Dan and I vacationed in Little Rock, Arkansas. The day we were meeting my sister Deb, we took a nice walk along Riverfront Park. This women came up to my husband and asked him if the Nina and Pinta landed had landed. I did not know if this lady lost her memory or was having a vivid imaginary moment. Later that morning the Nina and Pinta landed at Riverfront Park. The replica ships are part of a sailing museum and were set to land in Little Rock before their next departure. The Nina was built completely by hand and without the use of power tools. Archaeology magazine called the ship "the most historically correct Columbus replica ever built". The Pinta was recently built in Brazil to accompany the Nina on all her travels. She is actually a larger version of the archetypal caravel. Historians consider the caravel the Space Shuttle of the fifteenth century. This is a fantastic sailing museum that will continue to educate public and private school children. Now I realize the lady that ran up to Dan had a brain that was working just fine.
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