Go to Oak Ridge to the Science Museum, mainly to see the display on the secret city. Since we have been to Los Alamos, NM, this seems like an interesting topic. But even more interesting is the display and movie on women in the service in WWII. We realize the movie is showing when there is about 10 minutes left in the film. It is scheduled to run again at noon. We come back at noon. No, there is a school group that is late for the demonstration run at 11 so a short film will be run and then they get their demonstration and then we will show the film at 1. It is 1:15 before we see the film.
We go through the secret city display. Four small towns were evacuated to create Oak Ridge. Skidmore, Owens and Merrill planned buildings for 15,000, but actually were almost 70,000 people there in a short period. Blacks were given the lowest housing—hutments. A hutment was 16 x 16, had a window on each wall, no screen, no glass, 4 beds and 4 foot lockers. That’s it. Other housing depended on your importance, not on what you were willing to pay.
We stop in Corbin, KY to shop and it isn’t until we are settled in at our campsite at Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park that I find out that Corbin is the home of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and that we went right by the first restaurant without even knowing it. Darn.
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