Leaving Kalispell Montana

Leaving Kalispell Montana
Sabbatical begins

Monday, July 16, 2012

Day 11 DeSmet, SD site of 5 Little House books

 Some of Mattea's favorite books by Laura Ingalls Wilder:

The Shores of Silver Lake
Little Town on the Prairie
The Long Winter
These Happy Golden Years
The First Four Years

We had a severe wind storm here last night.  Storms on the prairie are up close and  personal.  We thought  Lucy might blow over, but she didn't and the storm abated and we went to sleep.

Today we are visiting the museum and touring the buildings.  Laura's school in DeSmet and the Brewster school  replica where she first taught and lived with the settlers.

 Picture of us all in front of the last house Pa Ingalls built for Ma and Caroline (She never really married).  When Pa Ingalls died Caroline and Ma took in boarders to be able to keep the house.
Mattea got to play a replica of Pa's fiddle.  Last building is the Surveyor's house they lived in the winter of On the Shores of Silver Lake.   It was moved to the museum  site.  They set up a discovery
building for kids where Mattea played the teacher.

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