Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

State capital museum

Arizona out grew its capital building after the territory became a state, so when the legislators and governor moved out, part of the building was turned into a museum with all sorts of state trivia.

Winged Victory, a seventeen foot weather vane sits atop the building.
The room where the state congress used to meet looks sort of like a school room.
The Arizona state seal--incorrectly designed--is at the center of the building.
This was an interesting display.
There was a law that to enter town, a man must be wearing pants.  Some of the native tribes didn't have the custom of wearing them.  So there was a pair of jeans which hung on a tree outside the town.  A man could wear the jeans into town and put them back on the tree branch when he went home again.
Wow.