And the artist looks like James Carville’s evil twin.
Boulter’s Canary writes:
> I just don’t think it would occur to anybody in the UK to open a political theme
> park. I could be wrong, of course - somebody could be planning Thatcherworld
> right now.
This park appears to be a small addendum to Colonial Williamsburg, a reconstruction of the buildings in Williamsburg, Virginia to the state that they were in 1750 or so. The idea for this (and a few other similar places elsewhere in the U.S.) is to show tourists what that particular place looked like at some earlier point in U.S. history. Perhaps they aren’t actually very authentic. People complained that they didn’t bother to reconstruct the slave quarters for the houses in Colonial Williamsburg.
There’s something very similar in the U.K. - the stately homes. These are the mansions and castles belonging to aristocracy that they maintain partly as residences and partly as tourist traps. If they didn’t let the tourists visit, they wouldn’t have enough money to keep up the house and grounds and would probably have to sell the house to pay the taxes on it. Colonial Williamsburg and a few other similar places in the U.S. are, like the stately homes, tourist traps that claim to be historical theme parks.
Right, gotcha - it’s like the menagerie in the grounds of Longleat House (for example). Those who want (for want of a better word) ‘seriousness’ do the house tour. Those who don’t like that sort of thing head for the lions.
A nitpick: Chief Justice of the United States (28 U.S.C. Sec. 1).
JustAnotherGeek
I guess you are talking about this page?
http://www.presidentspark.org/1865_1897.html
Among other things, it goes from
Chester Alan Arthur
21st President
(1881-1885)
To:
Stephen Grover Cleveland
14th President
(1853-1857)
AND in a related story, their website states …
*The Park features 16-18 foot busts of all 43 Presidents of the United States
*
ALL 43 Presidents? I hope for their sake they have two of Grover Cleveland or else that’s false advertising.
That’s the one. I emailed the folks there. Once someone knew what I was talking about; he said he’d get on it. He mentioned something like; Funny, no one noticed that for two years… :dubious: also, my first message was something quite short like: the presidents are out of order on page 1865-1897. He had to ask for clarification. :smack: