons. i’d say a dozen or more. i’m not sure if they’re part of the permanent collection or on loan.

they had some Napoleon stuff and quite a bit of Mussolini stuff. they had a kit of combs and brushes and other hair setting stuff that supposedly belonged to Napoleon. they had Ns on them anyway.

more guns!

they had lots of little figures/statues from all over and about all over.


Cossack!


Conquistador!


Zouave!

remember how John Surratt, Lincoln assassin co-conspirator, escaped to Canada and across the Atlantic and made it into Vatican City and joined the Papal Zouaves there? and remember how, you’d think that back in the 1860s that would be a great way to escape because who and how in the hell would they ever find you? but that they did catch him? and then he escaped again, this time to Egypt. but remember how they caught him again? and then, remember how he was tried, but kind of got away with it all even though HIS MOTHER HAD BEEN HANGED FOR THE SAME CRIME?

OH SURE, ACT LIKE I’M THE ONLY ONE.

what?

oh yeah?! WELL MAYBE YOU SHOULD READ A BOOK ONCE IN A WHILE.

the museum had lots of WWI&II displays. and i especially liked to see all the medals from the different countries.

yes, there was a dead wasp in the display case. i can’t tell you the glee i felt when i saw it, knowing i’d get to pull the thorax gag again. (heh. thorax gag.) (READ A BOOK)

there was a whole section of Asian jade, statues, and glassware. but the lighting was really dark, and most of my pictures came out a bit blurry.


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