AP US History tour of the east coast

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Anonymous wrote:Op again- I am going to pair this trip with the series “The men who built America” and we saw the play Suffs earlier this year. To be honest, this is really my dream trip, and the kids will be there as my companions. I will also be playing women-centered historical fiction that adds context to our sites on trip. Do, it’s true, my two teen boys may get annoyed, but this is there only option, so they have to suck it up.

Man, I hope this is sarcasm cause I don't even know where to start.

I’m not OP but I get this — sometimes you want to do the vacation you want to do, and it’s okay to tell your teens to stretch their boundaries a bit and have fun with something that’s not their idea. Some kids are game for that (my son would be, but my daughter complains about everything that isn’t her first choice). Honestly it’s how most of us grew up — my family did a cross country trip when I was a kid and I guarantee they did not ask my opinion about the itinerary (except the San Diego zoo, which was my requested stop). Would I have picked the Henry Ford museum or Linton’s birthplace? Maybe not but they were both awesome.

She’s probably being about 50% tongue in cheek.

Agree. And they will still have fun, I promise. Our kids have never actually been on a kids vacation, but they still ask when and where is the next trip.

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I'd add Richmond to the list if you can...ton of cool stuff to do in the immediate downtown area...

Tredegar Iron Works & Civil War Museum along the River, hit up Hollywood Cemetery - tons of interesting gravesites including Presidents Monroe and Tyler along with many Civil War figures. While not 100% AP History, the Poe Museum is fun to check out as well...

Sounds like a neat trip - I enjoyed that sort of stuff when I was a kid - I remember we stopped at things like Fort Necessity, Braddock's grave, Fort Ligonier, etc while traveling in Western PA. Neat stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:Good luck. My teens would not leave the car for an AP history tour.

That’s sad that you have no control over your children

DP. We have no idea how old OP’s (or the PP’s) teens are. They could be 17 for all we know, bigger and taller than their mom, and therefore physically impossible to “control.” But regardless of their size, good parents of teens have already started to let go of the idea of controlling their kids. Hopefully.

Which is not to say that OP shouldn’t do this trip or that all teens would be miserable on it, but if one’s kids were going to protest this kind of trip, there’s no amount of “controlling” that would make it fun for anyone involved.

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I’d add Jamestown and Yorktown to the Williamsburg leg of the trip. There are passes that let you get into all three venues. Jamestown has a great Native American settlement to visit, and you could do several days at Colonial Williamsburg all by itself. The trade ships are a ton of fun. I really loved the wigmaker myself. look at the evening programs at the taverns. Very fun for teens.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d add Jamestown and Yorktown to the Williamsburg leg of the trip. There are passes that let you get into all three venues. Jamestown has a great Native American settlement to visit, and you could do several days at Colonial Williamsburg all by itself. The trade shops are a ton of fun. I really loved the wigmaker myself. Also look at the evening programs at the taverns. Very fun for teens.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you know about Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts?

It’s Plimoth Patuxent.

Only to new woke fans...

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Anonymous wrote:Emily dickensen house? Eric Carl’s museum is great and maybe kids will relate to that even if it isn’t technically hostory

Love this aea of the country but it’s pretty out of the way and not worth driving out of the way for this.
If you’re going to be up by Seneca Falls, Cooperstown might be a fun add. Honestly we’ve never been to Seneca falls because it is so far from everything!

For the drive, I love The Rest is History podcasts. They are Brits so have a different take on American history but they are very funny (in a British historian way) and I think their podcasts are a lighter listen than some of the other history podcasts like History That Doesn’t Suck (which is basically like an AP history class — it’s very good but incredibly dense on detail so gets a little draining if you listen to all of them.).

Seneca Falls was the site of the 1848 women's rights convention so fits with OPs women's history theme too. I don't know if there is anything there to see though. I believe the "convention" was held in a church. But Seneca Falls is pretty far from Western MA.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you know about Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts?

It’s Plimoth Patuxent.

Only to new woke fans...

But helps to know that actual name if you are googling or trying to find the place.

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I'm like 80 percent sure this entire thing is a troll.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm like 80 percent sure this entire thing is a troll.

Like so many other posts ☹️

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Anonymous wrote:Do you know about Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts?

It’s Plimoth Patuxent.

DP. I also recommend this museum/site.

I went as a high schooler and I took my kids to it when they were young. I liked the Native American aspects of the site. The cafeteria made historical/cultural specialties.

https://plimoth.org/

In Boston, I recommend Paul Revere's House, the Hop-On/Hop-Off Bus with Duck Boat tour, and Walden Pond to see the replica Thoreau cabin.

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Should stop in on Mother Seton Shrine in Emmetsburg after Gettysburg, America’s first saint. This is 50th anniversary of her sainthood so a lot of special events ( even if not Catholic)

https://setonshrine.org/

Her order also played important role at battle of Gettysburg as nurses. You could then go to Frederick to visit the Civil War medical museum- learn all about Letterman. (Seton shrine also has neat museum detailing her life and the orders’ impressive work on those three days in July.)

https://www.civilwarmed.org/

This is also a cool idea: follow the trail of Benedict Arnold’s escape at West Point. Visit the chapel - where his portrait was removed all the Revolution general portraits remain. For Arnold a blank white space. Then cross the Hudson and tour the house where he gave up Washington and then boarded a ship on the Hudson for London. There is a cool trail - but warning the Amtrak tracks of NE corridor break some of the mystique.

Great idea Op!

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Ah I was mistaken. The house where Arnold betrayed the country was demolished in 1929.

But there is a tour of Arnold’s escape

https://www.putnamhistorymuseum.org/events/phm-history-hike-benedict-arnolds-flight/

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Anonymous wrote:I'd add Richmond to the list if you can...ton of cool stuff to do in the immediate downtown area...

Tredegar Iron Works & Civil War Museum along the River, hit up Hollywood Cemetery - tons of interesting gravesites including Presidents Monroe and Tyler along with many Civil War figures. While not 100% AP History, the Poe Museum is fun to check out as well...

Sounds like a neat trip - I enjoyed that sort of stuff when I was a kid - I remember we stopped at things like Fort Necessity, Braddock's grave, Fort Ligonier, etc while traveling in Western PA. Neat stuff.

And don’t forget the White House of the Confederacy in Richmond.