If you find yourself in Bisbee, you should pay a visit to this museum! "But the whole town is a museum", you say. "Yes, but you have to pay $7 per person for this museum so you know it's good." The Smithsonian collaborated with the local hippies/hobos to put it all together and it's really a "must see" of Bisbee's illustrious history.
If your kid has never been to a mining museum, then his/her face will be FREAKED OUT when he sees the many mannequins around wearing scary old timey clothes--some mining in plastic dioramas made to look the hot dark bowels of the earth. Let's just say it was a little unnerving for both young and old.
Remember when this one looks just like Parker Posey? Stool Boom!
To keep Calvin from bolting from the displays, I did my best in 3-year-old-ese that these mannequins aren't people, just big doll toys and look! They're funny, aren't they!? It's fun to see big doll people!
After we left the museum we were walking down the street and I noticed Calvin hanging back ever so slightly. He was staring at an old man who was standing still reading the menu in a restaurant window. Standing a little too still. Before I could say anything, Calvin stepped gingerly behind the man and gently shimmied his fingers into that slight fold where buttock and upper thigh meet. He took hold gently, like a handle, so not a "grab" or a "pinch" but more of a "handshake". Hilarity ensued.
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