KIDS EXPECTED TO RIDE OUT TO REAGAN LIBRARY ROUNDUP.Byline: Christopher Noxon Daily News Staff Writer As many as 4,000 people are expected to take advantage of free admission Saturday for western-flavored family entertainment at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs . The second Rawhide Rawhide series depicting cowboys as cattle-punchers along the Santa Fe trail. [TV: Terrace, II, 235] See : Wild West Western Roundup of the summer will include music by a country band, a storytelling program, a horse show, a petting zoo, a barbecue lunch and appearances by cowboy-star impersonators. Administrators say big crowds turn out for such events at the Reagan Library and museum. ``It really attracts an extra-large crowd when we have weekends like this,'' said spokesperson Lynda Schuler. ``A lot of people think museums are boring, so we try to do what we can to combat that.'' The museum and grounds have been the scene of events such as an encampment and Civil War re-enactments Civil War re-enactment may refer to:
Organizers said the last roundup program appealed to families, and there again will be special activities for children. There will be an area where kids can don 10-gallon hats and chaps, then ``ride'' on saddles mounted on barrels. Storyteller Jim Woodward and horse-drawn wagon rides also will entertain children. The event was planned to coincide with a museum exhibit, ``Ronald Reagan's American West.'' The exhibit will run through Aug. 19 and includes a saddle, a canoe, riding clothes and work boots that the former president wore while chopping wood at the Reagan ranch in Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. . Administrators have waived the usual admission charge - $2 for senior citizens, $4 for other adults - for the entire library and museum. The permanent collection includes a recently-added replica of the White House Cabinet room, several interactive CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). displays and a ground-launch nuclear cruise missile cruise missile, low-flying, continuously powered offensive missile designed to evade defense systems. Although the German V-1 (1944) was a simple cruise missile, the cruise missile did not realize its potential until the 1970s, when the United States sought to removed from Belgium after the 1988 disarmament treaty. ``But that's not interactive,'' Schuller joked about the missile. |
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