Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, Pepin, Wisconsin

​Friday, 29 July 2016.  Let's see now, where did we leave off with our adventures in Wisconsin.  Oh, yes, Day Two of our wine tasting along the Great River Road (aka Wisconsin State Highway 35).  I'm afraid I'm gonna have to do one of those "flashbacks" that are so popular on TV and in films.  After visiting a winery and cidery on Day One, we stopped in Pepin (also on the GRR) to take a gander at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum located there. The museum is quite small (as museums go) but Lynette remembered the LIW stories from her childhood.  I guess 1st Grade and 3rd Grade teacher (same woman) at Union Gap, WA, elementary, used to read the LIW stories to her classes. Hence the tie-in to our stop in Pepin. In 1996, Pepin became the official starting point of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Highway, which links LIW sites across the upper Midwest.  The LIW museum here features many items Laura and her family would have recognized and recalls the era in which she lived.  Admission was only $5, so took the tour  -- which took us all of an hour, tops. But it was quite interesting (wink, wink) and I ended up taking a lot of pics. So, sit back and enjoy today's blog entry.  Ciao!  

So, this is where we are, in Pepin, WI.  Remember, our campground for the three days we were here was in Nelson, just south of Pepin.

 A shot of the entire museum (minus the replica of the cabin) as it sits on the Great River Road in Pepin.  If I turned 180 degrees, we'd have a beautiful view of the Mississippi River.

 Lynette posing for me in front of the museum, just before we went inside.

 A little bit of history.....

 Lynette posing with a replica of a covered wagon.....

 Isn't there a game like this called "Shut the Box?"

 The type of old dolls that LIW might have played with.  I thought they were kinda cool.

 Lynette posing with typical women's garments for those times...

 Typical stove...

 Kitchen dishes...

 Assortment of whatever...

 My Grandma Heid had one of these.  Believe my sister, Sandi, ended up with it.

 We had one of these growing up.  Wonder how many of today's youth could identify this?

 I call this "Jason's Tools #1".....

...and "#2"