Here is a question for anybody: When I was a kid, my father told me that Glen Echo amusement park in Montgomery County, Maryland was closed because the owners refused to desegregate. Does anybody know if there is any truth to this? Thanks!
I have been thinking about the final project for this class and, although I really love the amusement park idea, I will have to wait to attack that. The scope of the idea that I had was far too broad for this project. I do have an idea to work with, and , of course, it involves maps. It involves a map that I recently made. I am thinking about using this map as an inspiration for historic questions. That is as far as I have gotten, though. The historic questions will have to wait a little while. I think that I may end up supplementing this map with either another map, or another type of image.
If anybody out there knows anything about the western-themed amusement park, which was located on route 29, somewhere between the western border of Fairfax City and Bull Run, where route 29 crosses into Prince William County, I would love to hear about it! I am fascinated by those old theme parks. I grew up visiting the Enchanted Forest, near Baltmore, which was immortalized in the John waters movie, Cry-Baby. I was very sad when it closed down. The end of the Enchanted Forest was particularly late compared to most of the other small local amusement parks of that sort. I can certainly symapthize with all of the little boys and girls who lost their amusement parks, back when my parents were kids.
