| | ::::Here we go: ''Hamm says the site chosen for the new facility is in Florence, Kentucky, a choice not immediately obvious to most. "A lot of people say to us, 'Why would you build a creation museum like that? I mean, this is a world center, and people are going to come from all over the world here. Why would you pick northern Kentucky?'" he says. But AIG's president points out that nearly two-thirds of the U.S. population is within a day's travel of the museum's location. "Actually, northern Kentucky is part of the Greater Cincinnati area," he says, "and the museum property where the facility is being constructed is just two exits west of Cincinnati's international airport. We have a great international airport here. In fact it's a Delta hub."''<ref>Agape Press - Creation Museum Will Show Gospel's Scientific Truth, By Mary Rettig, October 21, 2004[http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/212004f.asp]</ref> I'll let someone else figure out how/if to work this into the article. (And whether 650 miles (BTW not mentioned in this source) is "within a day's travel".)--[[User:Hsmom|Hsmom]] 19:30, 31 May 2007 (EDT) | | ::::Here we go: ''Hamm says the site chosen for the new facility is in Florence, Kentucky, a choice not immediately obvious to most. "A lot of people say to us, 'Why would you build a creation museum like that? I mean, this is a world center, and people are going to come from all over the world here. Why would you pick northern Kentucky?'" he says. But AIG's president points out that nearly two-thirds of the U.S. population is within a day's travel of the museum's location. "Actually, northern Kentucky is part of the Greater Cincinnati area," he says, "and the museum property where the facility is being constructed is just two exits west of Cincinnati's international airport. We have a great international airport here. In fact it's a Delta hub."''<ref>Agape Press - Creation Museum Will Show Gospel's Scientific Truth, By Mary Rettig, October 21, 2004[http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/212004f.asp]</ref> I'll let someone else figure out how/if to work this into the article. (And whether 650 miles (BTW not mentioned in this source) is "within a day's travel".)--[[User:Hsmom|Hsmom]] 19:30, 31 May 2007 (EDT) |
| | + | ::::And another, slightly different, from Ham's native Australia: ''The museum's site has been chosen for its strategic location. It is six kilometres from an airline hub, Greater Cincinnati International Airport, and near Florence, Kentucky, headquarters of the Answers in Genesis worldwide ministry. As Ham explains, "One of the main reasons we moved there was because we are within one hour's flight of 69 per cent of America's population."''<ref>Sydney Morning Herald - Onward the new Christian soldier, January 17, 2005 [http://www.smh.com.au/news/Paul-Sheehan/Onward-the-new-Christian-soldier/2005/01/16/1105810774805.html]</ref> --[[User:Hsmom|Hsmom]] 19:36, 31 May 2007 (EDT) |