I love history and jumped at an invitation to go to Old World Wisconsin. I had never heard of this outdoor museum, which provides visitor with a chance to see all kinds of homes, farm and commercial buildings from the 19th century. Old World Wisconsin has brought together a variety of buildings designed and constructed by different ethnic groups, which gives visitors a chance to see what different groups' and classes' homes and fam buildings.
Throughout the site, visitors will find guides in historical dress who offer information on life in Wisconsin more than 100 years ago.
During COVID, visitors are asked to stay one ox length apart and wear masks inside the buildings.
I thoroughly enjoyed this historic spot. Every aspect is well displayed. The staff is hospitable and knowledgeable.
Outside a Pomeranian house
There's a free tram that traverses Old World Wisconsin. It comes every 15 minutes or so and the drivers shared lots of fun facts and were able answer all our questions.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas For this week's Sepia Saturday I thought I'd share photos from my visit to Old World Wisconsin. Last week a friend and I visited this historic site in Eagle, Wisconsin to see it's Christmas festivities. Old World Wisconsin is a place where they've gathered and restored buildings from the 19th Century. In December on the weekend's they're open to show visitors how Christmas was celebrated over 100 years ago. In the town's church, which was the first Catholic church in Milwaukee, visitors could sing carols. The performers read a Christmas passage from a Little House on the Prairie book. They also brought kids up from the audience and they read "The Night Before Christmas." Ready for Christmas morning. This room is set up for a cobweb party. Each guest has a color of string and they have to unravel the string to get to their Christmas gift. I wonder what other kinds of parties they had back then. This l
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The photo above inspired me to find some photos of people riding donkeys. Here's what I found in the Library of Congress archives. Horydczak, Theodor, photographer. Soldier and child. Man in uniform with child riding donkey . United States, None. ca. 1920-ca. 1950. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019677714/. he Ambulance of the Hillmen. American Red Cross nurse at Tirana, Albania, unloading a patient from the mountain ambulance of the hillmen, a donkey. Riding astride a donkey is the smoothest and easiest method of travelling in the rough trails of the mountain country. There are few roads in Albania many miles to the American Red Cross hospitals . Tirana Albania, 1920. [January Date Received] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017671326/. Dalrymple, Louis, Artist. Our Don Quixote / Dalrymple . , 1899. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2012647373/. Pughe, J. S. , Artist. Transformed / J.S. Pughe . , 1904. N.Y.: J. Ott
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