Urban Ft Myers and Southwest Florida Historical Museum

On this field trip we ended up going to downtown Ft Myers and the Southwest Florida Historical Museum. First we toured downtown and walked along the streets and check out some various sites, including this area that had different types of palmettos growing and planted in separate spots. It was interesting to see that there were that many different types of palmettos, especially in areas that I didn't even know could grow palmettos. We also saw some statues too that were in honor of civil war soldiers too.
(Photo Courtesy of Robert Wozniak)

We walked further downtown in Ft Myers and saw this amazing mural that was painted.
It shows soldiers and native americans standing, with shots of various things throughout that era occuring right behind them. That was interesting to see and I wondered what motivated the artist to come up with that image. In a way it makes me wonder if I too could be capable of such work in any capacity. After viewing the mural we made our way to a museum. The museum had a lot of cool interesting artifacts such as various skeletons from previous animals that use to live in the area.
(Photo courtesy of Robert Wozniak)

The picture above shows the jaw of a baby megalodon which was actually an ancestor and precursor to current sharks today. I thought it was too huge to be a baby, but the lady that was giving us the tour concurred that it was indeed an infant. I would sure hate to meet the parent!
While going on the tour we also saw other skeletons of animals, such as a huge sloth like creature that was rather intimidating. We then walked around this Egypt exhibit that had these things set up to resemble artifacts you would find in Egypt. My favorite part however was getting a chance to see the Crackhouse. The Crackhouse was this little shack set up that resembled an outhouse basically. It was rather small and didn't look like it could comfortably house one person, let alone an entire family.
In terms of redesigning Ft Myers and getting more people involved, I wouldn't necessarily change the sections of the area, or reconstruct anything like that. I actually like the way downtown ft myers is set up, because it's easy to walk around. The only thing I would do differently to make it so that more people got involved is to throw more events in downtown, especially those activities that get kids involved. Every Halloween I would set up stations for free candy and kids could stop by and get free candy. I think this would introduce them to the area if they hadn't already been and then after a little touring they might just stop by again .