Day 7 started off with an unscheduled stop at the tire place to get a new tire since the patch did not work. That put us off our schedule for the day, but we still took a 200-mile detour to the Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder home. I was really glad we went. Below is the duct tape we got from the tire place to hold the glove compartment closed because something happened to the catch and it won’t stay shut. But, duct tape solves the problem!
We got to the Wilder home just in time for the last tour of the Rock House and then the Farmhouse. The Rock House was built by Rose (their daughter) for a retirement home for her parents in 1928. They lived there for 7 years until Rose moved to New York and then they moved back to their farm house.
The Rock House had neat innovations (big closets with pull out drawers, for example) and was fully electric, something Laura and Almanzo had never had before.
The french windows in the living room were really neat. We couldn’t take any pictures inside, though.
Then we toured the museum and the farm house. The farm house started out as one room and ended up as 10. They added onto it for 17 years. It was left exactly as it was the day Laura died in 1957. It was neat to see all their things, many that Laura and Almanzo had made, set out just the way they had them.
This was the view from their front porch.
The museum was so neat. They had Pa’s fiddle, the lace Ida Brown gave Laura on her wedding day, blouses and dresses and quilts Laura made. Bead work Mary made. Pages from the autograph book Laura got in DeSmet. Her china and depression glass. A tablet that she wrote Plum Creek on. Many, many pictures. It was really cool to see it all.
Sorry this post is a little late. Our hotel in Harrisonburg, MO, outside Kansas City did not have good wifi.
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