Clinton and Oak Ridge TN

I am writing this while completely sated from a lovely meal at a restaurant named Rouxbarb.  Judi and I split Foie Gras that melted in your mouth.  My main course was duck and dumplings.  The duck was succulent and tender, just perfect.

Judi took me to an old school named Green Macadoo which was an all black school in the Jim Crow days. When the town of Clinton, TN was sued at first the black students were being bussed for hours to another county to go to a black high school. This was the separate but equal.  Then the supreme court struck down the separate but equal.  12 students were admitted to the Clinton High School and all was going well until a Northern rabble rouser showed up to stir up hatred.  Eventually the National Guard was called in and the rabble rouser was sent to jail.  It was a wonderful little museum.

In the afternoon we went to the Oak Ridge Children's Museum.  It gave the history of Oak  Ridge during the years of World War II when they were developing the Atomic Bomb here.  It was a fascinating exhibit.  It showed how people lived, how there were gates to get into most of the town.  How there were different forms of housing, the levels of security that people lived under and other harsh conditions.  The museum held other exhibits of the pioneers, the native americans and the animals of North America.  It is a lovely museum with lots to see.

Who knows what tomorrow holds.