{"id":10169,"date":"2020-10-01T06:19:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T13:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=10169"},"modified":"2020-10-01T11:36:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T18:36:01","slug":"patton-museum-reopens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/10\/01\/patton-museum-reopens\/","title":{"rendered":"Patton Museum Reopens!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We recently blogged about the General Patton Memorial Museum at Chiriaco Summit<\/a>, California, and in that blog, we mentioned the museum was closed due to the Covid 19 pandemic.\u00a0 Well, that’s changed…I had a nice conversation a couple of days ago with Margit Chiriaco Rusche (Co-Founder and President of the Museum) and she told me the Patton Museum is now open.\u00a0 I’m going to plan a ride out there as soon as the heat breaks (watch the ExNotes blog for more details), and if you’d like to go, let us know.<\/p>\n

Margit asked me to mention the Patton Museum’s USO Room and theatre, the lecture series, and the library.\u00a0 These are important parts of the Museum and we’re happy to do so.<\/p>\n

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The Patton Museum’s theatre and USO room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Patton Museum has hosted two years of lecture series and Margit tells me they were well attended.\u00a0 Prior presenters have included the Superintendent of Joshua Tree National Park and a key speaker from the Metropolitan Water Department (refer to our earlier blog for the story about the Patton Museum’s Big Map, donated by the MWD), as well as several others.\u00a0 \u00a0The lecture series was suspended during the pandemic, but it will resume in 2021.\u00a0 My good buddy Phil may be one of the speakers next year on his research and his new book, Letters from Uncle Dave<\/a>\"\".\u00a0 We’ll have an upcoming blog on Phil’s new book in the near future, too, so as always, keep an eye on the ExNotes blog.<\/p>\n

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Another shot inside the USO Room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The USO Room presents the story of the United Service Organizations, a group focused on keeping military morale high.\u00a0 This exhibit features exhibits on Al Jolson and Bob Hope, two major forces in the USO’s entertainment world.\u00a0 The USO Room has the original juke box used at Camp Young’s entertainment center (Camp Young was the headquarters camp for the Desert Training Center, and it was located at Chiriaco Summit).<\/p>\n

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One of many exhibits at the Patton Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Patton Museum library contains a large book collection, along with notebooks chronicling the lives and activities of World War II veterans (the Museum currently has over a hundred of these, and more are being added).\u00a0 It includes tactical maps used by Patton during World War II, and a collection of rare books.\u00a0 The library is also a source of genealogy information.<\/p>\n

If you would like to learn more about the General Patton Memorial Museum, Chiriaco Summit, and the Chiriaco family, in addition to our earlier blog on the Patton Museum you might want to pick up a copy of Chiriaco Summit<\/a>\"\", a book that tells the story well.\u00a0You should buy a copy.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great read.<\/p>\n

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We recently blogged about the General Patton Memorial Museum at Chiriaco Summit, California, and in that blog, we mentioned the museum was closed due to the Covid 19 pandemic.\u00a0 Well, that’s changed…I had a nice conversation a couple of days ago with Margit Chiriaco Rusche (Co-Founder and President of the Museum) and she told me … Continue reading “Patton Museum Reopens!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[392,96],"tags":[1462,1463,1432,1465,1459,1460,1464,1461,1466],"class_list":["post-10169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-back-in-the-day","category-feel-good-stuff","tag-al-jolson","tag-bob-hope","tag-chiriaco-summit","tag-letters-from-uncle-dave","tag-patton","tag-patton-museum","tag-phil-rosenkrantz","tag-uso","tag-world-war-ii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200826_0116-900.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10169"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10217,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169\/revisions\/10217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}