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SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

POLITICAL SCIENCE TRIP TO WASHINGTON DC
SPRING BREAK MARCH 2007
PENN STATE ERIE, THE BEHREND COLLEGE

Friday, March 16, 2007

The spiral staircase at the US Supreme Court

After a week of sunny, pleasant weather, the group endured a day of pouring rain on Friday and tried to keep to indoor locations as much as possible. Morning visits included Ford's Theatre, the house where Lincoln died (where students learned that Lincoln died in a diagonal position), the National Building Museum, and the National Postal Museum. After lunch at Union Station, we were escorted for a tour of the US Capitol with a Penn State Erie alumnus who now works for the Capitol Police. Later that afternoon, the group visited the Library of Congress and went to a lecture inside the US Supreme Court chambers.

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The box in Ford's Theatre where Lincoln was sitting on the night of his assassination

Students observe Ford's Theatre

Abraham Lincoln was taller than Sabina Medilovic

The National Building Museum

See students between the pillars inside the US Capitol

Everyone looks up in the US Capitol

Here is what they were looking at

A view of The Mall in the rain

Brittany Mays enjoyed the visit to the Library of Congress

The group walks up the steps to the Supreme Court in the rain

Paul Witt and Kevin Belknap relax at the Supreme Court after a long week