We spent today exploring Walnut Grove, MN.
The museum included lots of hands on stuff. Little Bit enjoyed playing in the post office
And bank
Papa explained to Lexie how telephone switch boards worked.
The store was fun to play in too.
I'm not sure what it had to do with Laura Ingalls, but there was a doll collection, including a bunch of Kewpie dolls. My Grammie collected Kewpie dolls.
Lexie loved getting to see a wood cook stove up close. Now she's trying to figure out how to get a chance to actually cook on one.
There was a reconstruction of a dugout at the museum.
Also a house the size of the "big" house Pa borrowed money to build in Walnut Grove. It wasn't very big lol
If a person had the time, there were lots of notebooks of information about people and places. This woman is one of the other people that Laura combined to make up the Nellie Olsen character in her books.
Almanzo's sister Eliza who taught in De Smet.
A replica of the writing desk Laura brought with her from SD to MO.
A little fur cape and muff.
One of Laura's quilts.
There was also a buffalo coat like Pa wore when he waited out the blizzard on the creek bank. I wanted to take a picture of but the reflection on the glass case was too bad.
We also drove out to the dugout site. The creek picture above is from there.
It was smaller than I'd imagined.
We followed a walking trail near the dugout and were eaten alive by mosquitoes but the prairie flowers were pretty.
The church bell that Pa helped pay for was later sold to the Lutheran Church and is still being used so we stopped and took a picture of it. The book says Pa gave $3. The museum said he gave $26!
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