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| Hotel Florence in the Pullman Historic District |
You
may, or may not have noticed not sparkling fresh blog post yesterday. That’s because Kathy and I have hit the road
bumming our way around a Midwestern vacation
We
started close to home checking out sites that one or both of us have never made
it to. First day out—Saturday—after a
late start we made it to the Mexican
Fine Arts Museum in Pilsen and
the magnificent Fountain of Time sculpture
by Lorado Taft on the Midway Plaisance in Hyde Park.
Sunday
we started in the Pullman Historic
District on the city’s far South
Side, a must for any history buff.
Then on to the very impressive DuSable
Museum of African American History and
capped off the day with a stroll through the Prairie Avenue Historic District where George Pullman and his fellow plutocrats
hobnobbed with each other and ostentatiously enjoyed their pilfered
wealth. Then a pleasant drive up to
Wisconsin.
We
overnighted in East Troy so we could
visit the Trolly Museum there and
enjoy the ten mile ride to Mukwonago. But alas, they only run the cars on
weekends and even the museum in the depot was closed. Then it was on to a very full day at Old World Wisconsin in a huge living
history museum operated by the State of
Wisconsin. The best of its kind I have ever seen. Docents are well informed
and always costumed correctly from head to toe including underwear and shoes.
All of the buildings, equipment and furnishings are original and brought from
all over the state representing several ethnic waves of settlement, all in a
wonderful setting. Actually work fields in traditional ways, raise heirloom
crops and livestock, and cook in the kitchens. And a picture perfect day.
Refreshed
after a night near Madison, we are
preparing for a trip to Spring Green and
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin home
and studio and other local sites. After
that plans are fuzzy. We will probably
head back to the Flatlands of Illinois on Thursday.
In
the meantime, posts here will be sporadic at best. I will get up an old Independence Day chestnut for sure.
But
some of you will have to get your history and bloviating fixes elsewhere for a
couple of days.
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| Danish farmstead at Old World Wisconsin |
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