Spring Fling 2026 - Day 6: Churchill Museum

We are now in Illinois after driving 320 mi from the Kansas City, Mo area.Along the way we took a slight detour to the small college town of Fulton, Illinois. British prime minister Winston Churchill made a famous speech here on March 5, 1946, a speech where the phrase: "An Iron Curtain has descended across the continent" effectively marked the startup the Cold War.Westminster College had invited Churchill to speak there, and when President Truman endorsed the idea, the former prime minister accepted. Truman would accompany Churchill to the event.The church at Westminster College is the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, a 17th-century London church designed by Sir Christopher Wren. It was dismantled stone-by-stone, shipped across the Atlantic, and reassembled in Fulton, Missouri, to serve as a memorial to Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech.The museum is located below the church: Martha and I toured the exhibits which were laid out chronologically ending with the…