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Summer Splash, as the new exhibit is called, is the first show the Children's Museum has moved outdoors to the piers that separate Museum Wharf from the Boston Harbor. And, it has been so successful in attracting both tourists and locals that Museum Publicity Director Gail Eaton says it may one day become a permanent part of the museum's exhibits...
...third exhibit uses clear hoses and wooden parts to demonstrate the mechanism of a well that Eaton says was fashioned in Africa. "This is how they use gravity to get water in certain parts of Africa," she says. "They move the wheel against gravity and pump the water up to a certain height, and then it falls. See? The children wouldn't be able to see that if the hoses were opaque or green or something. The clear ones demonstrate a natural fact...
...Eaton says that the Museum's staff employs several members who are acquainted not only with science but, more importantly, with how to teach children about nature without making it seem as if they are being educated...
...student in the early years christened the building Eaton House, after the second president of Harvard. Eaton forced the closing of Harvard for a year when he ran off to Jamaica with the entire college endowment after it was discovered that the meat he served to students was maggot-ridden...
...house has, "Center for High-Energy Metaphysics," painted where "Eaton House" used to be. Nobody knows why this is there or what it means...