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"HOME FRONT DAYS" AT
THE NATIONAL D-DAY MUSEUM
MEANS FAMILY FUN FOR NEW ORLEANS
July 23-24 features activities
and learning experiences for kids and parents.
NEW ORLEANS - June 27, 2005, On Saturday.,
July 23 and Sunday, July 24, The National D-Day Museum will
host "Home Front Days," a weekend of activities for
children of all ages, focusing on life on the home front in
New Orleans during World War II. Kids and their parents can
enjoy fun and educational hands-on activities in the Louisiana
Memorial Pavilion free with regular Museum admission.
Activities in the Pavilion begin at 10 a.m. and end
at 5 p.m. on both days. The Museum opens at 9 a.m.
"Home Front Days" activities include planting Victory
Gardens, spotting planes, designing propaganda posters, building
Higgins boats, shopping with ration coupons, surviving mini
boot camp and learning to swing dance. Two special daytime programs,
a slide show and lecture by local author Mary Lou Widmer, will
focus on New Orleans and Louisiana’s home front experiences
at 2:00 Saturday, July 23 and a swing concert by the Bayou Community
band at 2:00 PM on Sunday, July 24.
"Home Front Days" is going to be an exciting experience
for children of all ages, said Museum Chairman David Voelker.
- The National D-Day Museum strives to be a cross-generational
Museum, bringing children together with their parents and grandparents
to learn about life during World War II.
"Home Front Days" features 10 stations, each host
to an activity relating to the World War II home front. After
completing each station, participants receive a stamp in the
official "Home Front Days" stamp book. Participants
who complete all 10 stations receive a special Museum prize.
The activities described below will be located at designated
areas around the Louisiana Memorial Pavilion in The National
D-Day Museum.
Rationing. Shop for a family meal with ration
stamps and learn how families developed substitutions, making
due with limited resources;
Recycling Toss. Learn the importance of recycling
to the war effort with this informative game;
Victory Garden. Plant a seed and watch it grow
in your own Victory Garden;
Plane Spotting. See if you can spot and identify
Allied and enemy aircraft hidden in the Pavilion;
Propaganda Posters. Color your own propaganda
posters and then dress as these famous people for a photograph
you get to take home;
Higgins Boats. Build your own Higgins Boat
and add it to The National D-Day Museum's fleet;
Boot Camp. See if you can handle being drafted
into the military and survive boot camp complete with pushups,
sit-ups, jumping jacks and marching ordered by your own D-Day
Museum Drill Sergeant;
Swing Dancing. Learn swing dances of the 40s
with members of the Dance New Orleans group;
Hats off to the Home Front. View the many hats
and helmets of the Home Front, can you guess which is which;
Who's on First? Watch the famous video of Abbott
and Costello's "Who's on First" than act it out.
Other "Home Front Days" features
include special showings of wartime cartoons and 1940s USO style
performances.
For more information about "Home Front Days," call
The National D-Day Museum at (504) 527-6012, extension 229.
The National D-Day Museum is open seven days a week from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. The Museum is closed on New Year's Eve and Day, Mardi
Gras and Christmas. Admission prices are $14 for adults; $8
for seniors ages 65 and up and students; and $6 for children
ages 5 to 17. Museum members are admitted
free.
The National D-Day Museum is a museum of the World War II years celebrating the American Spirit, the teamwork, optimism, courage and sacrifice of the men and women who won World War II and promotes the exploration and expression of these values by future generations.
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