We went to Mainz with our friends to visit the Gutenberg museum. There is a lot to look at there, including two of the first Gutenberg Bibles. There are many displays with descriptions that are in both English and German. They show a video about Gutenberg and the development of the printing press in English at certain times. We also watched a demo of the printing press, although it was all in German.
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| The individual letter molds |
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After the demo
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| Gutenberg statue |
Hannah, my true bibliophile seemed to really enjoy this day trip. She kept wishing her friends from Maryland could see this or that which was sweet. She took a few pictures to send to them. She doesn't enjoy many of our trips lately so it was good to see her happy about one.
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| St. Boniface statue |
We have read about him and learned about his major invention and how it revolutionized society and this was a great field trip to actually see a printing press.
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| Luckily, these boys had each other because they really didn't care one bit about the printing press. |
Of course, there is always this wherever we go, but usually not quite so much. They both argued with us that it is about what they'd normally drink at a meal with all the sharing and size of the mugs taken into account.
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