Mr. Venture Goes To Washington,
Hello again loyal
readers, the Venture Home News is coming to you this week from Washington,
D.C., where we would be enjoying a short vacation, but there is a massive power
outage in this whole area of the country. The main-stream media is blaming some
storm, but this reporter has the scoop. Pop had us stop off at the Pentagon so
that he could demonstrate a new invention of his (that he came up with after he
was poking around in some old boxes in the attic the other day) to influence
the weather. He took a small model of a similar device that Grandpa Jonas had
made, enlarged it and hooked it into the X-1 for power. After the demonstration
went well, he convinced them to let him hook it into the power grid to show
them what it could really do and well…things got a little out of hand.
But I’m not going to let it spoil my day, I’m very excited to be exploring our nation’s Capitol and hopefully bringing the sort of hard-hitting, no-nonsense journalism you’ve come to expect from the Home News to the inner workings of our government. This is me, outside the United States Capitol building. Pop came to town to testify before congress, I overhead that it had something to do with mine and Hank’s Christmas presents and Pop was telling Dr. Orpheus that Ralph Hall wouldn’t need his mumbo jumbo anymore once he convinced Congress that cloning should be a part of the health plan for congressmen. Brock promised to take Hank and me to see the Fourth of July fireworks, but he’s upset that there won’t be a zeppelin at the concert. I told him that I thought I saw a blimp the other day, and that the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum has a model of the Hindenburg, but it didn’t seem to cheer him up.
We went on a keen tour of the Capitol. We got to see the center of Washington, the beautiful paintings on the Rotunda and the statues of historical figures sent by the states. Each state gets two, some choose politicians, Presidents, or humanitarians and some even choose inventors. I saw Philo Farnsworth (inventor of the television) and Dr. John Gorrie (inventor of the air conditioner), it was scientastic!
I asked the tour guide why there wasn’t a statue of Grandpa Jonas, but he said that multiple states had discussed sending a statue of him, and since they didn’t want to have overlap when there were so many other people deserving of recognition they said that only one state could send a statue of him. And since none of them could agree which would be the one to do it, he never got a statue in the Capitol. But that his legacy was represented in several places in the Smithsonian. It made me proud that Grandpa is so well respected; I wonder if there will ever be a statue of Pop in the Capitol? He’s a pretty important guy after all.
Well, that’s all for today. I’ll keep you all posted on our trip.
Until next time, this is Deany V., taking the pulse of our Nation’s Capitol.
But I’m not going to let it spoil my day, I’m very excited to be exploring our nation’s Capitol and hopefully bringing the sort of hard-hitting, no-nonsense journalism you’ve come to expect from the Home News to the inner workings of our government. This is me, outside the United States Capitol building. Pop came to town to testify before congress, I overhead that it had something to do with mine and Hank’s Christmas presents and Pop was telling Dr. Orpheus that Ralph Hall wouldn’t need his mumbo jumbo anymore once he convinced Congress that cloning should be a part of the health plan for congressmen. Brock promised to take Hank and me to see the Fourth of July fireworks, but he’s upset that there won’t be a zeppelin at the concert. I told him that I thought I saw a blimp the other day, and that the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum has a model of the Hindenburg, but it didn’t seem to cheer him up.
We went on a keen tour of the Capitol. We got to see the center of Washington, the beautiful paintings on the Rotunda and the statues of historical figures sent by the states. Each state gets two, some choose politicians, Presidents, or humanitarians and some even choose inventors. I saw Philo Farnsworth (inventor of the television) and Dr. John Gorrie (inventor of the air conditioner), it was scientastic!
I asked the tour guide why there wasn’t a statue of Grandpa Jonas, but he said that multiple states had discussed sending a statue of him, and since they didn’t want to have overlap when there were so many other people deserving of recognition they said that only one state could send a statue of him. And since none of them could agree which would be the one to do it, he never got a statue in the Capitol. But that his legacy was represented in several places in the Smithsonian. It made me proud that Grandpa is so well respected; I wonder if there will ever be a statue of Pop in the Capitol? He’s a pretty important guy after all.
Well, that’s all for today. I’ll keep you all posted on our trip.
Until next time, this is Deany V., taking the pulse of our Nation’s Capitol.
GO TEAM VENTURE!
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