We left Colorado Springs on the 30th to start home. The first day we got to Abilene KS, Ike's boyhood home. We did not get to see his library; got in too late. The next day we got to Nashville, IL, about 40 miles beyond St. Louis. On the way we stopped in Fulton MO to visit the Churchill Museum at Westminster College where he gave his famous Iron Curtain speech in 1946. The museum is very well done and is in the basement of the Christopher Wren church that was destroyed in the London blitz. The church was dismantled, moved, and rebuilt in the early 1950s at Westminster College to commemorate the speech. Then we drove to Lexington Ky, stopping along the way at Lincoln's boyhood home (age 7-21) in Indiana. All that's left of the farmhouse is the outline of the cabin's foundation that Lincoln lived in. We stayed a day in Lexington and saw the Kentucky Horse Farm (surprise, all about horses, and that picture is a statue of Man O War). We also took a tour of the bluegrass country which included a stop at Keeneland, a large horse farm that also has the Keeneland Race Course, where we watched horses at their morning workout (see picture).
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