Wilbur Wright’s Birthplace — Millville, Indiana

John — 12

One of the main things to see at Wilbur’s birthplace is the Wright house. The Wright house was built-in the 1860’s. The house was one of my favorite parts. There was an upstairs and downstairs. Their oven heated their whole house. Their restroom was outside (an outhouse), and at night you have to use chamber pots as your toilet. I personally think that it would start to smell bad at night. The bad part is if you were a kid you had to take the chamber pot out and clean it. The house is just one of the many things to look at there.

My other favorite part was the museum it had a miniature street in it. It is from 1900. It had the Wright’s bike shop, a barber shop, a general store, and it even had a small shopping center for clothes. My favorite thing about the museum was the miniature version of the Wright brother’s Kitty Hawk camp. It had all the stuff they would have brought with them from Indiana to North Carolina. They also had a replica of the Wright glider next to the camp. Finally, there is even a video you can watch in the museum.

Visiting the Wilbur Wright Birthplace only costs $2.oo to get in. They have a visitor’s center where you can buy collectibles, books, and they also sell small-scale replicas. This is an attraction worth going to see.

Barnett — 7

We went into the gift shop and paid to go take a tour. It was a long tour (1 hour and 30 minutes). First we got to see Wilbur Wright’s memorial. Then we saw his house. I liked seeing the toys he and his brothers played with – like a bow and arrow, rocking horse, and building blocks. I liked seeing the baby’s dress in the cradle. Then we went to the shed. I liked learning facts about corn and the corn shucker. The smoke house was next. The outhouse was fun, and we got to sit in it. You had to use newspaper and a corncob to wipe your bottom! Then we went to the museum. We saw an old fashioned town. There was a fun model of the plane that you could lay on and steer. The museum has a model of their camp at Kitty Hawk. Wilbur and Orville did not have very much food and had to write the dates on the eggs to know when they were laid. They slept up top in the barn and could not roll over or they would fall out of their beds to the floor below. Everyone should go see this because it is interesting. I learned a lot.