Rob,
seems i will be in Louisville and Bowling Green for a couple weeks and plan to head to Ft. Knox on a Saturday to see the Patton Museum. Any info you can give me on the museum i may need to know ahead of time would be great.
Geoff
The museum now has a separate entrance off of US 31W so you can park there without having to “officially” enter the base and go through the security check points.
The museum hours are posted on the website. Like most army installations, the site is www.knox.army.mil/ . You can see your way to a link to the museum from that site. Weekend hours are 10 AM to 4:30.
Lots more armor sprinkled around base like an M60A1 RISE/Passive w/ERA in front of the Marine Detachment, MBT70, XM803 out around the base but not readily accessible to civilians without DoD ID cards.
thanks rob, appreciate it. its about 150 miles or so north of bowling green?
I’m not sure, Take I-65 north until you hit Elizabethtown, KY. That’s where the Bluegrass Pkwy and Western KY Pkwy both meet. You can follow the signs for Ft. Knox from there.
okay, i appreciate it. thanks for the answers.
If you can find it, the storage area for the museum has a lot of armor outside and in several buildings. I’ve been to the area a few times and have taken more pictures than I care to remember. I don’t know the directions as my friend is usually driving. If you are driving and see a Sherman behind a fence you are heading in the right direction. I believe the storage are is on the way to a gunnery range. The workers at the sheds are very friendly and will take the time to answer questions. Also, it will be worth your time to visit Scale Reproductions in Louisville. It’s a well stocked shop. HTH
A question for Maj. Gronovius: Is the road construction finished in front of the base?
tankergeoff,
From Bowling Green, KY, take I 65 North as per Rob’s directions. The mileage to Elizabetown is around 70-75 miles depending upon what on-ramp you start from. The Corvette assembly plant exit is mile marker 29 and the exit number for the first 31W exit is between 88 and 91 (I obviously can’t remember exactly, though I should know by now). From the interstate exit I forget the rest of the mileage, its been a few years since I was at the museum. Good luck and enjoy.
Rob,
Have you been to the model shop in Elizabethtown and if so, is it worth stopping in?
thanks,
js
thanks for the help everyone.
Yes, I’ve been there. Not worth detouring for a long trip but worth a stop if you are in the immediate area.
thanks for the LHS info
It was nice of Rob Gronovius to step in and answer the question in Rob Gronovious’s absence.
Just kidding! [;)] The name is interesting – I’ll bet it’s Dutch or Swedish, as those folks often latinized their Germanic names in the seventeeth century. (Linnaeus, Grotius, etc.)
As opposed to prosaic old “Dunn.” Bottom of the barrel Irish.
It is Dutch, Latinized by a forefather from the name Gronow. Go to http://www.gronovius.com/familytree/index.html to see the lineage of my family history. Got several North American weeds named after an ancestor. My cousin set up that site and has become the family historian. The name’s been around since the 1600s.
Thanks for confirming that. A lot of the important scientific thinkers of the Renaissance and Enlightenment came from Northern Europe, and they looked back to the classical world as their model (as opposed to what they considered to be superstition of the Middle Ages), so they would often latinize their names to signify that connection.
People really underestimate the importance of Dutch settlement in America – there’s a terrific book called The Island at the Center of the World that argues that much of what’s great about America today comes from the Dutch settlement of Manhattan instead of the English colonists to their north and south. It’s a very fun read to boot.
Anyway, tanks, tanks …
Actually, that relative received samples from another botanist who was in America and then proceded to write a botany book in Latin (effectively “stealing” the other man’s thunder).
My branch of the family is from Indonesia but left in the 1950s due to ethnic cleansing (pure Indonesians were killing those of Dutch decent).