On the Quad

Hello again from Springfield, Massachusetts! This is the last entry in my blog for the Springfield Armory meetup in December 2021. The album continues with my visit to several interesting museums in town. Please come see me to view the pages of the Dr. Seuss Museum and even a Friendly's original restaurant display! 

After completing the visitor center displays, I walked outside and toured the different buildings remaining around the perimeter of the quad. The larger homes housed the Armory Commanders and their families. The longer buildings served as offices, laboratories, and even manufacturing centers. This was a major employer during WWII, with over 13,000 people participating in the effort — many of them women. Some of the buildings have been converted to use as the community college with classrooms, gymnasiums, and auditoriums. The rest are not open for touring at this time. After our tour, our group headed to lunch. Come back next time, and we'll look at more wintry weather as I head north to Harriet Tubman in New York.

This layout is also based on one of Noreen Smith's April sketches from Scrap Your Stash. Our goal for this challenge was to use mats from our kits. I chose a Bo Bunny set of papers called "Mamarazzi," which is about how family photographers take so many photos that they become part of the press! I liked the distressed tones of the paper. There were some cut-apart sheets that I used for the mats on the bottom left and bottom right. The other mats under the photos are just trimmed papers--though that certainly uses up the stash as well! Now that I remember I own this, you may be seeing it more on historic buildings!