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Monthly Archives: January 2008

Glen Echo Park and WW2

Monday, January 21, 2008

So I took a spin over to Glen Echo Park in MD last SAT to see, of all things, a puppet show. Situated next to the Clara Barton House in Glen Echo (near Cabin John), this place has been a destination since the 1890s. In fact, when queried, my father-in-law told me [...]

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Michael Korda’s Ike

Friday, January 11, 2008

A few months back, I linked to a book review in the Washington Post detailing Michael Korda’s new book, Ike: An American Hero. That post is here. In the December 2007 Smithsonian magazine, Korda writes about Eisenhower in a feature length piece that is most certainly visual, though it offers little in the [...]

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Battlefield 1942

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Every once and a while, I dig into a box filled with old computer games and load Battlefield 1942. I own a few WW2-themed FPS type games, but this one went above and beyond, especially on the multiplayer side of things. Now I don’t game much anymore (got to work), but I did enter the Market [...]

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WW II Museums

Friday, January 4, 2008

Peter Chen over at ww2db.com recently visited the West Point Museum and Visitors Center in New York state.  A report of his visit is here.   In recent years, I’ve had the good fortune to visit the National Museum of the Marine Corp and the World War II Memorial in DC.  Both of these reports are hosted at the ww2db [...]

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