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Many years ago in the 1980's, when our youngest daughter, Gretchen, was two years old, we brought her and her older sister to the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. This was her first visit to the museum. We started at the top floor and worked our way down. There was an exhibit about Egypt at that time and there was a mummy with lots of the Egyptian writing that she carefully studied. She was fascinated with that whole exhibit. After we went through the entire museum, I told both girls we had time to visit one more gallery of their choice. Her request was to see the mummy again.
That experience sparked a lifetime interest in the Egyptian culture for her. She collected every item she could over the years and was very knowledgeable about Egypt. She lives in London now and she was able to go on her dream vacation the year before the recent uprisings by going on a cruise down the Nile river, taking in all the sights and riding on camels to see things and places she had only read about or seen documentaries on. I can only imagine the culmination of feelings she must have had to be able to do this.
Last winter when she was visiting our family, we stopped at the museum and she was able to go through the current Egyptian exhibit at the museum with her young niece and nephew. Of course, I had to repeat that story again of how Aunt Gretchen first learned about Egypt when she was only two years old and came to this same museum for her first visit. Gretchen went to Egypt two times—once in her dreams at the Indianapolis Children's Museum when she was two years old, and then as a young adult as she sailed down the Nile River.
Name: Maureen Northacker, member for 6 months
That experience sparked a lifetime interest in the Egyptian culture for her. She collected every item she could over the years and was very knowledgeable about Egypt. She lives in London now and she was able to go on her dream vacation the year before the recent uprisings by going on a cruise down the Nile river, taking in all the sights and riding on camels to see things and places she had only read about or seen documentaries on. I can only imagine the culmination of feelings she must have had to be able to do this.
Last winter when she was visiting our family, we stopped at the museum and she was able to go through the current Egyptian exhibit at the museum with her young niece and nephew. Of course, I had to repeat that story again of how Aunt Gretchen first learned about Egypt when she was only two years old and came to this same museum for her first visit. Gretchen went to Egypt two times—once in her dreams at the Indianapolis Children's Museum when she was two years old, and then as a young adult as she sailed down the Nile River.
Name: Maureen Northacker, member for 6 months
