Regardless of your status (with regard to schoolage children), spring break provides a welcome pause. Treating yourself to an afternoon drive or a week-long getaway is fun. We live in a beautiful state. Most of you also reside in an area of Texas rich in history. Consider some of the following to enjoy as the spring season gets underway.
• A day trip to the National WASP Museum, 210 Avenger Field Rd., Sweetwater
The museum is open 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday with free admission.
Between November 1942 and December 1944, 1,074 more women were trained to fly first in Houston and then moved to Avenger Field in Sweetwater, TX. Nancy Love and Jacqueline Cochran founded the two programs (Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron and Women’s Flying Training Detachment) that became the WASP. – www.waspmuseum. org
• A day trip to the Silent WingsMuseum,6202 N. I-27, Lubbock
The museum is open 10 a.m.–5p.m.Tuesday–Saturday, 1–5 p.m. Sunday.
Free admission for active- duty military, $10 for adults, $5 for children 7-17 Travel back into the era of swing music, rations, and nationalism. Liberate Europe. Experience the heartbreak of Market Garden. Feel the triumph of V-E Day. View the planes flown, the weapons fired, and the missions carried out as you are guided through World War II by the glider pilots who served. – https://ci.lubbock. tx.us/departments/silentwings- museum
• A whole week of Texas Tech baseball March 10-19 at Dan Law Field, Rip Griffin Park, Lubbock
Tickets range from $6 to $30.
Texas Tech Softball Invitational Tournament March 10-12 at Rocky Johnson Field, 1002 Cancer Center Drive, Lubbock $8 adults, $5 children (Texas Tech online ticket prices)
• Wild Lark Books, 513 Broadway St., Lubbock, (806) 503-5330
Downtown Lubbock’s IndependentBookshopand Publisher – wildlarkbooks. com This unique bookstore has something for all ages. It provides a mission to facilitate publishing for local writers, an area to sit and read, helpful staff, and a cozy environment in which to browse. Check website for store hours as special events sometimes alter the schedule. It’s a favorite spot for some of my family members.
If you’d rather just stay home, sleep in, throw the kids outside to play in the dirt—then no judgment from me. March Madness NCAA basketball might keep you occupied. Who knows, maybe you can give your kids a crash course in booking bets on the games and earn some money for a two-week vacation this summer. Then if anyone asks what you did over spring break, you just tell them you made your children do “math enrichment.”
Snyder, Texas, native Sue Jane Sullivan is a retired schoolteacher whose thought-provoking commentary appears occasionally in several West Texas newspapers, including The Texas Spur and The Caprock Courier.
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