Scary, Norman Bates-style stuffed Buffalo (Bison bison, for you sticklers): Scary, decaying mannequin from a mining museum: Scary Honey Wagon (that's a toilet on rails for use by the miners) from the same museum:
if you're ever in moweaqua, illinois...check out the coal mine museum...pretty funky place for such a small town. the explosion halved the town's population on Christmas Eve 1932 http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/moweaqua.htm
I wanted to visit the salt mine in Hutchinson this summer but knew the kids would get bored. http://www.undergroundmuseum.org/index.php
We did drive over to Marquette for the motorcycle museum. I forgot to bring my dang camera but had to keep a four-year-old corralled anyway. http://www.ksmotorcyclemuseum.org/
if you're ever in moweaqua, illinois...check out the coal mine museum...pretty funky place for such a small town. the explosion halved the town's population on Christmas Eve 1932 http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/moweaqua.htm
ReplyDeleteI wanted to visit the salt mine in Hutchinson this summer but knew the kids would get bored. http://www.undergroundmuseum.org/index.php
ReplyDeleteWe did drive over to Marquette for the motorcycle museum. I forgot to bring my dang camera but had to keep a four-year-old corralled anyway.
http://www.ksmotorcyclemuseum.org/
The old saying about catching more flies with honey than vinegar is confirmed here... just in case anyone was -- y'know -- in doubt.
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