Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Prophetstown State Park

Today we took our first field trip of the school year.  We met up with our homeschooling comrades and enjoyed a day of exploration.
1920 Laundreyette washing machine

Supposedly this machine washes and dries your laundry...or at least dries it enough so that it's ready to be hung on the line.

1920s "cadillac" stove.  Funny how different stoves were 50 years later.  I should really take a picture of my own 1970s "cadillac" stove.

Games from the 20s

Thomas Edison records.  They were round tubes that you put on the machine.  I'd never seen anything like it before.

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What a gorgeous (hot!) walk through the prairie to get to the Indian village.

Council house, such as the one Tecumseh and his brother the Prophet sat in.

Ethan's sure this is a John Deer plow, because the dirt just fell off the blade.

On our way home we stopped by the battlefield.  Unfortunately, due to construction you couldn't get to Prophet's Rock.  Ethan was really hoping to see it, so we'll just have to go again sometime.

At the battlefield they had a small nature center.  This lady was a walking encyclopedia of everything nature related and native to Indiana.  We learned a lot just listening to her for the few minutes we had before leaving for home.

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