Entry 8

I have been living in Lee County for about 5 years and the field trip to the downtown area and the local history museum allowed me to learn about the history of this area that I was completely unaware of. I enjoyed walking through the downtown area more so than I did walking through the museum. The reason why I enjoyed walking through the downtown area more is because I got to see various places that I would like to visit that I did not know were there in the first place such as the restaurant located at the Indigo hotel. Also, being out in the open gave us a broader range of sites to look at. When at the museum I really liked the two displays that were in the outside. The first display, a replica of a typical cracker house, allowed me to connect it to A Land Remembered. The second display, a replica of a train allowed me to see how people traveled back in the day. Although, the inside of the train made me a feel a bit cluster phobic, it was interesting to see many of the things inside of it, such as the toilet and sink that were built together as one apparatus. I do not know how I would redesign the urban area to encourage more community engagement but I believe one thing that can be implemented is creating programs that would teach the residences about sustainability and allows them to come up with their own ideas of projects that can be done to improve their community.

google images/downtown ft myers

google images/ft myers history museum