Kit's Railway Adventure is a Travel Scrapbook that is part of Kit's books.
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Scrapbook Summary[]
Ruthie has gifted Kit the scrapbook with a poem in the front to document her railway journey; Stirling has also given her a Professor Phibb's Fact Finder lens that will help her read a secret message on the trip that he says will "find her" and to write the letters down in order. (The clues are slipped to her by Aunt Millie.)
Kit has won a nationwide children's essay contest sponsored by the American Railway Association[3] on the best part of the New Deal. Kit's essay about the Civilian Conservation Corps was chosen out of thousands of essays for first prize: an all-expenses paid trip for two to anywhere in the country and a two-day visit to the 1934 World's Fair in Chicago. Kit has chosen to visit her brother Charlie who is working in Glacier National Park in Montana. She has chosen to take her Aunt Millie with her and feels proud that she can pay her back a little for her part in rescuing her house with her savings. Everyone comes to see them off--Kit's parents, Ruthie, Stirling, and Stirling's mother--and Stirling shows Kit the mural inside of the lobby of the Cincinnati Union Terminal station painted by Winold Reiss. Kit is startled by the loudness of the train whistle which blows at exactly 9:05 a.m., and waves as the train pulls off. She wants to bring back souvenirs for everyone--but since they'll have to be free, she's decided to make it like a treasure hunt.
Souvenirs Inside[]
Several items are reproductions of authentic items.
- Professor Phibb's Fact Finder: cardboard viewer with red plastic lens (in yellow labeled pocket)
- Paper of Kit's winning essay (in mail envelope pocket)
- Map of Chicago and cardboard bookmark/letter opener (in brochure pocket)
- Green cardstock train whistle (in orange whistle code pocket)
- Non-removable recreational map of Glacier National Park
- Red paper lantern (in clear pocket)
- Cardstock "beaded" rosette on yellow ribbon (in orange envelope pocket with ahksi-tak mapi (Thank you, friend) and sun symbol)
- Cardstock reproduction of FDR "World Famous Initials" Political Puzzle] in Roosevelt envelope with signature of FDR.
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Trivia[]
- Kit is pictured in her Birthday Dress and Headband on the cover. While this is fitting to her family's finances, this meant that--unlike Samantha and Molly, who were relatively more prosperous--she did not receive a new outfit or any accessories to accompany her travel scrapbook.
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References and Footnotes[]
- ↑ Kit's punched railway ticket.
- ↑ Kit listens to the FDR Radio Address at Two Medicine the day before she boards to return home.
- ↑ This became part of the Association of American Railroads in October 1934.