HIgh Ho...Herbert Hoover's Presidential Museum

August 7, 2017

WE love A-MAR-E-CA!!! 
Thanks to Susan Forward, Phil Brummel and Lori and Don Williams, they convinced us to stop in West Branch, Iowa right off I-80 W. On the way we had to skip the historic Amana Colonies which also sounded interesting http://www.amanacolonies.com/. Unfortunately, we missed the World's Largest Truck Stop on I-80 as well...not enough hours in a day!

Mostly, it was a gorgeous day for traveling with big puffy clouds, bountiful corn and soy fields and picturesque farms on hills and plains. Basically, landscapes that looked like Edward Hopper paintings. Those landscapes became surreal with miles of massive wind turbines as we got closer to Sioux City, IA.

                                  Downtown West Branch after Herbert Hoover Days

Trying to get a close up of the massive wind turbines

Mike and I became so enamored with Herbert Hoover's Presidential Library that we took a ridiculous amount of photos telling his story and his wife's. We had no idea how much they did for not only the US but the world at large. Humanitarians were just the beginning of their accomplishments... Mike knew some of his story but honestly, I was clueless...



            Feel free to enjoy them or not...a few photos we took with special people in mind...
 I took photos about Lou, Herbert Hoover's wife. Like Eleanor Roosevelt, she was a really       incredible woman particularly for the times she lived in...

A blacksmith shop like Bert's dad's Jesse's place located on the site

                                     The one room school house in this Quaker community

                                            Anyone beside me used one of these gems before?

                        The two room house Herbert Hoover's dad and granddad built for his family

                        The view to West Branch with some of these charming homes from Bert's boyhood



                               His birthplace from the street with the kitchen out the back

Two rooms and a kitchen were togetherness

                                             One of the private Victorian's on his street

         The Quaker Meeting House, I can't imagine waiting around for hours for someone to speak

                    This room is a reproduction of one of their rooms at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC

Thought this quote by him was so well said

One of his first engineering jobs was in the wilds of Australia where he found gold

          I had no idea this existed let alone he sponsored it's passage

                                             About Lou, Herbert's wife


           Among First Lady's many accomplishments she was an architect who designed their house


                                        Their house on a hill overlooking Stanford University

Lou, the tomboy became a leader of the Girl Scouts and came up with the cookie sale to raise funds

Unlike today's politicians he refused to put on a dog and pony show with his family

Under Wilson and later President Harding he tried to warn them of a possible stock market crash prior to it happening but no believed him

                  Unfortunately, Black Tuesday fell during his term so received the blame

                                What he did manage to accomplish during his administration

During WWI his efforts to win the war even before he was in public office

                                                         Another one of his WWI efforts

                           An example of Belgian lace making using bobbins...Incredible!

I didn't realize famous illustrators made posters for WWI

         During and after both WWI and II, he helped provide food for the starving all across Europe

loved these artistic flour bags

Sorry that the order of these photographs are so crazy...