Rewind -- September 25, 2011 -- William Howard Taft National Historic Site

Back in September we visited the William Howard Taft National Historic Site in Mt. Auburn. I used to live very close to the site and kept meaning to check it out, but never did.

It's a beautifully maintained home run by the Park Service, strangely enough. While I'm not a fan of Taft's political party, I'm pretty sure he was a little more intelligent and less awful than the current batch.

The animatronic Charlie Taft is both creepy and intriguing. Since we were so close to the University of Cincinnati, it seemed to make sense to stop by and visit the Smiling Bill statue, which appeared on campus in the early 1990s while I was attending graduate school there. At that time he was placed right on the sidewalk path between the law school and the classics building. Luckily he's now been moved slightly off the path, but he's still smiling.