Laura Ingalls Wilder Days
Saturday, July 26, 2008 - Sunday, July 27, 2008 10 am-5 pm
It's a whole lot of Laura, at this hands-on celebration drawn from the pages of Laura Ingalls Wilder's On the Banks of Plum Creek. Dress like her, try her games and chores, help do Ma's kitchen jobs or Pa's threshing. There will be a look-a-like pageant at Caldwell Hall at 3 pm, too, and for those without a costume who wish to participate, there are prairie bonnets, aprons and dresses available to purchase at the museum store. And there's a special treat in store for the second day of Laura Days: the Rockford A's Model A Club will bring their historic cars to the site on Sunday, July 27, and will show them to visitors on the Visitor Center Mall. Some will also be touring the museum grounds with their Model As.
New this year: all kinds of animal, people, and steam-powered vintage machines at work. It's the charm of Laura Days plus the excitement of our former Power Exposition event.
Here are some other highlights of the day's activities:
- Caldwell Hall Education Center — making paper stars and the 3 pm look-a-like contest.
- Crossroads Village area — horse treadmill demonstration, Loomer Field; making a button necklace, Benson House; doing laundry outdoors, Hafford House; sampling horehound candy, Thomas General Store; blacksmiting demonstrations, Grotelueschen Blacksmith Shop; shoemaking demonstrations, Sisel Shoe Shop.
- Finn-Dane area — stacking wood, Ketola Farm; inspecting a root cellar, Ketola Root Cellar; pumping and fetching water, Pedersen Farm; jumping in the haystack, Jensen Barn (Pedersen Farm).
- Norwegian area — making the bed and playing Cat's Cradle, Fossebrekke House; using a slate to tell a story and recess activities, Raspberry School; Ring-Around the Rosy — Kvaale Farm.
- German area — washing dishes, Schulz House; baking a cake, Schottler House; sewing on a quilt square, Koepsell House; working steam engine and threshing machine, Schottler Field; oxen at work, throughout the site.
Visit YouTube to view
a one-minute video on Laura Ingalls Wilder Days.
Ticket Info:
Adults $16; children (5-17) $9 (children under 5 are free); students and senior citizens (65 and over) $14; family (two adults and two or more dependent children 5-17) $43. Fees include an all-day tram transportation pass.
Location Info:
Venue: Old World Wisconsin
Old World Wisconsin documents the settlement of 19th- and early 20th-century Wisconsin. It comprises an 1870s crossroads village and 10 ethnic farmsteads located on 576 acres of wooded hills in the Southern Unit of Kettle Moraine State Forest.
S103 W37890 Hwy 67
Eagle, WI
Contact Info:
E-mail: oww@wisconsinhistory.org
Phone: 262-594-6300
Fax: 262-594-6342