Nathan, Teresa, Rachel and I started our Schmeckfest Saturday with Papa Butter and Grandma Shirley at the Eureka Pioneer Museum. This beautiful one-of-a-kind wheat sculpture that celebrates Eureka's title as Wheat Capital of the World is outside the entrance. (For more on Eureka's history, visit this Germans from Russia site.)
Our first stop was a rope making station where they learned how to twist their own 3-strand rope.
The player piano caught all their attention.
Everyone took a ride on the wooden colt (which was also built by the man helping them make rope).
We stopped in the school house. Teresa was most interested in the pens, ink wells in the desks, and handwriting books.
The country church has a very large collection of antique hymn books, most of them in German.
We don't visit the museum every year, but I always enjoy it and so do my kids. There is also a sod house on the grounds, as well as an extensive collection of farm machinery, a fire truck and cars. There is even a jail cell!
They always find something new to interest them, or revisit favorite displays from before.
It's always good to go back home . . . and be reminded of our roots.
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