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Bus-eum Tour, April 13 (Largo, FL) and April 17 (Englewood, FL)

Posted by Kim on April 07, 2010 at 9 a.m.
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According to the schedule, the museum bus has upcoming stops in Florida:

April 13, 2010 Largo Public Library, Largo, FL

April 17, 2010 Elsie Quirk Library, Englewood, FL

Those are the last stops on the list; not sure if more will be added.

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Bus-eum Tour: Held in the Heartland: German POWs in the Midwest 1943-46

Posted by Kim on April 07, 2010 at 8 a.m.
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We recently discovered an interesting traveling museum called "Held in the Heartland: German POWs in the Midwest 1943-46."

The tour is a part of a traveling exhibit program by TRACES. According to their site:

TRACES is a non-profit educational organization created to gather, preserve and present stories of people from the Midwest and Germany or Austria who encountered each other during World War II.

TRACES converted a 40-foot school bus into a mobile classroom and museum. On the bus:

The exhibit consists of 15 narrative display panels illustrated with photographs and documents, audio and DVD documentaries, artifacts and more.

The tour began in 2009.

More information:

See the next post for 2 upcoming stops in Florida.

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