Ah, finally, a decent internet connection, time to catch up on our recent travels. We left the mountains of Colorado for the cornfields of Nebraska, heading for Minden and the Harold Warp Pioneer Village. Kind of like the movie 'Field of Dreams', it appears that if you clear away part of your cornfield and build something, people will come from miles away to see it. Alright, I know I am stretching it a bit, the movie took place in Iowa and dealt with a baseball diamond, ghosts and Kevin Costner, none of which have anything to do with the Pioneer Village. But hey, they both involve cornfields! There are an amazing amount of artifacts gathered there, which are so well organized and which chronicle man's progress from the settlement of the west to recent times. The village is huge, and it took us hours to go through it, and even then we skipped out on a couple of the buildings housing old farm equipment and vehicles.
http://pioneervillage.org/
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| if you build it, they will come... |
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| 1890's kitchen, just one of many displays of kitchens, bedrooms and living rooms throughout the years |
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| 1950's kitchen |
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| old school merry-go-round, still in use on the grounds |
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| the types of guns used to assassinate presidents (that'l get me on an internet watch list somewhere!) |
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| old school jail cell - and criminals nowadays think they have it bad??? |
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| old-fashioned dentist office, aka torture chamber |
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| a streetcar named desire? |
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| the evolution of the lantern |
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