2 days ago
Every last word: One woman's quest for the full Smithsonian experience
Underneath the towering 11-ton African Bush Elephant immortalized in the rotunda of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Kathryn Jones unfurled her map. Unlike the tourists in bucket hats and campers in matching T-shirts around her, she knew where she was going.
Sections of the crinkled paper were X-ed off with black marker, noting the exhibits she had strolled through. Today, she would be tackling one unmarked section: the Fossil Hall. The 31,000-square-foot exhibit is a tour of the natural world from present day backward to deep time.
