For pioneer day, we went to the historic park in Frisco. They are actually now on the National historic list. Anyway...think, This is the place", only smaller, and
only with cabin buildings and one school. The school house is the visitors office. They had a model train and town built up from 1890. Talk about cute. The kids discovered so many things on the model...the man having a
picnic by the mine, the covered wagon that had fallen into the stream, the stage coach driving through town, by the saloon. It was very cute and I'm sure we spent a good 15 minutes just looking closely at the model.
The lady who runs the place, Simone, was very friendly to the kids. She said Tanith looked like a little German girl..I agree! *GRIN*
Anyway, Simone showed the boys a box full of fur and had them guess which fur was from which animal. They LOVED it. Tanith got really excited about the furs. I made the skunk fur stink on Brennan, which he thought was so funny.
Dallin was wide eyed and full
of amazement as we walked around looking at everything. I loved the old school house desks..I have fond memories of going to a museum in Seattle and sitting at such an exhibit. Neat to see how life turns so your kids experience similar things.
We explored all the different cabins and briefly read the histories, although Brennan and Tanith didn't care that much about those details.
Both boys say their favorite cabin was the Trapper cabin...so many furs and they got to touch more of them.
What a great way to start out Pioneer day by seeing some pioneer history from Summit County.
--Super Angie
2 comments:
I remember you sitting in the old school house, hard to get you to leave.
it was hard to get Tanith to leave too! She loved those chairs.
Funny thing...I remember going with Knut's family to an old German school house and even at 18, I loved those desks...funny.
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