Part VI..Roman Numerals and a ball of twine

The first item on our road trip extravaganza today was heading to Minden, Nebraska, to an enormous collection of pioneer antiques. Pioneer Village is situated on 20 acres, and is ONE man’s personal collection of anything you can imagine. He (Harold Warp) even bought the original school, church, and mercantile store from the town, and during the 1950’s, he had them moved onto this land. He acquired so many originals, from the 1st Ford, to a car that could ride on water, to a bed that Napolean slept in, to the 1st edition of a mimiograph machine. You name it; was there. There were buildings and more buildings that housed a washer from nearly every year, a sewing machine gallery, a television display, and the 1st phone booth. It was endless and absolutely amazing. There are no words that could do this collection justice, and after a while, I just stopped taking pictures, and tried to take it all in. We were there for 4 hours, and we left with sights unseen. Maggie and I were particularly impressed by the orginal schoolhouse, left untouched from the last day school was in session. The collector went to this school as a boy.

There are just too many pictures to post, but hopefully I can get some on fb later, too.

I love these of the kids.

One of my favorite displays was this huge case of pens and pencils that had different company logos on each one. There were thousands. I collect neat pens, too, but I will never do this!

It was a good day, and now we are resting our heads in Manhattan, Kansas, home of Kansas State, and absolutely nothing else. We drove for hours, before stopping here for the night. Nebraska and Kansas are just farmland after farmland. Peaceful, yet mundane. Maggie loves math, and for the past days she has been quizzing Scott and me on Roman numerals. I think I have them down pat! Also, we did stumble on this little jewel, so the endless stretches of highway nothingness were all worth it! Lol The Largest Ball of Twine in the World!