Prairie Village Museum Rugby, North dakota

I decided to check out the Prairie Village Museum right next to my hotel. It doesn't look like much, but it really is awesome. It took me 2 hours to go through it all...worth every penny of the $7 entry fee. It depicts life on the prairie from about the late 1800s to the early 1950's.

As you come into the area you are greeted by the Northern Lights Monument...why you might ask...well we are so far North that you can see these in the winter months.

The village really is just that. It has several buildings full of knick knacks, cars, and farm implements from this period of time...which is pretty cool all by themselves. But there really is an entire prairie village set up that you can enter and even touch most of the stuff inside. All of it period specific. These buildings were moved to this site I believe some time in the 1960s.

I thoroughly enjoyed myself and leisurely strolled though the village...no one to rush or bother me...I literally had the place to myself for a couple of hours.

I talked to the museum director for quite a while and she told me that the place was popular with the tourists but the locals don't come very often that's too bad because this place is a real gem.

I put a lot of time in, in my hotel room and don't do anything after work. So the time I spend on the weekends is important to me and helps keep my sanity. These little excursions really help me survive the loneliness I feel from time to time being away from the woman that I love so dearly...not to mention all of our wonderful children and grandchildren.

While we certainly plan on visiting our family on a pretty regular basis, I hope that you have an opportunity to come and visit us in Rugby too, It is a quaint little area that takes you back to a much simpler time. I think that we will not only survive the next 7-10 years here but probably thrive as well.

Here's to Rugby...our new little Prairie Paradise

Northen Lights Monument...yes we're "that" far North :)

Check out all of these old stove

The original "keyboards" If you don't know your Pica from your Elite...you don't know diddly

The original Kenmore top loader

I love this thing...too funny

This whole place really was a "Prairie Village"

Cool old John Deere Tractors from the 30's and 40's

Old farm implements

Interior of the dining car

Little Lutheran church

Creamery

Those were the days

Just a pinch between your cheek and gum...

Inside of full size Lutheran church

I bet these were a tad drafty in the winter

I heard about this guy when I was a kid...In the Guiness Book of World Records

Who would have thought he was from around here. Those are 12' ceilings

This one is for Will

Can you even imagine!

Wow!!!!!!

Old Pharmacy

General Store

Bank

Lawyer's office

Barber shop

Saloon...the most important building in the village

Old gas station