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Published: June 20th 2008
Eisenhower Museum
The museum is right in the middle of Abilene, Kansas where Ike lived and went to schoolI was born in 1947, so the first American President that I can recall is Dwight Eisenhower. I know that the British were very fond of him, but didn’t realize that he had developed life-long friendships with Winston Churchill and Field Marshall Montgomery.
Eisenhower’s Museum is located in Abilene, Kansas; which is in the middle of nowhere; because he was raised here. He was actually born in Texas but spent his childhood and youth in Abilene, so I guess this was “home” for him. He was the third of six boys born to David and Ida Eisenhower. From what I understood the museum and library were built on the original property where the family home was is located. Ike’s boyhood home is part of the exhibit, and is a wonderful addition and very interesting.
Because their parents could not afford a college education for their boys Ike and his older brother schemed how they were going to get one. They decided that one brother would work for two years while the other brother went to school, then they would switch. Ike worked up to 80 hours a week in a local creamery to help pay for his brother’s education. He heard
Boyhood Home
This is where Ike lived during his infant and teenage years. The house was small when they moved into it so his parent's kept adding rooms to accommodate their growing family that if he could get a recommendation to a military academy he would be educated as well as getting military training. He wrote to the local Senator who recommended him for West Point. He entered the military academy in West Point in June, 1911 and served in various ranks in various military camps all over the U.S. The rest is history.
Ike and Mamie are both buried here; their gravesite is located in a building called “Place of Meditation
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