I had planned on taking the children to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point today for Field Trip Friday, but they wanted to play with friends and be home, so we opted for a shorter FTF. We headed over to the BYU MOA to see what was showing. They had a great exhibit of Western art that we all enjoyed--lots of cowboys and Indians and beautiful landscapes. The exhibit actually focused on the "branding" of the American West, and as part of the show they had two silent movies playing on a loop. Neither was very long. We came in part-way through one that somehow had Native Americans linked to a baseball game. I'm not exactly sure how the two parts of the movie were linked, but it was interesting. It seemed as though an Indian was killed at the end because of the outcome of the game, but we probably missed a critical component. The other movie was The Great Train Robbery, a very early silent film that the kids loved. Several people die very dramatically, there was a horse chase scene, and the bag guys get theirs in the end. Great stuff!
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