This paperback book is an unusual guide book designed to provide an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the past as it relates to life today. This new book contains excursions to both well-known sites, from prehistory to recent history. It will guide you to prehistoric artifacts that you are allowed to touch or to a colonial kitchen where you can help with the work. It tells how to find out what Benjamin Franklin"s contemporaries really thought of him or where to visit one of the houses of a man who saw the Civil War start in his front yard and end in his front parlor. It can take you to an authentic whiskey still or aboard a famous World War II submarine. With it you can give your children any number of days of fun and education, or your students active involvement in history, or you can give yourself the chance to take your own One day trips through history.