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The
DiMenna Children’s History Museum at the New-York
Historical Society hostedits third annual Family
Benefit Party ― Ticket
toHistory! Parents
and their children (ages 4 - 14) explored
transportation innovations by:
o flying
through NYC’s skyscrapers on a Flight Simulator;
o designing
and building 3-D fantasy vehicles—combine aspects of
planes, trains, cars, blimps, boats, etc.;
o constructing
and racing sail boats;
o building
a map the Transcontinental Railroad;
o re-enacting
the life of a colonial-era sailor;
o interviewing conductors,
engineers, and railroad workers;
o hearing
Nellie Bly’s stories of her round-the-world travel;
o decorating
an historic vehicle used in NY over the past 400
years;
o taking
home a memory of the day with a Green Screen
historical family portrait.
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