Columbia, Missouri

Harry S Truman Home, Independence, Missouri
Joe on board Ruth with 7th wedding anniversary flowers, Kansas City airport Leaving Charlotte Ready for Take-off
MU: Museum of Anthropology, Swallow Hall, with original Jefferson Marker (lower left) MU: Karyatid, plaster reproduction from the Erechtheion in Athens, ca. 421-406 B.C., Pickard Hall MU: charioteer, Gallery of Greek and Roman Casts, Pickard Hall MU: Pickard Hall, which houses mid-Missouri’s largest art museum
MU: Bronze Beetle Bailey, where Mort Walker (AB, ’48) first designed his famous cartoon character MU: Bronze Thomas Jefferson on Francis Quadrangle MU: Bronze Thomas Jefferson on Francis Quadrangle MU: Residence on Francis Quadrangle. Built in 1867, the oldest building on campus
MU: The University of Mussouri-Columbia Mizzou Tiger, and Jesse Hall MU: Jesse Hall on Frances Quadrangle MU: Memorial Union, honoring faculty and students who gave their lives for their country in war MU: The Columns, from the Academic Hall which burned in 1892, and the Engineering Complex

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Ruth’s Travelogue - November 9-12, 2003

Microsoft sent Joe to fix some email problems at the University of Missouri-Columbia Lewis & Clark buildings. We went to early church Sunday, then flew into Kansas City, Kansas. On the way out of town in Kansas City, Missouri, we toured the Harry S Truman home in Independence, a National Historic Site of Missouri, and ate a $2.99 buffet supper at Pizza Street, with umpteen varieties of pizza, fresh salad bar, and dessert selections.

Monday evening, on our 7th wedding anniversary, we enjoyed a fine dinner at Jack’s restaurant downtown. The next two mornings I rode onto campus with Joe and saw MU while he worked: Tuesday, a Veteran’s Day tribute at the Quadrangle, the Museum of Anthropology’s focus on Native American cultures across North America and on Missouri history from 11,200 years ago to the present, a stroll over the picturesque grounds, and a guest from the Smithsonian lecture on ceramics in the Engineering Complex auditorium; Wednesday, Pickard Hall, and Mizzou attractions like the original 1826 marker placed at Thomas Jefferson’s grave in Monticello, Virginia. We drove away from the university just past noon—Joe resolved the computer troubles a day ahead of schedule—and after about seven hours’ travel landed safely in Charlotte.

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