华盛顿总统纪念碑是首都的最高地标,仿古埃及方尖碑(obelisk),高169米,曾因内战期间缺乏经费而停建,后来再建时已经找不到完全一样颜色的大理石,所以可以看到纪念碑是上下两个颜色的。华盛顿是唯一一位没有入驻白宫在华盛顿特区任总统的,美国第一个首都是纽约,第二个是费城,最终定在DC特区建都。
从纽约去华盛顿路过古朴而典雅的普林斯顿大学。想起前几年婆婆神秘地拿给我们一个小包裹,里面是她保存了多年前我先生被普林斯顿,康奈尔,麻省理工等院校录取的通知书,每个父母都是这么为孩子自豪啊。他还是选择去了离家近的加州理工(Caltech)。他的导师后来获得了诺贝尔奖,能从师于这样专注钻研的科学家真是荣幸。也为今天的莘莘学子加油!
普林斯顿大学街角这座建筑很有德国风格,窗前的鲜花,外墙的木头都富有情调
费城独立宫Independence Hall,1776年7月4日独立宣言在此签署,1787年宪法也在此制定。
只在费城停留了半小时, 可惜没有看到自由钟????,给下次旅游留下一个理由~~
巴尔的摩的海盗船
巴尔的摩海港附近有一家Bubba Gump shirmp company餐厅,莫非是电影Forrest Gump里阿甘和他的战友实现了诺言,走出屏幕合作的?
林肯总统纪念堂外观采用雅典建筑风格,36个圆柱代表当时联邦的36个州,后来又增加了12个州写在圆柱上方,而最后加入的阿拉斯加和夏威夷则刻在地上了。
林肯纪念堂内墙上刻着著名的盖茨堡演说(Gettysburg Address):
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
天有些阴,借玫瑰为国会山增添几分色彩
小盲女和聋女海伦 ·凯勒会说的第一个字是水
印第安酋长
Father Junípero Serra在加州建立了二十多个教区mission,现在很多城市也因教区而得名,比如San Francisco, San Refael, Santa Barbara, San Diego... 1988年Father Junípero Serra被教宗John Paul II封为真福。现在加州280高速路边上还可以看到他的塑像。他在出生地西班牙和美国都受到尊重,并发布邮票以作纪念。
里根总统
宇航员
国会山庄大厅的浮雕讲述美国历史大事
国会山庄穹顶
春天樱花开放的时候这里一定很美
波多马克河远眺
韩战纪念碑
越战纪念碑的一部分,三名战士由第二名设计,第一名设计者林璎的作品是下面的纪念碑墙,简单而震撼,战士名字不按姓氏笔画排列。林璎也是著名设计师林徽因的侄女。
夕阳下越战纪念碑,愿太阳光给你们一些温暖。。。
戒备森严的白宫
坐船游览波多马克河
华盛顿特区的博物馆很多,Smithsonian旗下就有十九座博物馆,而且都是免费开放,smithsonian城堡背后是植物园。在博物馆街每个场馆遥遥相望,实在没有时间仔细参观,希望不久的将来带孩子们来访。
航空航天馆
印第安博物馆,给雪儿拍几张印第安娃娃的衣服
国家艺术馆,小姐妹
母亲和孩子们
下面这段影像讲述了国会山庄建造历史,也反映了美国历史