Saturday, June 27, 2009

Missouri Part 3: Little House on the Prairie

Well now comes my favorite part of our trip! We got to go to the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum in Mansfield! This is the place that she lived after her and Almanzo were married. Where she wrote the Little House books!! It was sooo cool! I've loved the little house books since the first time I read them! I think I've read about every book you can find about her!LOL


In the museum and the house you are not allowed to take any pictures. We got to see Pa's fiddle, some of the original manuscripts, letters written to her family, and tons more!



The house was so cool! No one has lived in the house after Laura died so everything in the house was exactly how she left it. The calendar hanging on the wall in the kitchen was even open to the month she died in.




Then we went to the house on Rocky Ridge, this was the house that Rose had built for them. She thought the farm house was to much for them to take care of. This is the place that Laura first started to write her books. They later moved back to the farm house.





We went to vist the grave sites of Almanzo, Laura and Rose.








5 comments:

Isabelle said...

Wow, it was so pretty there! Your pictures came out really nice! And I just love that house that Rose had built for them!

Elizabeth H. said...

How cool! That would be pretty awesome to go there.

The Capp Crew said...

So neat Cassie! My mom has read all the books to each of us girls as we were growing up and she has always wanted to take us to see the actual places in the books!

~Mandie

Mrs. A. said...

Cassie, Thank you so much for the pictures. I really missed seeing these and am grateful you gave me a chance to see what the houses looked like. Great pictures. God Bless you. Mrs. Anaya

Stephanie said...

This must have been so neat to see! Thanks for the bookmark! Its really cool! ttyl. :)